Example Sentences

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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 Phillpotts, Eden

At Axim I split off by gads and wedges a large slice of the grooved rocks described by Burton; it came home with me, and is now lodged in the British Museum.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir