Example Sentences

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He is currently gamboling around my feet while our older dog, Koda, looks on with a combination of suspicion and hope, like he can’t quite believe what he’s seeing.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2024

With trees swaying in the gentle breeze and birds and butterflies gamboling in the setting sun, it would be foolish not to fall into sportive line.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2024

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

The Co-ordinator’s ruddy glass reflected, in miniature, the discreet gamboling of the flame, and, in even further miniature, it was reflected in each of his brooding pupils.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov