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
The pair gad from location to location with a cheery boisterousness.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2013
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
"By gad, I'll have my lawyers on to her for this! I'll make her pay through the nose!"
From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
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
She got disgusted and said, Ye gads, like ABC gum, already been chewed.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
No wonder she gads when she has a chance!
From A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
Yet when he taught school he had a big bundle of "gads" as he called them and he hid them in the stove pipe, where the boys failed to find them.
From My Boyhood by John Burroughs
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
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
If she had had her own way, she would have gadded about at watering-places all the year round.
From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees
Though I have seen a great deal, though I have gadded about a great deal, I have experienced comparatively little.
From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various
Not exactly the boys of 1888, those 22 Lions pioneers who spent eight months gadding about New Zealand and Australia playing 35 games, but a fair old trip none the less.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025
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
