Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for curvet
Verb
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The zebras pranced, all frisky energy; the elephants, lumbering and mournful, trailed behind with their ancient thoughts.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
30 Oct. 2025 -
Colette pranced by, her curls dangling in a ponytail.—
Lauren Villagran,
USA Today,
26 Oct. 2025
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Get ready to dance off your Thanksgiving dinner and kick off the holiday season with a night of funk, fun, and giving back.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Nov. 2025
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Today the Moon in your sign is dancing with fair Venus creating pleasant feelings between you and everyone else.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
8 Nov. 2025
Verb
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This addictive, loping track is one of the best and strangest songs from the artist’s fifth album.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
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One likes to imagine Paleo Dad loping across the savannah in hot pursuit of a wooly mammoth.—
Inga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Just as Victor appeared to break open, Jackson leaped into the air, stretched his right arm skyward and pulled down a dazzling one-handed catch at the 3-yard line.—
The Athletic College Football Staff,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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Lyon’s magnetism touches the entire cast, but her bits with both Killam’s Boone and Chenoweth’s Tammy really leap off the screen.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
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Viewers were able to see the hilarious shot of Jinky in the bath quickly cut to a very telling scene of the same dog bounding into a marshland or small lake, tail wagging, body splashing through mud and water in total ecstasy.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Nov. 2025
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District 2 is bounded by Five Mile Road to the west, Franklin Road to the south, and the Interstate-184 Connector to the east.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
5 Nov. 2025
Verb
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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
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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
Verb
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Many foreign attendees at San Fermín have no stomach for the spectacle and spend their early evenings carousing in local bars instead.—
Tony Perrottet,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 June 2025
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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
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“Curvet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curvet. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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