curvet

Example Sentences

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Elizabeth's Winston, pestered by a swarm of thunder flies, began to curvet alarmingly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tigers walk treadmills, horses curvet superbly and Harry Rittely sits atop seven tables and topples over backwards.

From Time Magazine Archive

A low whinny and something like a suppressed curvet was Dick's reply, and it was followed by a sharp exclamation.

From The Red Mustang by Stoddard, William O.

With a curvet the boat from the open rounds up at the ladder.

From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

“How can you say such a thing?” he repeated involuntarily, driving a spur into his horse’s flank with a dig that made that spirited animal curvet and prance beneath the restraining curb.

From Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt by Mitford, Bertram