[ UK /sˈɔːntɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈsɔntɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a careless leisurely gait
    he walked with a kind of saunter as if he hadn't a care in the world
  2. a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
VERB
  1. walk leisurely and with no apparent aim
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How To Use saunter In A Sentence

  • I sauntered past, my eyes on that seething face. Times, Sunday Times
  • Still breathing heavy from her brisk, morning jog, she sauntered into the kitchen for a bottle of water.
  • Sauntering over, he saw that they were inspecting the wares of a very nervous jerboa vegetable seller. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
  • In my Virginia hometown, people perambulated when they could not drive at a pace somewhere between a saunter and a stroll. The Infuriating Smartphone Saunter
  • A few birds cheeped in bird innocence, but that was the only sound as the man sauntered toward that purse like some tough sheriff in a Western, though then again, maybe it was just the leather chaps, well, chapping, that made him walk that way. The Six Rules of Maybe
  • As opposed to the guy who sits in the same spot every day asking for a hand-out, the bum [from the German for "saunter"] roams freely throughout the city, the country, the planet: He is king of the road. Boing Boing
  • She sauntered in fifteen minutes late.
  • Yet since its 2006 float, the share price has been on a leisurely saunter. Times, Sunday Times
  • Frequently he slid out from behind the pulpit and sauntered along the aisle as he spoke.
  • At a decent interval later, twice-divorced Whoopi, 43, would saunter out, like any other unattached lady guest.
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