gambol
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Her puppies gambol around her, looking healthy and excited, but everyone else seems momentarily stunned by this story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2023
"They are dying so that you can gambol in your redwood cabinets," he said while addressing the government.
From BBC ● May 5, 2023
Concerns about health, safety and inclusion are driving new trends in the annual gambol of ghouls and goblins.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
In “Homecomings,” Heaney describes returning home, where he watches a sand martin gambol along a riverbank.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2022
As they approached they were greeted by the barking of a dog, and a brown setter ran out to gambol about Adrian.
From The White Crystals Being an Account of the Adventures of Two Boys by Howard Roger Garis
“Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs?”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
What’s left is a shimmering sensibility that gambols freely in a new age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2019
Shirley MacLaine, doing her best Gwen Verdon impression, gambols onscreen like a giddy doo-dah, and then she does the same thing in reverse.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2018
Then there’s Indy, who gambols around like a large Labrador puppy.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2015
Though others roared at Bear’s antics, this young man took offense at Bear’s gambols and, with growing anger, made three attempts to snatch his mazer back.
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
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Three dogs gamboled about as Kristof, whose curly hair is graying, spoke during the interview in a shed.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2022
They squawked and gamboled for the Chicken Shack dance cam.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2021
She gamboled along to the music on Cannon Green behind the iconic Nassau Hall and screeched with glee.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2021
Here, in the salad years, the movie greats gamboled … Laurel and Hardy, W.C.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 30, 2020
It was a time when rabbits gamboled, when mockingbirds sang by moonlight and all the world turned young.
From Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp by Dane Coolidge
Just before the hour the new man took possession on the left and gambolled across halfway, swaying mesmerically inside two challenges before exploding into a drive which crashed in off the bar.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2017
"My family seem incredibly relaxed with me," he purred, as two cubs gambolled nearby.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2013
But having been thrown a bone by his manager, Torres gambolled exuberantly after it, impressing with his work rate and movement in and around the box.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2011
In the laboratory broadcasters moved, talked, sang, and in regimented waves their actions and sounds gambolled over the radio to the sight & hearing of the home audiences.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In the ecstasy of that thought they gambolled round and round, they hurled themselves into the air in great leaps of excitement.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
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He is currently gamboling around my feet while our older dog, Koda, looks on with a combination of suspicion and hope, like he can’t quite believe what he’s seeing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2024
For California’s governor, who loves gamboling on a national stage, the whole evening was a lark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
She smiled approvingly at the gamboling dogs, the sweating men, the woman who had arrived for a constitutional in high heels and full makeup.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
Reports spread across the Internet of long-haired mountain goats gamboling through a town in Wales, jackals crowding a park in Tel Aviv and pumas venturing into residential neighborhoods in Santiago, Chile.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2021
It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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And, if you dig the ship, check out the mother—the queen of the meanies, who rolls up late in the show, gambolling across salt flats toward a school bus full of innocent children.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 27, 2016
BST07:55 9 min: Spurs attack on the break, with Harry Kane gambolling down the right flank.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2015
Temmer, in fact, looks almost hysterical, as though a herd of puppies with bows on are gambolling straight towards her.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2013
The film provides a fascinating history lesson in the guise of backstage drama, honeycombed with antique-looking TV commercials full of Lycra-clad dancers and gambolling mimes.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2012
I leaned back in the embrasure in a more comfortable position, so that I could enjoy more fully the aërial gambolling.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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