gad
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The humor doesn’t so much pop as gad about.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2022
Bernice King’s father gad called Vivian “the greatest preacher who ever lived,” a fierce and influential advocate for social justice.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2021
But do you remember how that face looked in 1992, when the supermodel, shown below, was in her 20s, on the gad at the Park Avenue Armory for a Versace gala, aglitter in ruby sequins?
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2012
Brazil forward Alexandre Pato would rather play for Milan than gad about with England's Brave John Terry at Chelsea.
From The Guardian ● May 11, 2010
In the pasture field the cows were on the gad, and could be seen galloping about with their tails in the air, which made Sir Ector angry.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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The Americas with Simon Reeve is an amiable travelogue in which a dishy documentarian gads about the US.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2019
When the Senate is not sitting, he gads about the country publicizing golf tournaments on public links.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She got disgusted and said, Ye gads, like ABC gum, already been chewed.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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An armful of gads thrown on the still hot embers caused them to blaze up cheerfully and bring her diminished head-gear into sudden prominence as a shadow.
From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas
Scott saw the real meaning of this nonsense, and read - With springalds, stones, and gads o' airn.
From Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy by Lang, Andrew
One was back in the city, on the evening of a reporter’s visit, to be followed the next day by a conference where he gadded about with John Legend.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2015
So while Johann I gadded about, Johann II composed and practiced the organ in church.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Mrs. Ogletree even primped her boy Georgie, whom she’d gadded up in a green velvet Little Lord Fauntleroy suit.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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John came home early, Meg gadded no more, and that greatcoat was put on in the morning by a very happy husband, and taken off at night by a most devoted little wife.
From Little Women by Alcott, Louisa May
They idled, fiddled, danced, gabbled, gadded and gossiped.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists by Hubbard, Elbert
But with the big night in sight there's no more time for gadding about.
From BBC ● May 15, 2019
It has been a good twenty-five years since they would have been arrested, or shot, just for gadding about in joy on the river, as they are now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2015
The other half of the year, when we’re not gadding about, Cosima cooks for us at her place.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2015
Hockney, an Englishman who loves opera and long designed opera sets, is reading more and gadding about less.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2015
“You re just the person we need, Mary Poppins. My wife’s off gadding, and I’m left to sit on the eggs. Do take a turn, there’s a good girl. I need a little rest.”
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
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