Example Sentences

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Impressionism has lost its power to surprise; it’s hard to feel shocked about Manet’s nude picnicker when you’ve seen Carolee Schneemann’s work.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 20, 2018

Yet another picnicker, thinking it was boys firing blanks, shouted: “Stop fooling around, or someone will get hurt!”

From Newsweek

COLIC: colicky frolic: frolicked, frolicker, frolicking GARLIC: garlicky mimic: mimicked, mimicking panic: panicked, panicking, panicky picnic: picnicked, picnicker, picnicking POLITICS: politicker, politicking traffic: trafficked, trafficker, trafficking playwright.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

But "Bed-bug Brown," perennial picnicker, was not a scientific sleuth.

From Forty-one Thieves A Tale of California by Hall, Angelo

Scotty inspected the place where the rain had washed the topsoil away, probably because some careless picnicker had ruined the grass in that spot.

From The Blue Ghost Mystery by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)