Example Sentences

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A group of older kids were horsing around and shoving each other into the pool.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2023

Around noon, while Robbins and Ruffalo were horsing around between takes—Robbins: “You were horrible.”

From The New Yorker • Nov. 4, 2019

My recollection was they were kind of wrestling, there was body contact and they were horsing around,” the athletic director testified, according to the transcript.

From BusinessWeek • Dec. 17, 2011

He remembers the words Mickey Rosario, a trainer at a small gym on 112th street, told him and his friends when they first showed up to his gym and were horsing around.

From New York Times • May 5, 2011

She smiled at the cluster of teenage boys who were horsing around in the shallow end.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart