- past perfect progressive of cavort.
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
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Goblin had been cavorting, blowing through his nostrils, begging to be let out.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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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
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