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
  • Three friends gambol drunkenly on the lawn, noisy in their adamant youthfulness.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Awakened by crashes on roof of tent, then saw cascade of baboons gamboling down the tent poles and across the porch.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • What’s left is a shimmering sensibility that gambols freely in a new age.
    — Matt Cooper, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Or a surreal snow globe, with dinosaurs and flamingos gamboling next to the Tour Eiffel?
    — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 13 July 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Suddenly, chimps emerged from the woods, gamboling across the grassy lawn and clambering into the adjoining buildings.
    — Emily Anthes Emil T. Lippe, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • For California’s governor, who loves gamboling on a national stage, the whole evening was a lark.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • Her puppies gambol around her, looking healthy and excited, but everyone else seems momentarily stunned by this story.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • His nephew said that, for decades, his grandparents had kept alive a faint hope that maybe their hero son had just been captured and would one day come gamboling through the front door to the family’s Brookside home.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Pan gambols his way through several more stories, surviving war, heartbreak and vicious Mount Olympus gossip.
    — Maria Russo, New York Times, 4 May 2016
  • 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
  • Michael wrote of the rabbits gamboling in his Palisades neighborhood in Northwest Washington.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 25 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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, 19 July 2018
  • 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
  • Okay, so the cow immediately finds its baby, and then there is a BABY COW gamboling in a field.
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Okay, so the cow immediately finds its baby, and then there is a BABY COW gamboling in a field.
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Know Them By Their Fruits, for example, shows people and animals gamboling among fruit trees, and The Bermuda Triangle of Nacogdoches shows planes crashing into the ocean, in front of a plat of the landlocked town.
    — Benjamin Lima special Contributor, Dallas Morning News, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The Paiva children, including Vera (played as a young woman by Valentina Herszage) and Marcelo (played as a boy by Guilherme Silveira), are gamboling on a sunny beach, playing volleyball, and chasing a stray puppy.
    — Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The foundation's dogs typically eat about 10 metric tons (22,046 pounds) of dry food each year and spend their summers gamboling in the remnants of snow in the mountains before heading 40 kilometers (25 miles) down winding roads back to the kennel in Barryland.
    — ABC News, 26 June 2026

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