How to Use cavort in a Sentence

cavort

verb

• Otters cavorted in the stream.
• Cats that cavort in the snow, camp in the wilderness, sail on the ocean?
  — Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2017
• His sons, ages 2 and 7, came and went to cavort with their father.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
• They’ll be enlivened by dancers cavorting across the lawns, through the playground, around the maze, and around the fountain.
  — Karen Campbell, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
• The duped ruler in this production isn’t going to cavort in tighty whities (or less).
  — Laurel Graeber, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
• The characters have as much heft as the lingerie in which the actresses cavort, but the point is the dazzle.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 30 Aug. 2019
• To see Jude cavorting on the field with such joy before the fireworks began was a thing of beauty.
  — Peter King, The MMQB, 29 May 2017
• But these examples alone show that Trump likely shouldn’t cavort with Putin at the White House.
  — Alex Ward, Vox, 2 Apr. 2018
• The trailer also gives us a glimpse at Prince Philip (Matt Smith), who is still cavorting around behind the queen’s back, untamed and free.
  — Rebecca Keegan, HWD, 10 Aug. 2017
• The trailer also gives us a glimpse at Prince Philip (Matt Smith), who is still cavorting around behind the queen’s back, untamed and free.
  — Rebecca Keegan, vanityfair.com, 10 Aug. 2017
• Sophie Petrovic, whose house just down the street from mine was ruined, cavorted in a blur of Munchkins, as if all evil winds were just props on stage.
  — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• This performance gets bonus points for the backup dancers clad in full ballgowns and wigs cavorting about the stage.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 4 Jan. 2024
• Jones plays mostly on first and second downs, busting up the party in the trenches while his glam teammates cavort in the spotlight.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 6 Nov. 2019
• Rolling in the sky overhead are winged infants, or putti, who cavort amid splashy clouds of color that seem more liquid than smoky.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 9 June 2019
• Metallic-blue dragonflies cavorted above the pondweed at lake’s edge, zooming in and out of sight like glimpses of neon seen from a speeding car.
  — Brian J. Cantwell, The Seattle Times, 7 June 2017
• Eat yours on a rocking chair in the shade, or at picnic tables by a wishing well, with a view of a green field and cavorting animals.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
• Jozelene Beckmann, who lives in Belém, home of the state park where the squirrel monkey died, says that monkeys used to cavort along her rooftop and slip inside her home.
  — Sam Kean, Science | AAAS, 17 Aug. 2017
• Later episodes would show that Carey had, in fact, been cavorting with Tanaka while she was still engaged to Packer.
  — William D. Cohan, Vanities, 19 June 2017
• The same field is featured in video, with a white-clad Gispert cavorting in winter, joined by two winged angel models.
  — Gary Graff, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2018
• Portraits of Mughal rulers, or of nobles cavorting, can be lovely.
  — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2019
• Why this is the case soon becomes clear when a car bomb nearly kills a local politician, who shows up at the villa afterwards to cavort with the mobsters.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2024
• With folk music blasting from the stereos of parked cars, groups of protesters would break off from the crowds to link arms and cavort in concentric circles.
  — Amie Ferris-Rotman, Washington Post, 3 May 2018
• Photos from the Cambodian police show a group of people dressed but cavorting on the floor.
  — Andrew Jeong, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2023
• A man in a sheer yellow body stocking cavorted with an American flag at the base of the monument's column.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 19 May 2017
• Dolphins cavorted as though water sports were goring out of style.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• Yep, wild turkeys have been seen cavorting in a number of neighborhoods.
  — John Horgan, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2017
• The license to cavort and disregard the strictures of Lent is Ireland's version of Carnival.
  — CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
• The best divers and gymnasts can be awfully feline in their flips; NASA, too, has looked to cats to teach astronauts to cavort through gravity-free space.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2022
• The jhol momo are lined up like swimmers in a Busby Berkeley number, cavorting waist-deep in a pool of golden vegetable broth.
  — Dominic Armato, azcentral, 7 Feb. 2020
• At once, his days of solitude were filled with New Zealand’s native birds; cavorting dolphins, turtles and whales; and polar bears on ice floes.
  — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024