curvet

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for curvet
Verb
  • The sculpture includes the full car body, along with Ferrari’s official prancing horse badges, front and rear lamp lenses, and hood straps.
    Alistair Charlton, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • Ball, prancing handsomely around the stage in a leather jacket and see-through club shirt, leaves a stylish impression when in motion.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
Verb
  • The reality star continued to post wedding highlights, including videos of himself and Blanco dancing together at their reception.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 14 July 2025
  • The soccer is the show, and fans provide music with their vocal cords and dancing with their hips.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 14 July 2025
Verb
  • But longtime fans will recognize the idiosyncratic wordplay, loping syllables and ornate hooks that bend toward a major chorus, all as magnetic today as when Weaver barreled into view a decade ago.
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 16 June 2025
  • Burnett has an associative, loping way of holding conversation.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 June 2025
Verb
  • Some day, the 22-year-old might leap tall buildings in a single bound, but for now, Condon is content to learn his trade.
    Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 5 July 2025
  • Officially, retail theft leapt by 32% between 2021 and 2023, the LAO said.
    Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 5 July 2025
Verb
  • This can include exploding upward with a vertical jump, bounding side to side, or swiftly changing directions.
    Jenny McCoy, SELF, 15 July 2025
  • Thanks to his coveted slot, Young bounds up the charts in the United Kingdom, as such a coveted slot can lead to a huge uptick in consumption.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
Verb
  • An escaped pet zebra that went on the lam in Tennessee was captured Sunday after gamboling in the forest for more than a week.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 8 June 2025
  • The dire wolves known to paleontologists, however, are different from the creatures that can now be viewed in Colossal videos gamboling in an open field.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • These increasingly crazed visitors spend their days lazing on the shore, drinking and eating, carousing with prostitutes, and abusing Rosa (played by B-movie actress Leonora Fani, who would also star in the equally notorious vacation film Giallo in Venice) for their own entertainment.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 26 June 2025
  • That night, Noonan caroused at the hotel bar with James Collopy, the district superintendent of the civil-aviation board.
    Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
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“Curvet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curvet. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.

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