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gambol

[gam-buhl] / ˈgæm bəl /


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Her puppies gambol around her, looking healthy and excited, but everyone else seems momentarily stunned by this story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2023

"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

He/it/whatever is sheathed in a bilious hazmat yellow and sports four arachnid legs that gambol like an over-caffeinated member of a marching band.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2021

Give me a willow wand and I, With hide and cork and twine, From century to century Will gambol round my Shrine.

From An Almanac of Twelve Sports by Rudyard Kipling

“Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs?”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2022

Virginia Woolf described his masterpiece, “Hydriotaphia,” a survey of funerary customs, as “a cathedral where the organ goes plunging and soaring and indulging in vast and elephantine gambols of awful yet grotesque sublimity.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2020

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

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

Leaping Creek gamboled its tortuous way through the heart of a perfect garden.

From The Law-Breakers by Ridgwell Cullum

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

Kittens In Manhattan, two kittens gambolled around a gas jet, turned it on.

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

McDonald is game for the high jinks but doesn’t always seem natural gamboling about the stage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2025

With trees swaying in the gentle breeze and birds and butterflies gamboling in the setting sun, it would be foolish not to fall into sportive line.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024

Under a cobalt October sky, picnic tables, dogs on leashes, gamboling children.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2022

Today they share their home with a puppy named Popcorn who loves gamboling about the green space.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2021

The walls bore the same ornamental plates, each featuring a highly colored, beribboned kitten, gamboling and frisking with sickening cuteness.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

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

BST07:55 9 min: Spurs attack on the break, with Harry Kane gambolling down the right flank.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2015

Temmer, in fact, looks almost hysterical, as though a herd of puppies with bows on are gambolling straight towards her.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 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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