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- noun Plural form of
jaunt . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
jaunt .
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Examples
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During my many castle jaunts, I've never once seen a female magician.
Laurenne Sala: The Magic Castle: Ex-Nerds With Birds Laurenne Sala 2011
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Last week she hosted one of her early-AM jaunts in Central Park for Team AOL!
Heidi Klum Hosts A Summer Run In Central Park The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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She worked for Saatchi & Saatchi, the advertising agency, and varied her London social life with "jaunts" to Italy, where she had once lived and been engaged to an Italian who broke her heart but remained a lifelong friend.
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During my many castle jaunts, I've never once seen a female magician.
Laurenne Sala: The Magic Castle: Ex-Nerds With Birds Laurenne Sala 2011
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While we Brits are represented by affable oaf HRH Prince Andrew farting about in business class on Trade Ambassador jaunts, House of Stark has Sean Bean Lord Eddard Stark festooned in 10 raggedy layers of leather and fox fur thundering about on a black charger, growling, "Winter is coming," then lopping off some poor serf's head with a big sword.
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She would try to control her fear, but mostly on these jaunts she'd assert herself.
three for the christmas James Claffey 2011
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Even jaunts to the grandparents, where we were made comfy and treated like royalty, disrupted Mr. F's routines, naps and night sleep -- leaving us more exhausted than before we left.
Brian Gresko: Revisiting the Family Vacation -- With Baby Brian Gresko 2010
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The only chains are on the bicycles of the many cyclists that come in for weekend jaunts from San Antonio and Austin, both about an hour (by car) away.
Pam Grout: Waylon, Willie and the Girls Pam Grout 2010
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Even jaunts to the grandparents, where we were made comfy and treated like royalty, disrupted Mr. F's routines, naps and night sleep -- leaving us more exhausted than before we left.
Brian Gresko: Revisiting the Family Vacation -- With Baby Brian Gresko 2010
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We move around every few weeks to a new destination (with the exception of the winter months when we stay in Bonita Springs, FL for several months in a row, with occasional jaunts on the weekends).
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