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cavort

[kuh-vawrt] / kəˈvɔrt /


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Once that stops, the sheep open their eyes and cavort around happily as if nothing had happened.

From Salon May 17, 2026

The very first Christmas single is definitely scripted, but there’s still ample room for the four Beatles to cavort.

From Salon Dec. 23, 2025

Barbie dolls cavort in the office and trendy persons fill the motel’s Barbara bar.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2025

According to an indictment, he said he liked to cavort with inmates because, given their lack of power, they couldn’t “ruin him.”

From Seattle Times Nov. 28, 2022

So Magdalys mostly had to be content with watching the great beasts cavort along outside her window: The lamplighter’s iguanodons would pass first thing in the morning, extinguishing the lanterns as the day broke.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

With some deft, haunting touches in the lighting by Brad King and illusions by Skylar Fox, the cast cavorts grandly on Maruti Evans’s leafy suburban set.

From Washington Post Apr. 20, 2023

Here, nearly every character in the movie cavorts among aisles of Hi-C, Doritos and Ritz Crackers while Driver and Gerwig pull boxes from the shelves with Busby Berkeley-level precision.

From New York Times Sep. 1, 2022

‘Laurel and Hardy on the Streets of Los Angeles’ It’s all about location, location, location as the legendary comedy duo capers and cavorts in three classic shorts shot right here in SoCal.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2022

Chad Kelderman is deliciously ridiculous as Olivia’s pompous major-domo Malvolio, and Eric Ray Anderson gleefully cavorts as the sly party dog Sir Toby Belch.

From Seattle Times Jul. 17, 2019

Up goes his head and tail, he buck jumps, cavorts, gambols, kicks up his heels, bounds stiff-legged, and generally performs like an irresponsible infant.

From The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White

Heidegger’s noble guests cavorted as milkmaids, chimney sweeps, gypsies, “Indian kings” and even a “nude” Adam wearing a body stocking and fig leaves.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

On “the beach”—an open stretch of snow between the parking lot and the lifts—skiers cavorted over pony kegs and hibachi grills.

From Slate Dec. 20, 2023

While her husband cavorted with Maurice Chevalier and members of the Beach Boys, Ms. Keane painted 16 hours a day in a locked room.

From Washington Post Jun. 29, 2022

As Ford sped forward, a sea of red-coated musicians cavorted and pranced across the south end of the field, foraying past the 20-yard line.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 19, 2021

Vervet monkeys cavorted as much as their larger cousins, and the babies of both species occasionally joined in play.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

When Hollywood beckoned, the boys answered the call, cavorting, cutting up and reconfiguring reality on the silver screen.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

On view were hastily brushed, large canvases of musketeers, toreadors, atelier scenes and cavorting couples.

From The Wall Street Journal May 7, 2026

The challenge for Democrats is that the district doesn’t just resemble Behn’s Nashville-based turf that features hipsters rolling their eyes at bachelorette parties cavorting on pedal bars.

From Slate Dec. 2, 2025

The official trailer for the sequel shows the chirpy red-capped Italian plumber cavorting with his friends and nemeses in a colourful intergalactic universe.

From Barron's Nov. 13, 2025

Small tears in skirts are stitched over with embroidery in the shape of leaves and pomegranates and—on one—a cavorting fox.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black




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