How to Use gambol in a Sentence

gambol

verb
  • When the heavens open, many happily sing and gambol in the rain.
    Aimee Lewis, CNN, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Now the view from the Leaman home and gardens includes fluffy lambs gamboling about in the open pastures high above Penn Cove.
    Valerie Easton, The Seattle Times, 12 Apr. 2017
  • That southeast corner of routes 22 and 59 saw Light's herd of horses and their foals gamboling in the pastures.
    Barbara Benson, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2018
  • But for those in attendance for the launch event that watched as their pets gamboled over greenery seemed undeterred by the idea of a fee.
    Elizabeth Roberts, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Kids and dogs were free to gambol through the large parlors and 11 modestly sized bedrooms upstairs, and there were lots of books to read on the pillared porch.
    Nancy Hass, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Three friends gambol drunkenly on the lawn, noisy in their adamant youthfulness.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Or a surreal snow globe, with dinosaurs and flamingos gamboling next to the Tour Eiffel?
    Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 13 July 2017
  • Thanks to a reintroduction program, this horse is now found on the steppes of Central Asia, and up to 300 horses gambol around in Mongolia.
    Ralph Steadman, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The big charcoal drawings of similar woods in which Mr. Shaw gamboled as a child are similarly built more to impress than to move.
    Peter Plagens, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2018
  • Our first thought was to try to extend our food supply by fishing, but the flood had brought down so much food that the large specimens gambolling around our pontoon ignored our tastiest baits.
    Ian Johnson, The New York Review of Books, 5 Apr. 2020
  • While Robert operates the Ferris wheel, Nathan delights the summer crowds by gamboling in a dragon costume.
    The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 2 Mar. 2017
  • What’s left is a shimmering sensibility that gambols freely in a new age.
    Matt Cooper, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Once the legislature got a look and all the devils that are gamboling through the details of the deal, somebody threw the emergency braking system and the whole legislature screeched to a halt.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 17 Aug. 2017
  • And now that the crowds are returning to gamble and gambol, these entertainment emporiums look to be on sure footing.
    Larry Light, Fortune, 14 July 2022
  • The unusual attraction, which opened Friday, features 21 guest rooms that look out over an indoor enclosure where the bears gambol across a floor painted to look like an ice floe.
    Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Michael wrote of the rabbits gamboling in his Palisades neighborhood in Northwest Washington.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 25 June 2017
  • And whereas the earlier series featured grown humans gamboling in costume, the new one is made as puppet animation, the most magical kind.
    Robert Lloyd, Twin Cities, 10 June 2019
  • Each episode — burbling freshets, dancing peasants, water sprites gamboling in moonlit waters, a torrent tumbling over the St. John's Rapids – was firmly drawn and smoothly tied together.
    John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 19 May 2017
  • Pan gambols his way through several more stories, surviving war, heartbreak and vicious Mount Olympus gossip.
    Maria Russo, New York Times, 4 May 2016
  • And where earlier series featured grown humans gamboling in costume, the new one is made as puppet animation, the most magical of animated mediums.
    Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, 6 June 2019
  • This gamboling musical adaptation, in which words spin freely as both spoken and sung non sequitur, celebrates circularity in all its manifold resonances.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2019
  • When the heavens open, many happily sing and gambol in the rain.
    Aimee Lewis, CNN, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Now the view from the Leaman home and gardens includes fluffy lambs gamboling about in the open pastures high above Penn Cove.
    Valerie Easton, The Seattle Times, 12 Apr. 2017
  • That southeast corner of routes 22 and 59 saw Light's herd of horses and their foals gamboling in the pastures.
    Barbara Benson, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2018
  • But for those in attendance for the launch event that watched as their pets gamboled over greenery seemed undeterred by the idea of a fee.
    Elizabeth Roberts, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Kids and dogs were free to gambol through the large parlors and 11 modestly sized bedrooms upstairs, and there were lots of books to read on the pillared porch.
    Nancy Hass, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Three friends gambol drunkenly on the lawn, noisy in their adamant youthfulness.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Or a surreal snow globe, with dinosaurs and flamingos gamboling next to the Tour Eiffel?
    Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 13 July 2017
  • Thanks to a reintroduction program, this horse is now found on the steppes of Central Asia, and up to 300 horses gambol around in Mongolia.
    Ralph Steadman, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The big charcoal drawings of similar woods in which Mr. Shaw gamboled as a child are similarly built more to impress than to move.
    Peter Plagens, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2018

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