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Example sentences for "gambolled"

Lexicographically close words:
gambling; gamboge; gambol; gamboled; gamboling; gambolling; gambols; gambrel; gambusino; game
  1. Crusoe's rage instantly vanished on beholding this, and he seemed to be filled with tumultuous joy at his master's escape, for he gambolled round him, and whined and fawned upon him in a manner that could not be misunderstood.

  2. The latter part of this remark was addressed to his mule, which at that moment broke its laryat, and gambolled gaily away over the flowering plain.

  3. It was in fact Ami who had knocked; he rushed into the garden, then ran back to Honorine and gambolled about her.

  4. Where Chloe gambolled and where Lydia sang, the raven croaked and fluttered, and the night-owl screamed.

  5. In the morning the sun shone bright and warm, and KRA gambolled in the tree-tops, while RAONG climbed on the log and basked in the sunlight.

  6. Mrs. Ozanne had means of knowing, too, that, though Rosanne gambolled round in the dust like a little animal all day, she was well washed at night and put to sleep in a clean bed.

  7. A squirrel gambolled hither and thither in this hollow space; with darting rapid movements it came towards him, and then suddenly shot up a fir and was instantly out of sight among the thick foliage.

  8. The lambs gambolled in the genial sunshine over the daisies; the ewes, arrived at the age of common sense, fed steadily on the young sweet grass, and did not notice the flowers.

  9. While she gambolled in the water, even her quickest movements were as graceful as those of a salmon stemming the rapids and leaping into the shallows above the rock.

  10. She walked around the enclosure, sniffing now and again in the grass, while the young foxes frisked and gambolled with each other, or trotted demurely by her side.

  11. So I leaped and gambolled round that dark courtyard, and made her do likewise, till her lugubriousness had all faded away.

  12. I gambolled up to it, ran my head through it, pawed it off, and went back to the man.

  13. Smith, the bulldog, gambolled about her shapely feet.

  14. He gambolled in Webster's wake up the stairs and along the passage leading to the latter's room, and only paused when the door was brusquely shut in his face.

  15. The Cardinal, seated in his armchair, his legs bound and encased with furs and warm clothing, had upon his knees three kittens, which gambolled upon his scarlet robe.

  16. Schools of spermaceti-whales to the number of twenty at a time gambolled lazily around the prow.

  17. Instead of flying fish now, were whales, whales in schools of thousands that gambolled round the Golden Hind.

  18. In the early days of his betrothal, Ingomar threw daisies at his beloved, and gambolled with her in mimic strife, but latterly his song was hushed at eventide, and spits and clouts and flying fluff were too often the order of the day.

  19. Meanwhile, Fido gambolled up to the cottage dame, and begged before her as if to solicit her good-will.

  20. The whelps, always eager for a new move of any kind, gambolled joyously around their parents, but the mothers snarled at them, bidding them go soberly, lest weariness and worse should overtake them before their time.

  21. Giles seized his and rolled it along the floor and gambolled after it.

  22. In her enthusiasm, Sally gambolled about the girls, flourishing her milk-pan like a modern Miriam about to sound her timbrel for excess of joy.

  23. Of animal life we saw but little, though birds of gay plumage flew across the stream, and cow-fish, porpoises, and other creatures gambolled in the waters.

  24. With rattling and with clanking chains The demon gambolled off, Avoiding church and crucifix, To seek the sulphur trough; But if another maudlin man There chanced upon his way, Most gladly would he turn aside To grapple yet more prey.

  25. He gambolled like a monstrous calf Of breed unknown and strange, And drunken men were filled with fear Who happened on his range.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gambolled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.