Sample Sentences for
gambol
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    Thanks ever so for the midnight gambol about the old palatial grounds.  (source)
    gambol = frolic
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    She keeps talking about letting down Ottaline Gambol.†  (source)
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    Then she began to laugh with her lips tight together, without giving up the fight, but defending herself with false bites and deweaseling her body little by little until they both were conscious of being adversaries and accomplices at the same time and the affray degenerated into a conventional gambol and the attacks became caresses.†  (source)
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    gambols of swans, in the clear water of the fishponds, all in folds of light and shade;†  (source)
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    But so have I seen little Miriam and Martha, laughing-eyed elves, heedlessly gambol around their old sire; sporting with the circle of singed locks which grew on the marge of that burnt-out crater of his brain.†  (source)
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    I leaned back in the embrasure in a more comfortable position, so that I could enjoy more fully the aerial gambolling.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use gamboling.
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    He's going to die and she's gamboling.†  (source)
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    In the ecstasy of that thought they gambolled round and round, they hurled themselves into the air in great leaps of excitement.  (source)
    gambolled = frolicked (moved playfully)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use gamboled.
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    Charles and Fortinbras gamboled on ahead.†  (source)
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    His watermelon-pink tongue lapped out, his whole body wiggled and his joyful contortions were as ludicrous as the gambolings of a mastiff.†  (source)
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    The little kitten, feasting her eyes on him, seemed ready at any moment to start her gambols again and display her kittenish nature.†  (source)
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    I wish Kate could see them, the way they gambol and swirl through the air.†  (source)
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    In the centre of the pool three of the strangest creatures were playfully gambolling over the water.†  (source)
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In Gambol and Japes Wizarding Joke Shop, they met Fred, George, and Lee Jordan, who were stocking up on Dr. Filibuster's Fabulous Wet-Start, No-Heat Fireworks, and in a tiny junk shop full of broken wands, lopsided brass scales, and old cloaks covered in potion stains they found Percy, deeply immersed in a small and deeply boring book called Prefects Who Gained Power.  (source)
Gambol = a name
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