gambols
Example Sentences
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“Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs?”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2022
Virginia Woolf described his masterpiece, “Hydriotaphia,” a survey of funerary customs, as “a cathedral where the organ goes plunging and soaring and indulging in vast and elephantine gambols of awful yet grotesque sublimity.”
From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2020
What’s left is a shimmering sensibility that gambols freely in a new age.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2019
Shirley MacLaine, doing her best Gwen Verdon impression, gambols onscreen like a giddy doo-dah, and then she does the same thing in reverse.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2018
Though others roared at Bear’s antics, this young man took offense at Bear’s gambols and, with growing anger, made three attempts to snatch his mazer back.
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
