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gambol

[gam-buhl] / ˈgæm bəl /


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Specifically, the eye-popping assemblages that greeted Kamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, in last week’s getting-to-you know gambol through battleground states.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2024

"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

Selections from Debussy gambol and ruminate; Higdon’s “Secret and Glass Gardens” moves from a guarded interiority to brash, attention-grabbing declarations.

From New York Times Nov. 23, 2021

Say, you're going to pay for your gambol, my friend.

From The Way of the Strong by Ridgwell Cullum

“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

As the astronauts finished their scientific work — and their gambols — they planted an American flag on the moon.

From Washington Post May 26, 2018

Where be your gibes now, your gambols, your songs? jimmy snyder.

From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer

In the gaps between planes, Mr. Dyer photographed a small herd of horses that gamboled around the field, stopping occasionally to rub their noses on the hood of his truck.

From New York Times Feb. 18, 2022

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

By her side walked the beautiful Argus, as a faithful friend; while the most lovely birds fluttered, and the most lovely beasts of the forest gamboled around her.

From Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various

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

For California’s governor, who loves gamboling on a national stage, the whole evening was a lark.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 1, 2023

There’s a gamboling quality in the dense first figures.

From New York Times Feb. 17, 2021

Up ahead I noticed a deer gamboling in the grass.

From Washington Post Oct. 8, 2020

And where earlier series featured grown humans gamboling in costume, the new one is made as puppet animation, the most magical of animated mediums.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2019

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

Thiago Alcantara, while back gambolling on the training ground grass, will not.

From The Guardian Oct. 22, 2021

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

"Don't you think, George, that a few sheep, with lambs gambolling about, would make the fields look furnished?" one duchess suggested to her butler, who obediently provided the requisite livestock the following morning.

From The Guardian Mar. 25, 2013

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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