How to Use walkabout in a Sentence

walkabout

noun
  • Many people gathered to meet the Queen during her walkabout.
  • Eat there or take your treat to go in a walkabout cone.
    Amanda Faison, Outside Online, 6 Jan. 2023
  • But then in the afternoon, when the sun peeked out, the royals stepped out of their cars for a walkabout.
    Karla Adam, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • There will be at least one walkabout and a walk along a cliff overlooking the Irish Sea.
    Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2020
  • The walkabout is a fixture of most royal tours and out-of-town visits, but that wasn't always the case.
    Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 24 Sep. 2018
  • Here's the Duchess of Cambridge on her first-ever walkabout outside the UK.
    Emily Burack, Town & Country, 20 Mar. 2022
  • The walkabout has always been a part of their festivities in the area as well.
    Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 28 Dec. 2022
  • For his first Christmas walkabout, Louis looked adorable in a navy coat with a fur collar, paired with a short suit and knee-high socks.
    Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Dec. 2022
  • If your pet went on an unplanned walkabout, would your neighbors be able to call you or bring them home?
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 7 Jan. 2023
  • One went on a walkabout looking for ewes that took him five miles to the rim of a plateau overlooking Duck Valley.
    Roger Phillips, idahostatesman, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Image The narrator begins to sleep most of the day and sometimes to go on walkabouts while blacked out.
    Dwight Garner, New York Times, 2 July 2018
  • My walkabout ended when a woman found me down by the Merced River.
    National Geographic, 25 Jan. 2016
  • My walkabout ended when a woman found me down by the Merced River.
    Kenneth Brower, National Geographic, 25 Jan. 2016
  • The Duke and Duchess will also go on a short walkabout, enabling them to meet some of the local community for the first time.
    Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Even with a massive crowd of fans, no one handles a walkabout quite like Prince Harry!
    Maura Hohman, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2018
  • Staffers will be on hand to explain the various types, techniques and aging process of the cheese at the walkabout tasting.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 20 June 2022
  • Harry and Meghan will meet the public on a short walkabout to the Homecoming Centre next door.
    Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Officers arrived and helped find the bovine on a walkabout.
    Joan Rusek, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2020
  • While the king was greeting well-wished during a walkabout in York last month, a protester in the crowd threw eggs at both him and Queen Camilla.
    Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Dec. 2022
  • To the crowd’s delight, the king ordered his driver to stop the royal Rolls-Royce for an impromptu walkabout outside the gates.
    Karla Adam, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2022
  • The two Queens' easy rapport had been on display since the start of the state visit, from their joint walkabout with their husbands to checking out the buffet at the dinner.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2023
  • While there, King Charles and Camilla took a walkabout outside the castle gates to view floral tributes and greet the public.
    Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The animal was a 2-year-old from the Jackson County herd out on a walkabout, likely looking for a mate.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The royal pair will then take a short walkabout to greet locals and have lunch with local dignitaries at Chester’s town hall.
    Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 6 June 2018
  • Karen kicks him out, and Harry’s punishment…is a month-long walkabout?
    Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 21 Nov. 2023
  • During the Fiji leg, a walkabout at an open-air market had to be cut short over the excessive numbers that had turned out to see Meghan.
    Max Foster, CNN, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Enjoy the walkabout, and keep fighting the good fight, everybody.
    Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Now the second swell of culinary walkabouts is emerging.
    Nancy Luna, Orange County Register, 8 May 2017
  • Raffle tickets will be available at the walkabout for $100.
    Anna Webb, idahostatesman, 27 Apr. 2017
  • The celebration was complete with a towering cake and mini walkabout by the couple, who were joined by their 9-year-old twins, Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 25 Mar. 2024

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