cavort

in a sentence

Satisfied, sun-warmed, we sprawl in the grass and peel Satsumas and watch our kites cavort.  (source) Truman Capote, A Christmas Memory, 1956

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) Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884

The next day at school, I studied Mr. Birkway as he leaped and cavorted about the classroom.†  (source) Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons, 1994

"There's no telling what kind of cavorting takes place in that theater," he said.†  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

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) George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones, 1996

The faithless, worthless bits of filth who were brave enough to cavort in masks at the Quidditch World Cup, but fled at the sight of the Dark Mark when I fired it into the sky.†  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000

Yes, and Gabil is the mighty warrior who cavorts with Tanis in all kinds of imagined battles.†  (source) Ted Dekker, Black: The Birth of Evil, 2004

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) Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884

They climbed into the old skiff, still cavorting like they were tipsy.†  (source) Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing, 2018

I learned later that this welcoming chorus was transmitted through hydrophones to the Passage Channels where dolphins leaped and cavorted to the music.†  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

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) Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres, 1991

She sings, cavorts, and sips hot schnapps from a half-pint holstered on her hip.†  (source) Robert MacNeil and William Crane, Do You Speak American?, 2005

Across the strip of cowhide one sees a rendering of a two-lane blacktop, a NO-U-TURN sign, a thunderstorm producing a flash flood that engulfs a car, a hitchhiker's thumb, an eagle, the Sierra Nevada, salmon cavorting in the Pacific Ocean, the Pacific Coast Highway from Oregon to Washington, the Rocky Mountains, Montana wheat fields, a South Dakota rattlesnake, Westerberg's house in Carthage, the Colorado River, a gale in the Gulf of California, a canoe beached beside a tent, Las Vegas, the initials T.C.D., Morro Bay, Astoria, and at the buckle end, finally, the letterN (presumably representing north).†  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996