gallivant
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And I felt that as I watched adults gallivant around with childlike glee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
Deer regularly gallivant into neighborhoods, jumping fences and lounging on front lawns.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 29, 2023
Look at the massive Seville cityscape here, by an unknown painter from around 1660, in which men of lighter and darker skin tones gossip and gallivant on the riverbank as galleons sail by.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
The other besieged children gallivant just as vivaciously, among them Charlie Hodson-Prior as Bruce, Winter Jarrett-Glasspool as Amanda and Rei Yamauchi Fulker as Lavender.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2022
“You know better than to gallivant around wearing corsets and carrying firearms. You’re in your last year! I expect better from students about to graduate.”
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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But even without that recognition, Bailey has captured our hearts in whatever time period, love story or dance number he masterfully gallivants into without a worry.
From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2024
While he gallivants amid his nostalgia-led future, the other three are married with kids.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2018
Meanwhile, our parents, who work long hours, still find the time to clean and do laundry at night and on weekends while he gallivants off to spend all his money and have a good time.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2018
In one of the first scenes of the premiere, Richard accidentally strikes a quadruped Stanford robot as it gallivants across the street in a tip to Google-owned robotics company Boston Dynamics.
From The Verge ● Apr. 25, 2016
Don't think though that I'm so stout-hearted As e'er to jump hedges or dikes, It's simply that after we've started, My "gee" gallivants as it likes.
From Mr. Punch in the Hunting Field by Various
In the week before the Opening Ceremony, he gallivanted around Italy in a jacket with the national slogan on the sleeve: “Go Mongolia.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
The pop star and Chiefs' tight end gallivanted around the world together, and Kelce ended up joining his girlfriend on stage performing at the London Eras Tour date earlier this summer.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2024
Princess Diana gallivanted, and moped, her way across Europe in a succession of designer outfits.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
Eberechi Eze was cute in possession and Patrick van Aanholt gallivanted down the left flank, while Jeffrey Schlupp was busy and Christian Benteke, too, was quietly efficient in attack.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 7, 2020
So Laura was to stay all night, while Deborah gallivanted off to those infernal schools of hers!
From His Family by Poole, Ernest
The life of a superhero lends itself well to gallivanting through galaxies, battling space pirates and star bandits.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
When we catch up with her in the late 1930s, she’s gallivanting around the south of France with her friends, the group blithely unaware of the horrors that await with the rise of Adolf Hitler.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024
The women in “Cold Victory” are Louise Koski and Natalya Bobrova, who remain in Helsinki while their husbands are off gallivanting.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
Elsewhere in the Red Keep, the next generation of Targaryen men are gallivanting about, looking just as ill-suited for leadership as their predecessors.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2022
I forgot my earlier ambivalence, and I blamed Papa for everything: his young woman, his hurting Mama, his cooping me up while he went gallivanting around.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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