Sample Sentences for
cavort
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  • Satisfied, sun-warmed, we sprawl in the grass and peel Satsumas and watch our kites cavort.  (source)
    cavort = play in a lively, unrestrained manner
  • The minute he was on, the horse begun to rip and tear and jump and cavort around, with two circus men hanging on to his bridle trying to hold him, and the drunk man hanging on to his neck, and his heels flying in the air every jump, and the whole crowd of people standing up shouting and laughing till tears rolled down.  (source)
    cavort = playing in a lively, unrestrained manner
  • He suppressed a sudden urge to cavort there, to turn the worm, to show off his mastery of this creature.†  (source)
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  • They climbed into the old skiff, still cavorting like they were tipsy.†  (source)
  • The next day at school, I studied Mr. Birkway as he leaped and cavorted about the classroom.†  (source)
  • She knew exactly how to sense us without ever looking at us, exactly how to let us see her smile and cavort and flirt.†  (source)
  • She sings, cavorts, and sips hot schnapps from a half-pint holstered on her hip.†  (source)
  • We asked some stragglers about it, and they said everybody went to the show looking very innocent; and laid low and kept dark till the poor old king was in the middle of his cavortings on the stage; then somebody give a signal, and the house rose up and went for them.†  (source)
  • "There's no telling what kind of cavorting takes place in that theater," he said.†  (source)
  • Myrish carpets covered the floor instead of rushes, and in one corner a hundred fabulous beasts cavorted in bright paints on a carved screen from the Summer Isles.†  (source)
  • Through the columns, which were infinitely multiplied by the clever placement of the mirrors, I saw a blue mosaic bathtub that was as big as the room and a pool large enough to bathe a cow in—or, more to the point, for two playful lovers to cavort in.†  (source)
  • Yes, and Gabil is the mighty warrior who cavorts with Tanis in all kinds of imagined battles.†  (source)
  • Not only harboring Lunars but also cavorting with them.†  (source)
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