hopping

Example Sentences

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Between his alternate gobblings and hoppings and gaspings for breath, the old gentleman must have come perilously close to his inevitable apoplexy.

From The Wayfarers by Snaith, J. C.

The Babe's weight, slight as it was, on the outer end, together with his occasional ecstatic, though silent, hoppings up and down, had little by little sufficed to slip the haphazard mooring.

From Children of the Wild by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

Louise had, after many hoppings about in solitude, actually managed to master five folk-dances.

From Winona of the Camp Fire by Widdemer, Margaret

And wherein differ thy leapings from the hoppings of a frog, or the bouncings of a goat, or friskings of a dog, or gesticulations of a monkey?

From Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Scott, Walter, Sir

Let the stick be the outstanding hero, the D'Artagnan of the group, full of queer gestures and hoppings about.

From The Art of the Moving Picture by Lindsay, Vachel