gad

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

At Axim I split off by gads and wedges a large slice of the grooved rocks described by Burton; it came home with me, and is now lodged in the British Museum.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton

When Lawn Dyarrig came to the opening with the gads all twisted and made into one, they hadn’t the ribs of the basket in the ground yet.

From The Irish Fairy Book by Various

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

"I gadded all over London trying," said the Doctor, who narrated his experiences.

From The Old Blood by Frederick Palmer

Its inmates had gadded about during the summer in a very reckless way; they looked more sober after the first frost—more thoughtful—more anxious about something.

From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by H. H. Riley

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

“Hold your tongue, you disrespectful old bird! And, Jo, you’d better go at once. It isn’t proper to be gadding about so late with a rattlepated boy like...”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott