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cavort

[kuh-vawrt] / kəˈvɔrt /


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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

Throughout "And Just Like That" LTW has been presented as a modelesque queen who occasionally descends from her luxury digs to cavort with Charlotte.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2023

Grand Park’s Lovers Rock Canoodle and/or cavort with your significant other at this free and family-friendly outing that features live music and DJ sets, a pop-up art gallery, a photo booth and more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2023

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

“Plus watching the Gentry cavort and make fools out of themselves.”

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

Here he applies his rich baritone to the refrains of “Teenage Dream” as his newly invented character, Lance, an uppity French nobleman, cavorts friskily with old flame Angelique.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2022

He cavorts on an Athens rooftop with Greek artist Eleni Mylonas, who is wearing a military-style jacket and a headpiece adorned with a tiny Statue of Liberty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2020

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

Shot in black-and-white, he Dolce Vitas before the Trevi Fountain, cavorts with a clown in Fellini homage.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2018

Hey, you cow-wrastlers!" said a not unpleasant voice, and they turned suspiciously as it continued: "You've shore got to hang up them guns with the hotel clerk while you cavorts around on this range.

From Bar-20 Days by Clarence Edward Mulford

Raw when he needed storm or battle; extra excited when Valkyries cavorted with horses; effusive when emotion took over senses; tender when morality mattered.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, sentenced last year to 25 years in prison for fraud, cavorted with football great Tom Brady and spoke on stage with former President Bill Clinton.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025

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

He was born in Saint Denis, in the shadow of the national stadium, four months after another France team had cavorted around the pitch, soaking up the champagne and adulation.

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2022

The next day at school, I studied Mr. Birkway as he leaped and cavorted about the classroom.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech

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

It has roses on it and maidens cavorting in the glen.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt




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