gambol
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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
This gambol down memory lane may have been necessary for viewers who didn’t see the first movie.
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2020
Mossy walls enclose the garden, and beneath them spreads the farmyard—a dust-dry place to-day wherein a litter of black piglets gambol round their mother.
From A West Country Pilgrimage by Eden Phillpots
“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
Shirley MacLaine, doing her best Gwen Verdon impression, gambols onscreen like a giddy doo-dah, and then she does the same thing in reverse.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 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
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
Snowfoot showed the benefit of the attention she received, and the forgotten family in the Hollow chattered and gamboled in delight at the reappearance among them of their indulgent mistress.
From A Daughter of the Forest by Evelyn Raymond
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
McDonald is game for the high jinks but doesn’t always seem natural gamboling about the stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2025
Suddenly, chimps emerged from the woods, gamboling across the grassy lawn and clambering into the adjoining buildings.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
The donkey also wonderingly observes horses gamboling in a field, glimpsed through the narrow window of a transport van, and tropical fish in a tank in a store window.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2022
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 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
Barcelona may have lost their unbeaten record but they are still gambolling away with La Liga.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2018
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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