skylarking

Example Sentences

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He chalked up the incident as “a case where the skylarking and tomfoolery in an employment context has gone awry.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2023

He told the court this was a case of "skylarking and tomfoolery" that had "gone awry".

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2023

“Showers of rice” were thrown by “the jolly young people who had been skylarking the afternoon away in the White House,” the New York Times reported.

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2022

The questions are indisputably important and the lad's pluck is commendable, but the old. happy, skylarking days back at Ferndale were a lot more fun.

From Time Magazine Archive

We all know that skylarking of that kind sometimes produces the worst accidents.

From The Frontier Boys in the Sierras Or, The Lost Mine by Roosevelt, Wyn