Example Sentences

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“Feasting with panthers”— that is, cavorting with Douglas and louche company — opened Wilde up to blackmail, arrest and utter ruin.

From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2021

But Zink’s satire is cavorting on a racial minefield navigated more affectingly earlier this year by T. Geronimo Johnson’s “Welcome to Braggsville.”

From Washington Post • May 12, 2015

He cares for Tommy even as Gillian is cavorting with Roger.

From Time • Oct. 29, 2012

Meanwhile the real Goddess Diana is cavorting with a local shepherd.

From Time Magazine Archive

Let him try to join them, and lo, the games become a mockery, and he finds that he is cavorting still outside the walls, while the good citizens inside are making sly sport of him.

From The Court of Boyville by Lowell, Orson