gad

The humor doesn’t so much pop as gad about.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2022

Bernice King’s father gad called Vivian “the greatest preacher who ever lived,” a fierce and influential advocate for social justice.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2021

The pair gad from location to location with a cheery boisterousness.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2013

But do you remember how that face looked in 1992, when the supermodel, shown below, was in her 20s, on the gad at the Park Avenue Armory for a Versace gala, aglitter in ruby sequins?

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2012

In the pasture field the cows were on the gad, and could be seen galloping about with their tails in the air, which made Sir Ector angry.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

The Americas with Simon Reeve is an amiable travelogue in which a dishy documentarian gads about the US.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2019

When the Senate is not sitting, he gads about the country publicizing golf tournaments on public links.

From Time Magazine Archive

She got disgusted and said, Ye gads, like ABC gum, already been chewed.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Presently the greater of Will’s two ricks approached completion, and all the business of thatch and spar gads and rush ropes began.

From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

So, for a week we climbed the mountain, laden with picks, drills, gads, crowbars, shovels, cans of blasting powder and coils of fuse and strove with might and main.

From Roughing It, Part 3. by Mark Twain

One was back in the city, on the evening of a reporter’s visit, to be followed the next day by a conference where he gadded about with John Legend.

From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2015

So while Johann I gadded about, Johann II composed and practiced the organ in church.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Ogletree even primped her boy Georgie, whom she’d gadded up in a green velvet Little Lord Fauntleroy suit.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

Some months ago he had even ventured to tell her that he thought she gadded about a bit too much!

From Love and hatred by Marie Belloc Lowndes

The way you gadded around over the hills with him—a perfect stranger—was disgraceful; perfectly disgraceful.

From Her Prairie Knight by B. M. Bower

But with the big night in sight there's no more time for gadding about.

From BBC ● May 15, 2019

Our usual presenter Max Rushden was gadding about in Italy this week, so Melissa Rudd was in the Big Chair for this week’s episodes of Football Weekly.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2018

It has been a good twenty-five years since they would have been arrested, or shot, just for gadding about in joy on the river, as they are now.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2015

The other half of the year, when we’re not gadding about, Cosima cooks for us at her place.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2015

“Hold your tongue, you disrespectful old bird! And, Jo, you’d better go at once. It isn’t proper to be gadding about so late with a rattlepated boy like...”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott