gambols
Example Sentences
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When he collapses into a crumpled heap of disjointed limbs, or gambols triumphantly to a playground refrain, his figure demonstrates operatic feeling with delicate precision.
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2023
“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
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
