How to Use gregarious in a Sentence

gregarious

adjective
  • She is outgoing and gregarious.
  • 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
  • Jack was gregarious and the life of the party, with a keen mind and broad smile.
    Orlando Sentinel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • For the gregarious Biles, that meant more time alone with her thoughts.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The gift to the city was made by a gregarious bar owner named James Osborne.
    Paul Dorpat, The Seattle Times, 10 May 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • The polite young man with the gregarious smile complied.
    Holly Yan, CNN, 9 Oct. 2022
  • The mood was light, cute, with much gregarious chuckling.
    Phillip MacIak, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Taken as a whole there was a tilt toward the gregarious.
    Cullen Murphy, vanityfair.com, 3 Aug. 2017
  • Magee — a gregarious, fast-talking bear of a guy with sandy brown hair and a mustache — is wearing a black-and-gray chef’s coat.
    Jill Wendholt Silva, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Greg Loyd is gregarious, seems to always be smiling and loves to talk.
    Jeannie Roberts, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2022
  • Obloy and Kochmit are gregarious fellows who roll with the punches.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 24 Mar. 2020
  • David Jackson, the gregarious, well-loved concierge, was not.
    Juliana Feliciano Reyes, Philly.com, 3 May 2018
  • Herrera is gregarious, and prone to talking about her work in the language of blessings and prayers.
    Marcella Bombardieri, The Atlantic, 30 May 2018
  • Safe in the shell of his ego, my father was gregarious, and generous.
    Debra Kamin, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2021
  • There’s a pretty patio out front and on the side and a gregarious dining room indoors.
    Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 15 July 2021
  • Each of these is a mere two-set fight, and, finally, Toby’s father is again the gregarious host of old.
    Han Ong, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • A month later, one of my gregarious boys stopped speaking for days.
    Nicole Mann Novick, Glamour, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Brosnan says Chan was full-on gregarious around the movie's London set.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 26 June 2017
  • 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
  • Philippe, who at 32 might be called a gregarious introvert, takes a pause.
    Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Expect lots of face time with the gregarious chef and great attention to detail.
    Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
  • In line ahead of him was Juana Torres, a gregarious woman in her fifties and the matron at Ospina’s church.
    Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 22 May 2021
  • Wright is a gregarious guide, happy to answer questions like: What is a haint?
    Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The gregarious host of The Burger Show serves up his fool-proof method for making a perfect patty this summer.
    Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • Three bottles of wine were consumed and the two, both gregarious anyway, chatted for hours.
    New York Times, 3 Dec. 2021
  • My mom is loud and gregarious, while my dad is an introvert.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Richardson is friendly and gregarious; Miles is shyer, and it’s sometimes hard to hear him at all.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021

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