Example Sentences

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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

On its spine fleurs-de-lis alternate with gamboling dolphins, while its cover bears the arms of Louis XIV’s heir, the Grand Dauphin.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2024

The difference is we can see the actors mugging and gamboling.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2023

Up ahead I noticed a deer gamboling in the grass.

From Washington Post • Oct. 8, 2020

The walls bore the same ornamental plates, each featuring a highly colored, beribboned kitten, gamboling and frisking with sickening cuteness.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling