Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for curvet
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In the album’s most beautiful moments, Triplin makes arpeggios sound like prancing through an earthly paradise and sands off juke’s rough edges to produce rhythms that seem to chug along in the margins of a daydreaming brain.—
Kiana Mickles,
Pitchfork,
5 Mar. 2026 -
And, to this day, they are meticulously trained from colts to perform spectacular feats of dressage, including some who can lift their front legs and seem to prance off the ground.—
Marla Jo Fisher,
Oc Register,
18 Feb. 2026
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Drink green beer, Jell-O shots and Shamrock Splash cocktails at participating restaurants and bars and dance along to mixes from a rotating list of DJs.—
Caroline Ritzie,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
8 Mar. 2026
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But for people like de la Vega, who danced with Sacramento Ballet as a child and later professionally, Cunningham wasn’t just a creative visionary.—
Graham Womack,
Sacbee.com,
7 Mar. 2026
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Much of Andrews’ previous album, 2022’s Loose Future, was mild and loping; on Valentine, her voice reverts to the arresting quality of earlier releases like 2018’s May Your Kindness Remain.—
Lily Goldberg,
Pitchfork,
20 Jan. 2026
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With the enthusiastic Sun loping into your 9th House of Mental Expansion, curiosity is about to become your best guide.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
19 Jan. 2026
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Consider the squirrel outside your window, leaping branch to branch, adjusting mid-flight for wind and flex.—
Nicole Fraenkel,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
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Williams is a question after missing the Barcelona test and not particularly leaping out during Bahrain testing.—
The Athletic,
New York Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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In the background there are grazing topi, bounding Thomson's gazelles, and, far in the distance, a snoozing pride of lions.—
Tom Vanderbilt,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Mar. 2026
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Area bounded roughly by Carroll Avenue to the south, Grand Avenue to the north, Franklin Street to the west and Wabash Avenue to the east.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Mar. 2026
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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
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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
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But that doesn’t add much beyond three crusty Báthory ancestors carousing drunkenly in their coffins.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Feb. 2026
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When Hedda and Eileen were wild together, Eileen’s drinking and carousing was a problem, but she’s put all that wickedness behind her, mostly thanks to the love of Thea Clifton (a delicate Imogen Poots), who has also just arrived at the mansion for the world’s worst party.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Curvet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curvet. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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