gad
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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
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
Brazil forward Alexandre Pato would rather play for Milan than gad about with England's Brave John Terry at Chelsea.
From The Guardian ● May 11, 2010
"By gad, I'll have my lawyers on to her for this! I'll make her pay through the nose!"
From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
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
One can't suppose that he's rich enough to fling all his salary to an understudy while he gads.
From The Lightning Conductor Discovers America by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
Black billets in the arms of Delves of Cheshire stand for “delves” of earth and the gads of steel in the arms of the London Ironmongers’ Company took a somewhat similar form.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
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
Though I have seen a great deal, though I have gadded about a great deal, I have experienced comparatively little.
From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various
Then gadded away their busy thoughts to the Thanksgiving dinner, Visioning good things to come.
From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Lydia Howard Sigourney
Not exactly the boys of 1888, those 22 Lions pioneers who spent eight months gadding about New Zealand and Australia playing 35 games, but a fair old trip none the less.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025
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
Hockney, an Englishman who loves opera and long designed opera sets, is reading more and gadding about less.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2015
“You re just the person we need, Mary Poppins. My wife’s off gadding, and I’m left to sit on the eggs. Do take a turn, there’s a good girl. I need a little rest.”
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
