How to Use bon vivant in a Sentence

bon vivant

noun

• In addition to being a renowned travel writer, he was a bon vivant who loves to hold dinner parties and serve exquisite, elaborate meals.
• These days, most flâneurs are not bons vivants in top hats.
  — Stephanie Rosenbloom, New York Times, 19 June 2023
• Like the city itself, the food has an inimitable bon vivant spirit.
  — Tracey Teo, ajc, 21 July 2022
• Charles Finch, the film producer, brand builder and bon vivant, didn’t know him, either.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 22 July 2019
• Sachs, the oldest sibling, has been filming her bon vivant dad for decades.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2021
• Don Artemio was an author born in Saltillo in 1884 who became a bon vivant and a gourmand.
  — Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2022
• Even in the bon vivant capital of the world, the gravity of the current state of things could be felt throughout Paris Fashion Week.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2020
• Her bon vivant father had been the founder of a large British publishing firm, Pergamon Press.
  — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2021
• Tanya quickly falls in with bon vivant Quentin and his crew of sycophants and hunky, errr, relatives.
  — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 9 Dec. 2022
• Its founder, a bon vivant who once dated the widowed first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, held all the strings, and pulled them in ways that Mr. Kohn often disliked.
  — Fred A. Bernstein, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2023
• Before his brothers were killed, Ted Kennedy was the third wheel — a rude, ruddy bon vivant in contrast to the austere Bobby and polished Jack.
  — Dan Zak, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• There’s director and bon vivant Paul Feig, the focus of The Answers this month; another who does things his way and looks good doing it.
  — Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2023
• The ceiling was to be shared by a bon vivant, learned cardinal with a select audience of like-minded men.
  — Monika Schmitter, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2023
• This tailor in Manhattan is the definition of the bon vivant.
  — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 29 May 2015
• In one instant, bon vivant Hugo (Brian Mackey), the host of a midsummer night’s fete, is exiting stage left.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2019
• He’s proprietor, bon vivant and observer of life’s comedies and tragedies.
  — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2021
• In his search for collaborators (who are being shot by a firing squad in the street), Piller tracks down Van Meegeren, an erstwhile artist, art dealer and bon vivant.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2020
• Friends described him as a bon vivant and a generous colleague who once paid to have apartments built for secretaries at his law practice.
  — New York Times, 27 Aug. 2019
• His father was his usual bon vivant self, Bert remembers.
  — CNN, 29 Mar. 2020
• Kohn was previously cooking at Scala’s Bistro, part of a large group of hotels and restaurants, and found DuVall’s bon vivant lifestyle difficult to get used to at first.
  — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 9 Nov. 2020
• Part of the international jet set and known as a bon vivant, Gianni started his career on Wall Street but made his name as a nightlife impresario.
  — Georgina Schaeffer, Town & Country, 4 Sep. 2013
• In it the gay African-American of the title lounges in a Chelsea Hotel penthouse, relating outlandish tales about his past as a hustler, houseboy, cabaret performer, bon vivant, and skid row derelict.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• Lest onlookers carp that a bunch of bon vivants have wrecked the joint, Rosen insists that respect for design, architecture, and good food underscores the effort.
  — Gabe Ulla, Town & Country, 9 Aug. 2017
• Gathered on the twenty-eighth floor of the Peninsula were more guests–a mix of journalists, ticketholders, and general bon vivants–than could pass through his tiny restaurant over three or four nights.
  — Jason Tesauro, Esquire, 7 Dec. 2017
• As an irritable bon vivant who mainlined jazz and cocaine to sing lullabies like a cherub in a Tiepolo painting, David Crosby made no sense.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023
• Murray walks around carrying his own bon vivant spotlight.
  — Armond White, National Review, 23 Oct. 2020
• David Anthony Smith is brilliant as Andrew Wyke, a bon vivant, game loving, whiskey swilling, mystery writer of a certain age.
  — Laura Demarco, cleveland, 21 Feb. 2020
• The family’s elder statesman and Godfather, now in his eighties, was still active and dominant, a bon vivant whom no one could suppress.
  — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• Gwynne, a scion of the Vanderbilt family and brother to the notorious socialite Kiki Preston, was a bon vivant with a literary bent.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019
• But now there’s molten-honey lighting, curvaceous banquettes ideal for table-hopping, and walls adorned with whimsical murals of bons vivants in various states of lust and play.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024