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gambol

[gam-buhl] / ˈgæm bəl /


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"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

But as they gambol about the moors in those early years, it’s the joy they take in each other, and the freedom they feel together, that forms a bond so unbreakable it transcends death.

From New York Times Oct. 18, 2022

Painted pigs gambol in green fields by meandering streams under blue, cloud-studded skies happily oblivious of the fate that awaited them within.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2022

Two children had come forth to gambol, nothing more.

From A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Edwin Carlile Litsey

“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

As the astronauts finished their scientific work — and their gambols — they planted an American flag on the moon.

From Washington Post May 26, 2018

As he gambols around a Minecraft map of his own creation, a cluster of buildings, tunnels and landscapes he calls “my lovely world,” Stampy seems to exist in a permanent state of delight.

From New York Times May 20, 2015

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

The more they kept to their village, the bolder grew the wild things that gamboled and bellowed on the grazing-grounds by the Waingunga.

From The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

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

The dire wolves known to paleontologists, however, are different from the creatures that can now be viewed in Colossal videos gamboling in an open field.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2025

She smiled approvingly at the gamboling dogs, the sweating men, the woman who had arrived for a constitutional in high heels and full makeup.

From New York Times Apr. 29, 2022

Today they share their home with a puppy named Popcorn who loves gamboling about the green space.

From Washington Post Jun. 29, 2021

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

It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.

From "1984" by George Orwell

Thiago Alcantara, while back gambolling on the training ground grass, will not.

From The Guardian Oct. 22, 2021

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

The gambolling creatures we habitually count to get to sleep are recast as necrotic nightmares, a World War Z-style rolling wave of bad baa juju.

From The Guardian Jan. 9, 2016

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

From The Guardian Aug. 8, 2015

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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