cavort
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Once that stops, the sheep open their eyes and cavort around happily as if nothing had happened.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
The very first Christmas single is definitely scripted, but there’s still ample room for the four Beatles to cavort.
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2025
Barbie dolls cavort in the office and trendy persons fill the motel’s Barbara bar.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
According to an indictment, he said he liked to cavort with inmates because, given their lack of power, they couldn’t “ruin him.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2022
As I got used to the indignity and the smell, I saw the raccoons cavort around my fireplace and dodge past me.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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With some deft, haunting touches in the lighting by Brad King and illusions by Skylar Fox, the cast cavorts grandly on Maruti Evans’s leafy suburban set.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023
The musical cavorts atop your screen as a short course in digital ingenuity and a hectic sprint through a major government screw-up — less deep state than dope state.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2020
He cavorts on an Athens rooftop with Greek artist Eleni Mylonas, who is wearing a military-style jacket and a headpiece adorned with a tiny Statue of Liberty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2020
Chad Kelderman is deliciously ridiculous as Olivia’s pompous major-domo Malvolio, and Eric Ray Anderson gleefully cavorts as the sly party dog Sir Toby Belch.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2019
Up goes his head and tail, he buck jumps, cavorts, gambols, kicks up his heels, bounds stiff-legged, and generally performs like an irresponsible infant.
From The Land of Footprints by White, Stewart Edward
Raw when he needed storm or battle; extra excited when Valkyries cavorted with horses; effusive when emotion took over senses; tender when morality mattered.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, sentenced last year to 25 years in prison for fraud, cavorted with football great Tom Brady and spoke on stage with former President Bill Clinton.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025
On “the beach”—an open stretch of snow between the parking lot and the lifts—skiers cavorted over pony kegs and hibachi grills.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2023
While her husband cavorted with Maurice Chevalier and members of the Beach Boys, Ms. Keane painted 16 hours a day in a locked room.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2022
Myrish carpets covered the floor instead of rushes, and in one comer a hundred fabulous beasts cavorted in bright paints on a carved screen from the Summer Isles.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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But Mr. Lithgow’s performance is infused with a sneaky playfulness evoking the “broken boy,” as Jessie puts it, still cavorting in the hulk of an elderly man.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
The challenge for Democrats is that the district doesn’t just resemble Behn’s Nashville-based turf that features hipsters rolling their eyes at bachelorette parties cavorting on pedal bars.
From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2025
The official trailer for the sequel shows the chirpy red-capped Italian plumber cavorting with his friends and nemeses in a colourful intergalactic universe.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
The three-judge panel found that even though the dangers of cavorting with wild animals for a public show were understood, SeaWorld should have done more to protect its human performers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025
When he got out, Hare looked back and saw that the water was badly muddied from where he had been cavorting.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
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