How to Use gregarious in a Sentence

gregarious

adjective
  • She is outgoing and gregarious.
  • Jack was gregarious and the life of the party, with a keen mind and broad smile.
    Orlando Sentinel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • There are the pregame chest bumps in the hallway, when the loud, gregarious winger ramps up for the game.
    New York Times, 22 Dec. 2021
  • For the gregarious Biles, that meant more time alone with her thoughts.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The polite young man with the gregarious smile complied.
    Holly Yan, CNN, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Taken as a whole there was a tilt toward the gregarious.
    Cullen Murphy, vanityfair.com, 3 Aug. 2017
  • The mood was light, cute, with much gregarious chuckling.
    Phillip MacIak, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The gift to the city was made by a gregarious bar owner named James Osborne.
    Paul Dorpat, The Seattle Times, 10 May 2017
  • My mom had been a theater major in college and my dad was always the most gregarious person in the room.
    Marc Myers, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Expect lots of face time with the gregarious chef and great attention to detail.
    Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Herrera is gregarious, and prone to talking about her work in the language of blessings and prayers.
    Marcella Bombardieri, The Atlantic, 30 May 2018
  • There’s a pretty patio out front and on the side and a gregarious dining room indoors.
    Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 15 July 2021
  • A month later, one of my gregarious boys stopped speaking for days.
    Nicole Mann Novick, Glamour, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Safe in the shell of his ego, my father was gregarious, and generous.
    Debra Kamin, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2021
  • My mom is loud and gregarious, while my dad is an introvert.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Greg Loyd is gregarious, seems to always be smiling and loves to talk.
    Jeannie Roberts, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2022
  • But the new cartoon Daniel Tiger is a gregarious cub always up for a fun playdate and a good song.
    David G. Allan, CNN, 8 June 2018
  • Ochi described herself as a gregarious tomboy who loved sports and never took no for an answer.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2021
  • The gregarious man at the farmer’s market fruit stand, who asks about my family in the U.S.
    Colleen De Bellefonds, SELF, 28 Apr. 2020
  • His devotees are less like fans than members of a colorful cult of gregarious fun-lovers.
    Bill Brownlee, kansascity, 20 May 2018
  • Three bottles of wine were consumed and the two, both gregarious anyway, chatted for hours.
    New York Times, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Sipowicz at his most gregarious spoke in a kind of gutter poetry.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Obloy and Kochmit are gregarious fellows who roll with the punches.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Liked by everyone and loved by those closest to him for his gregarious and selfless nature.
    sun-sentinel.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • But even the gregarious Pratt might be envious of these young friends, who get to attend red carpets as a squad.
    Hilary Weaver, Vanities, 9 Jan. 2017
  • Mercury’s entrance to gregarious Leo gives a boost to your social life!
    USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
  • Wright is a gregarious guide, happy to answer questions like: What is a haint?
    Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 2023
  • People who know her call her sweet, gregarious and grounded.
    Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 29 June 2021
  • Met folk, pled despair, and bummed cigarettes from the gregarious.
    David Jefferys, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Jan. 2018
  • David Jackson, the gregarious, well-loved concierge, was not.
    Juliana Feliciano Reyes, Philly.com, 3 May 2018

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