skylarking

Example Sentences

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He chalked up the incident as “a case where the skylarking and tomfoolery in an employment context has gone awry.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2023

He told the court this was a case of "skylarking and tomfoolery" that had "gone awry".

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2023

“Showers of rice” were thrown by “the jolly young people who had been skylarking the afternoon away in the White House,” the New York Times reported.

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2022

Tough as CAB proposes to be with civilian offenders, it lacks power to deal with the parallel problem of skylarking Army pilots.

From Time Magazine Archive

Finally Tad rode his pony forward, right through the fire of the skylarking cowboys.

From The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze by Patchin, Frank Gee