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gambol

[gam-buhl] / ˈgæm bəl /


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Specifically, the eye-popping assemblages that greeted Kamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, in last week’s getting-to-you know gambol through battleground states.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024

"They are dying so that you can gambol in your redwood cabinets," he said while addressing the government.

From BBC ● May 5, 2023

Concerns about health, safety and inclusion are driving new trends in the annual gambol of ghouls and goblins.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2022

He/it/whatever is sheathed in a bilious hazmat yellow and sports four arachnid legs that gambol like an over-caffeinated member of a marching band.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2021

If he spies a gawky long-legged puppy swaggering about his own farmyard, he will come closer and entice him out to play by means of every sort of caper and gambol.

From The Animal Story Book by Various

When he collapses into a crumpled heap of disjointed limbs, or gambols triumphantly to a playground refrain, his figure demonstrates operatic feeling with delicate precision.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

“Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs?”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2022

What’s left is a shimmering sensibility that gambols freely in a new age.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2019

He utters it with a sort of charmed appreciation, as if he’s just remembered a unicorn that sometimes gambols on the South Lawn.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 1, 2018

Where be your gibes now, your gambols, your songs? jimmy snyder.

From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer

Three dogs gamboled about as Kristof, whose curly hair is graying, spoke during the interview in a shed.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2022

They squawked and gamboled for the Chicken Shack dance cam.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2021

She gamboled along to the music on Cannon Green behind the iconic Nassau Hall and screeched with glee.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2021

Here, in the salad years, the movie greats gamboled … Laurel and Hardy, W.C.

From Golf Digest ● Mar. 30, 2020

Giants and grotesque figures called tarascas gamboled about; and the auto, which was more like our operas than any other composition of the Spanish stage, was begun by a loa, written or sung.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner

Just before the hour the new man took possession on the left and gambolled across halfway, swaying mesmerically inside two challenges before exploding into a drive which crashed in off the bar.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2017

"My family seem incredibly relaxed with me," he purred, as two cubs gambolled nearby.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2013

But having been thrown a bone by his manager, Torres gambolled exuberantly after it, impressing with his work rate and movement in and around the box.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2011

In the laboratory broadcasters moved, talked, sang, and in regimented waves their actions and sounds gambolled over the radio to the sight & hearing of the home audiences.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the ecstasy of that thought they gambolled round and round, they hurled themselves into the air in great leaps of excitement.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

McDonald is game for the high jinks but doesn’t always seem natural gamboling about the stage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2025

The donkey also wonderingly observes horses gamboling in a field, glimpsed through the narrow window of a transport van, and tropical fish in a tank in a store window.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2022

Under a cobalt October sky, picnic tables, dogs on leashes, gamboling children.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2022

And where earlier series featured grown humans gamboling in costume, the new one is made as puppet animation, the most magical of animated mediums.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2019

The walls bore the same ornamental plates, each featuring a highly colored, beribboned kitten, gamboling and frisking with sickening cuteness.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

And, if you dig the ship, check out the mother—the queen of the meanies, who rolls up late in the show, gambolling across salt flats toward a school bus full of innocent children.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 27, 2016

That’s a big ask, as you’ll know if you’ve ever defrosted a lamb chop and hoped to see it gambolling round the garden.

From The Guardian ● May 25, 2016

BST07:55 9 min: Spurs attack on the break, with Harry Kane gambolling down the right flank.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2015

Temmer, in fact, looks almost hysterical, as though a herd of puppies with bows on are gambolling straight towards her.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2013

I leaned back in the embrasure in a more comfortable position, so that I could enjoy more fully the aërial gambolling.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker


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