cavort
verb (used without object)
to prance or caper about.
cavorts
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present tense formof cavort (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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In two of its recent music videos, the quartet cavorts with cows and sheep, and a pig features prominently on the cover of its fierce new album, “I Got Heaven.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2024
With some deft, haunting touches in the lighting by Brad King and illusions by Skylar Fox, the cast cavorts grandly on Maruti Evans’s leafy suburban set.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023
Carmelita elopes, cavorts with Lord Epping and tosses pies with her husband’s ex-fiancee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2020
Chad Kelderman is deliciously ridiculous as Olivia’s pompous major-domo Malvolio, and Eric Ray Anderson gleefully cavorts as the sly party dog Sir Toby Belch.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2019
The sand cavorts around like spring lamb and peas.
From The High Calling by Charles Monroe Sheldon
