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gambol

[gam-buhl] / ˈgæm bəl /


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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

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

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

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

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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