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Example sentences for "gambolling"

Lexicographically close words:
gamboge; gambol; gamboled; gamboling; gambolled; gambols; gambrel; gambusino; game; gamecock
  1. Her children, hid The cliffs amid, Are gambolling with the gambolling kid; Or down the walls, With tipsy calls, Laugh on the rocks like waterfalls.

  2. Just as they were departing, Marmoset, observing that she was about to be left behind, uttered a frantic cry, which brought Grampus gambolling to her side.

  3. They were disappointed, however, in not seeing monkeys gambolling among the trees, as they had expected.

  4. So saying Dick bounded away into the woods with Crusoe gambolling joyously at his heels.

  5. Out came the cows into the street, a noisy, happy herd, lowing and gambolling in exuberant but ungainly joy, for they were very naturally delighted to learn that their long captivity was over.

  6. There must have been thirty or forty of these creatures gambolling about around us.

  7. In a short time the buffalo, who seemed not to apprehend danger, began gambolling and sporting with each other.

  8. So saying Dick bounded away into the woods, with Crusoe gambolling joyously at his heels.

  9. Every one was mother-naked, and their ebony skins shone like those of a school of gambolling porpoises.

  10. Sophia, with her antelope, was gambolling around them, the one rivalling the other in the grace of their movements, not only without knowing it, but rather because they did not know it.

  11. Whether it moves or not, we shall all see by and by; but do you not observe this monster's young ones gambolling by its side?

  12. The four dogs set up a loud clamour at the sight of the visitor, and went gambolling down the walk to meet her.

  13. A pretty little foal about four months old came frisking and gambolling now before now beside the horses, whilst a colt of some sixteen months followed more leisurely behind.

  14. I went up to them: two women sat at the entrance of one; a man stood by them, and the children, whom I had before seen, were gambolling near at hand.

  15. But, instead of a single whale, the sea appeared to be alive with them, playing about in the water, gambolling on the surface or diving under.

  16. It was a terrible strain to keep still and silent when we might have been gambolling in the open, calling for male companionship.

  17. For nearly fifteen minutes, Oakley continued gambolling round our ship and then, with a sudden leap upwards, he passed over us and headed straight for the island.

  18. Schools of cows with recently born young gambolling about them are met with at immense distances from land, showing no disposition to seek shelter either.

  19. It is as frolicsome as the porpoise, gambolling about in schools of from twenty to fifty or more, as if really delighted to be alive.

  20. They escorted us all over the garden, gathering flowers and fruits for us, the crowd of little children gambolling and dancing in front.

  21. How little I suspected then (or the bull-calf either, for that matter) that he was to frolic his way into literature, and go gambolling down the ages to distract the anxious soul of the lover of Hilda!

  22. As we were walking near the house, I was surprised to see a fine cat, with a pretty little leveret gambolling and frolicking by her side.

  23. The puppy had been jumping and gambolling about, with no great hunt in him, and upon seeing the old dog stand, ran playfully up to him.

  24. Intoxicated by the open air, Azor would dash away, gambolling and wheeling and leaping like a mad creature, and performing a hundred tricks that mightily amused his good old master.

  25. All the horses were gone, except a few colts gambolling about in fields separated by high barriers.

  26. Every one hurried on deck, and we now saw that some seven or eight female narwhals were gambolling in the channel close upon us.

  27. While we were busy with the walruses that day we suddenly saw the whole fjord white with white whales gambolling all round as far as the eye could see.

  28. On September 6th we saw the last narwhals gambolling in the lanes around the ship, and a few days later the last flock of skuas (Lestris parasiticus) took their departure.


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