gambol
verb (used without object)
to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic.
were gamboling
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past progressiveof gambol.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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The striped-bass fingerlings, he comments cheerfully, "were gamboling all over the tank like Labrador pups."
From Time Magazine Archive
"They are meant to move, but they are perfectly still," said Judy; "if I drew them, I'd"—she puckered her brows—"oh, I'd see that they were gamboling about."
From A Young Mutineer by L. T. Meade
The tunny fish, playful lambs of the blue pasture lands, were gamboling over its surface or passing in schools under the furrows of the waves.
From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
Near them a knot of embryo chiefs were gamboling in all the glorious freedom of "sans culottes".
From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by Jonathon Holt Ingraham
Pet hounds were gamboling about the room, and games and toys of every description were scattered all about in the greatest profusion.
From The Elm Tree Tales by F. Irene Burge (Frances Irene Burge) Smith
