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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

In “Homecomings,” Heaney describes returning home, where he watches a sand martin gambol along a riverbank.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2022

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

Then there’s Indy, who gambols around like a large Labrador puppy.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2015

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

Beside them, the once-fierce dog gamboled like a puppy, hoping for another handout.

From The Pirates of Shan by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

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

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

Suddenly, chimps emerged from the woods, gamboling across the grassy lawn and clambering into the adjoining buildings.

From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2023

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

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

From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2015

"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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