cavort
verb (used without object)
to prance or caper about.
had been cavorting
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past perfect progressiveof cavort.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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“Fantastisch!” he yelled to the chorus, which had been cavorting on a vertiginously mirrored set.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2018
When Lord Astor, the nobleman in whose swimming pool Ms. Keeler had been cavorting, denied that he was involved with the teenage Rice-Davies, she quipped in court, “Well, he would, wouldn’t he?”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2017
While State police nipped the lynching, one wall of 80-year-old Piper's opry house collapsed on a spot where clusters of expensive Hollywood talent had been cavorting shortly before.
From Time Magazine Archive
Goblin had been cavorting, blowing through his nostrils, begging to be let out.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
When he got out, Hare looked back and saw that the water was badly muddied from where he had been cavorting.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
