cavort
verb (used without object)
to prance or caper about.
were cavorting
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past progressiveof cavort.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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But I noticed that the animals were cavorting behind a colossal mansion that backs up to the woods.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2021
In 20 minutes scores of Comrades and their wives were cavorting like Capitalists.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile, 2,500 visiting U. S. Legionnaires were cavorting in Paris with much the same uproarious levity they loosed recently in New York.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some one was pounding iron in the blacksmith shop; horses were cavorting in the corrals; cattle were bawling round the hay-ricks in the barn-yard.
From The Mysterious Rider by Grey, Zane
