gambol
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"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
Together, they gambol like the stags in the poem.
From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2022
Painted pigs gambol in green fields by meandering streams under blue, cloud-studded skies happily oblivious of the fate that awaited them within.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2022
They belong to France; their game is the gambol of the exuberance of French genius.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various
“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
He utters it with a sort of charmed appreciation, as if he’s just remembered a unicorn that sometimes gambols on the South Lawn.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 1, 2018
Your gambols, your songs — your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2016
Where be your gibes now, your gambols, your songs? jimmy snyder.
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
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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
He gamboled and capered, he zoomed and zigzagged, he essayed quick, climbing spirals and almost came to grief among the tangled pinnacles on the ridge of the hogback.
From Master of the Moondog by Mullen, Stanley
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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The dire wolves known to paleontologists, however, are different from the creatures that can now be viewed in Colossal videos gamboling in an open field.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025
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
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
The Co-ordinator’s ruddy glass reflected, in miniature, the discreet gamboling of the flame, and, in even further miniature, it was reflected in each of his brooding pupils.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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Barcelona may have lost their unbeaten record but they are still gambolling away with La Liga.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2018
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
That’s a big ask, as you’ll know if you’ve ever defrosted a lamb chop and hoped to see it gambolling round the garden.
From The Guardian ● May 25, 2016
The gambolling creatures we habitually count to get to sleep are recast as necrotic nightmares, a World War Z-style rolling wave of bad baa juju.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2016
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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