How To Use Cavort In A Sentence

  • The film helps debunk a recent media report that many of the players were banished to mines and farms for cavorting at a ‘wild party with foreign ladies’ before their defeat by Portugal.
  • Okay," she said, determined not to sound concerned for fear she encouraged his cavortings. GALILEE
  • It's a typically riotous mix of oompah music-hall cavortings, slurred-pitch Middle Eastern rhapsodising, luxuriously sensuous clarinet love-songs, and stormy collective blasts reminiscent of the 1960s John Coltrane quartet. Gilad Atzmon Orient House Ensemble: The Tide Has Changed
  • Perhaps all single people should be forced on Valentine's Day to watch videos of their exes cavorting around with their new partners to make them think about what they had given away.
  • Tana had drugged me, slipping some poison into my mead as we cavorted.
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  • It's easy to perceive the Super Furries as too ambitious for their own good, as they cavort guilelessly from West Coast rock to nosebleed techno, from mariachi to calypso.
  • Their strategy is, near as anybody can tell, to find every female Clinton might possibly have cavorted with.
  • They were being subversive and celebratory at the same time and there was also something rawly sexual about this gaggle of half-drowned young people cavorting and hugging and splashing in the mud.
  • You can enjoy a quick snack while your children cavort in the sand.
  • The actor is the essence of dogginess from the optimistic expectancy in his eyes to the bounce in his cavortings.
  • A woman cavorted in the rubble in a ghostly dance out of sync with the throbbing music.
  • Her dance cavorts playfully between elegance and tease; a spin of the sari around her, and her perfectly toned midriff is exposed but for a swift moment.
  • Her dance cavorts playfully between elegance and tease; a spin of the sari around her, and her perfectly toned midriff is exposed but for a swift moment.
  • If you "cavort" on a beach without your top, you are "cavorting" without your BRAINS. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • He sings splendidly and cavorts camply with bravura. The Sun
  • She cavorted about in the shallow water.
  • Funloving hedonists who have spent three years doing nothing but drinking and cavorting in seedy nightclubs suddenly become paragons of academic virtue.
  • He used to cavort with her in stairwells and find inventive ways to eat cling peaches.
  • With a quick cavort he regained his seat and proceeded to fight with the mare for control. Jack London's Short Story - Planchette
  • So she joined the party and soon spotted her husband in his costume, cavorting around on the dance floor, dancing with every nice ‘chick’ he could.
  • Yet it's hard to argue when one stands in its presence: The car's obsidian aluminum body Mr. Lauren changed the color from blue seems to leap over itself in a cavort of harmonies and symmetries, the fenders and arched roofline like black dolphins breeching and leaping. A Man Driven to Distraction
  • Instead, we played some strange game that culminated in cavorting naked in the snow except for boots, underpants and balaclavas.
  • Watching these roilings and cavortings I began to understand why Luman had been so reluctant to enter this room. GALILEE
  • They have a very young-looking actor cavorting with a clearly much older-looking woman.
  • Yet it's hard to argue when one stands in its presence: The car's obsidian aluminum body Mr. Lauren changed the color from blue seems to leap over itself in a cavort of harmonies and symmetries, the fenders and arched roofline like black dolphins breeching and leaping. A Man Driven to Distraction
  • At the foot of the cliffs, several species of dolphin cavort in the waves, regularly spotted by visitors from small boats. St Helena: a voyage of discovery
  • Not that she hadn't seen new sights in the Valley: eetees roaring along Figueroa Avenue in a Lincoln Navigator; eetee muckamucks cavorting in a swimming pool full of yellow slime; eetee grunts dead and bloated in an alleyway, lunch for a pack of feral dogs. Asimov's Science Fiction
  • It was an amateurish seascape with a great many small boats cavorting on a turbulent ocean. TIME TO MURDER AND CREATE
  • No late-night revelling, no booze-ups, no cavorting with local ladies: these are the usual diktats dispatched to players by their national coaches at World Cup time.
  • We spun, whizzed, dashed, leaped, "cavorted;" we did whatever a birch running the gantlet of whirlpools and breakers may do, except the fatal finality of a somerset. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862
  • Afterward, she was free to cavort with an amico -- a "friend" or soulmate who would accompany her to plays, churches and elsewhere. If He Has A Mistress, Why Can't She Have...A Mister?
  • Any number of specters could be floating in the cold, thin air or cavorting among icily twinkling stars.
  • The photos showed her cavorting on the beach with her new lover.
  • No serious attention would be paid to cuisine while his pupils were cavorting around in this outlandish dress parade.
  • I had to slap my thigh and cavort around.
  • I had to slap my thigh and cavort around.
  • We are at least spared the sight of these noise producers cavorting about the stage in a sort of corybantic frenzy.
  • Uncle Abel called his cavortings when feeling exceptionally fit from his unaccustomed diet of oats and feed. A Dixie School Girl
  • He used amateur actors to perform the surreal scenes which feature naked young women cavorting on a double bed while a shirtless youth enthusiastically bangs away on percussion.
  • They appear to be sexual predators, ready to leap from the interior, domestic space to cavort lasciviously in the external realm of military men.
  • To Robert Plant he was this absolutely elite gentleman, the master of serenity, as much at home with the backstage cavorting of Led Zeppelin as he was with the politesse of high society. . . The Man Behind the Music
  • ‘Soccer’ is a sport where grown men cavort and prance.
  • Beside the man, demons no longer cavorted cheerfully, in fact, the path was empty bar the sandy grit that scattered its surface.
  • If bikini-clad supermodels cavorting with lunchmeat is your idea of hot online action -- then consider this the jackpot, baby. Boing Boing: January 18, 2004 - January 24, 2004 Archives
  • He capered and cavorted growing louder by the moment, so that it was a fair bit before the French player's quiet protestations could be heard.
  • There were further embarrassing reports that he had invited a third barmaid back to his rented house and 'cavorted' in front of her in a blue and orange sarong before whipping off his boxer shorts and spanking her. Home | Mail Online
  • Whether chewing the windowsill or cavorting around in the woods, she demands attention. Times, Sunday Times
  • In an incident that will have the manager fuming, players cavorted with dancers at the newly-opened strip bar, the Liquorice Club.
  • Indians (Bedouins) with very long spears in their hands, cavorting around on old crowbait horses, and spearing imaginary enemies; whooping, and fluttering their rags in the wind, and carrying on in every respect like The Innocents Abroad
  • Hermanus east of here is a prime vantage point to watch the whales at their cavortings. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Sap rises, rabbits cavort, the clocks go forward, the taxmen prepare to pounce and the allergic begin to sneeze. Times, Sunday Times
  • Italian prime-time TV is filled with vapid variety shows featuring improbably hot chicks cavorting with goatish older men. The Future Is Cheese
  • Their strategy is, near as anybody can tell, to find every female Clinton might possibly have cavorted with.
  • I knew Pierre Trudeau cavorted with dictators, dabbled in fascism, embraced communism, tanked Alberta. ProWomanProLife » One more reason to love Margaret Thatcher
  • She cavorts around in her pants with her imaginary hunk!
  • How the Italians cavorted and jumped for joy at the final whistle; how the Scots looked broken and demoralised.
  • Jock-bashing is just another grand old English tradition, a bit like morris dancing or cavorting round a maypole.
  • Let the lyres of joy be heard across the land, let nymphs cavort on the greensward of happiness, let angels parp their trumpets of glee, let… etc etc etc.
  • David Bohm, and Jean-Pierre Vigier to hypothesise the existence of an unobserved deterministic substructure underpinning the apparently indeterministic cavortings of objects on the quantum-mechanical level. Paul Feyerabend
  • The wild descriptions that follow of his madcap days cavorting around the edges of the world of Oz are the liveliest stretches of the book. Times, Sunday Times
  • Squirrels were leaping and cavorting after each other, rocking the boughs, chittering in jubilee.
  • Cavorting among the alphabet characters are tiny human figures, veritable Tom Thumbs, populating a world of extravagantly scaled objects.
  • Once free they did what escaped prisoners do: Swiped a pickup truck, cavorted on the outside for a while, then got hauled back into the pokey.
  • Leave it to Paris Hilton to take “cavorting on camelback” to new heights. Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Paris Hilton Goes To Egypt
  • A funny parody scene of the movie was shown, while Homer grimaced at his movie heroes cavorting and caterwauling.
  • He's been up all night cavorting with models (or so my puerile mind imagines) and now he's watching telly while I'm working.
  • They were spotted cavorting beside the swimming pool.
  • They are purposely hidden away at backwater college campuses, where the monstrously large football mesomorphs must cavort under the searing sun, be-helmeted, in all their hot and bulky pads.
  • With his schoolboy hips and abs to die for, Mick Jagger still cavorts, teases, taunts and leers in exactly the manner you expect him to.
  • For the next sixteen months he lived a double life in the popular tourist resort, working as a bar man by day and cavorting with young women and prostitutes at night.
  • He cavorts licentiously with the above-named beauties Laetitia Casta, Anna Mouglalis and Lucy Gordon, respectively. Tense but Flawed, 'Debt' Defaults on Drama
  • Once at a cocktail do in one of the vast reception areas where archdukes had cavorted, he languidly asked me to fetch him a canapé.
  • While gazing at the industrious insects, novelty-toy entrepreneur Milton Levine was transported back to childhood and his uncle's farm, where he collected ants in jars and watched them "cavort," Mr. Levine told the Los Angeles Times in 2002. The Seattle Times
  • The photograph shows him cavorting with two young women.
  • Nigel Griffiths, a close friend of the Prime Minister, cavorted with the brunette in his oak-panelled office late in the evening on Remembrance Day, according to the News of the World. Nigel Griffiths accused of cheating on his wife in House of Commons.
  • Are you stuck away in your booth, while kids half your age cavort the night away?
  • In Daphne the occasion is a festival in honor of Dionysus and as is typically the case, the chorus and dancers cavort around in Looney Tunes-inspired fashion for several minutes. Archive 2007-08-01
  • I mean, it's such a frolicsome profession - cavorting and skipping around a store window arranging merchandise and props in full view of humanity.
  • Forty years later, Barrow takes The Queue and uses it as a highly idiosyncratic maypole around which stories of the brothers' childhood, adolescence and early adulthood cavort and whirl. Animal Magic: A Brother's Story by Andrew Barrow – review
  • It was an amateurish seascape with a great many small boats cavorting on a turbulent ocean. TIME TO MURDER AND CREATE
  • Maybe when they choose their next leader they will select one who will not cavort like a buffoon with football fans.
  • Colors cavorted behind her eyes for a few moments, disorienting her. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
  • You can enjoy a quick snack while your children cavort in the sand.
  • We asked some stragglers about it, and they said everybody went to the show looking very innocent; and laid low and kept dark till the poor old king was in the middle of his cavortings on the stage; then somebody give a signal, and the house rose up and went for them. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • The wild descriptions that follow of his madcap days cavorting around the edges of the world of Oz are the liveliest stretches of the book. Times, Sunday Times
  • On the floor, others were writhing about caressing themselves, and others cavorted with speakers or the edge of the stage. Fallin’ Up
  • Brian asked, grinning as he swayed easily with Cloudy's excited cavortings. Chronicles of Pern, First Fall
  • It was here in the 1950s that the then Duke discovered a Polaroid of his wife cavorting naked with another man - unidentifiable because his head had not been photographed.
  • In the Dance section, both dancers cavort with foam-stuffed doppelganger dummies that allow them to dance with themselves or drag and pitch their partners into the wings.
  • We don't "cavort" a whole lot, but we do play hard and we don't stay home just because it's wet out. Ain't nothin' like the real thing, baby (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • From a distance, the subjects resemble performers cavorting in a dance under stage lights.
  • With his schoolboy hips and abs to die for, Mick Jagger still cavorts, teases, taunts and leers in exactly the manner you expect him to.
  • A source close to Leo, one of his defenders, says since all the shooting has been at night, it's unlikely Leo's been cavorting off-set, or in Rome, during the wee hours.
  • NO late-night revelling, no booze-ups, no cavorting with local ladies: these are the usual diktats dispatched to players by their national coaches at World Cup time.
  • An energetic cast, headed by the unsinkable Helen Mirren as deposed Milanese royalty Prospera (here given a change of gender), cavorts through a digitally enhanced version of the Bard's tragicomic tale of exile, shipwreck, old wounds and young love set on a remote island. The Best of the Fest
  • And absolutely nothing is quite so ghastly sad as the sight of those same well-flushed, well-fleshed Germans cavorting about between the hours of two and four-thirty A.M., trying, with all the pachydermic ponderosity of Europe Revised
  • The dancers below are leaping and cavorting around a great fire.
  • Their strategy is, near as anybody can tell, to find every female Clinton might possibly have cavorted with.
  • They were spotted cavorting beside the swimming pool.
  • You will no longer be a malahini or newcomer and you've just cavorted around like a millionaire! Patricia Rust: How To Travel In Style In Waikiki
  • In the open water just off the reef, great swarms of damselfish cavorted, collecting plankton while barracuda cruised by trying to select an easy meal.
  • Ironically, when it comes to the sexually active throng cavorting in today's media, married people -or at least people married to each other- appear to be in a definite minority.
  • In the front, on another video screen, three well-built specimens cavorted on the tailgate of a pickup truck.
  • Sometimes, in the midst of its cavortings, a spray of darkness would spurt between its surfaces. EVERVILLE
  • An exuberant Bertelli danced, sang and cavorted among the huge throng at the Prada camp.
  • You see, the young female caught the young male cavorting with several other young females in amenage. The Monkeys and the Gun
  • A paper moon is bowled gently around the stage; big shadows cavort on the walls. Richard III; Lullaby; Hundreds & Thousands – review
  • But for the occasional grumbling, the Deitelhoff children sang songs, danced and cavorted around the barn while milking cows one November evening.
  • Its successful use of colourful counter characters such as Howard Brown, who cavorts to the music of ‘Sex Bomb’, has led to the expectation that Bank of Scotland branch staff could soon also become stars of the screen.
  • The photos showed her cavorting on the beach with her new lover.
  • Whether chewing the windowsill or cavorting around in the woods, she demands attention. Times, Sunday Times
  • The four spend the evening singing a bit, dancing, or perhaps more aptly cavorting, around the stage and impersonating the various types of their acquaintance, both male and female.
  • Lizzie has other ideas, however, and before long she's cavorting photogenically with Paolo, a sort of junior Enrique Iglesias who talks her into impersonating another famous musician.
  • The ears listen too, as this body starts to stretch and cavort, gracefully as possible on the uneven surface, then freezes in the beginnings of a movement. Slice of Lifeforce
  • Passing the stone outcropping, a solitary monolith holding sway against the boisterous sea, a pod of dolphins cavorted on the waves, adding their own sonorous clicks and whistles to the voices of the airborne choir.
  • Whiskey and beer flowed freely, and whites and Indians cavorted, copulated, and danced wildly around a maypole, a Pagan invention that had become the symbol of fun and leisure in villages across England. A Renegade History of the United States
  • The constituency party was far from pleased to learn that its new MP, who was married with a small child, had been cavorting with women on Greek islands.
  • Take your position instantly" - and now he pointed to where Bericus, Bwlch, Bedwyr, and Drustanus were trying to control the cavortings of their Libyan stallions. Black Horses For The King
  • Whiskey and beer flowed freely, and whites and Indians cavorted, copulated, and danced wildly around a maypole, a Pagan invention that had become the symbol of fun and leisure in villages across England. A Renegade History of the United States
  • The square was full of saints - cavorting, leaping, running, dancing, singing, screeching, chortling.
  • As the Flower Children who cavorted through the Summer of Love saunter through the autumn of their years, we all should encourage them to keep making love not war -- and to do so safely. Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Sexygenerians: Why the Taboo Against Candor, Safety With Senior Sex?
  • While she happily cavorted, I crept up to the huge white smooth box and gingerly touched it.
  • She cavorted about in the shallow water.
  • ‘You've got to have pretty clean-living guys,’ he said, referring to the need for players to get their rest instead of cavorting at all-night pubs.
  • She cuts loose at night however, cavorting around town with her boyfriend and perfecting the art of ‘swinging,’ i.e. sharing their beds with other couples.
  • Or go to your local nightclub on a Friday night - count the number of women cavorting about in bare midriffs, revealing necklines, and high-cut dresses.
  • Some accounts say she was the first wife of Adam who refused to lie beneath him and flew out of the Garden of Eden to cavort with demons, giving birth to hundred of the lamia each night. Slayed
  • St. Paul cavorted to Christianity. He preached holy acrimony, which is another name for marriage.
  • Penguins and seals cavort across the ice bergs blocking our way, but our ice-class ship just can't break through. Richard Bangs: Mind Sex with Strangers
  • They were spotted cavorting beside the swimming pool.
  • In the room outside the chamber, where the soundman sat giving me cues through a headset, a restorer also sat peering at a screen and guiding a cursor with a mouse, diligently erasing celluloid scratches and blots, frame by digital frame, from the bare bodies of hippies cavorting in a mud puddle. Excerpt: Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
  • After she threw a shutout with 28 saves, the Canadians cavorted on one end of the ice, the Americans stood watching in silence at the other. Rivalry that won't cool: Hot goalie lifts Canada (this time)
  • A population of costumed revelers cavorts in togas and turbans, feather boas and black leather, silver space suits and devil horns.
  • We have intense memories of seeing this film on TV in the early 1970s which, as far as we can recall, was uncut and featured so much unblushing cavorting that we became life long fans of Helen Mirren.
  • For the next sixteen months he lived a double life in the popular tourist resort, working as a bar man by day and cavorting with young women and prostitutes at night.
  • There was the calf and the children of Israel dancing and cavorting before it.
  • Her bold hands coax the thread through white cotton, relinquishing a fragment of the kaleidoscopic hues within her soul to cavort freely across the snowy landscape. A Michoacan tradition: the needlework artistry of Hermelinda Reyes
  • It is taken to mean black magic, or the cavortings of depraved charlatans—or both. The Templar Revelation
  • The gang of 25 youngsters, thought to be no older than 15, were seen and heard, drinking and cavorting at the Kings Meadow Road playing field, from 7.30 pm onwards on Friday.
  • They come across as skylarking high school and college kids as they cavort in the left field stands at Veterans Stadium.
  • Ibiza, of course, tends to attract those who actively seek public attention - why else would minor stars spend their nights cavorting on the dance floors of the island's mega nightclubs?
  • In a fit of fury, Pentheus attempts unsuccessfully to imprison Dionysus, who subsequently awakens Pentheus's salacious interest in the cavorting ladies.
  • You can enjoy a quick snack while your children cavort in the sand.
  • From what I understand, having a beer can lead to such cardinal sins as dancing and cavorting with wild women.
  • Every Saturday during football season, hundreds of men climb into foam and fur costumes to spend 90 minutes cavorting as club mascots.
  • What should concern us about the Khrushchev-Bulganin trip is not that they cavorted like clumsy elephants - in our judgment - but that they saw and were seen by millions. A Two Way Iron Curtain
  • They were cavorting, opinionated; they reminded her of the Quadlings with whom she had grown up. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
  • May you frolic and cavort and gambol and caper in a madcap series of wacky zany antics that are fondly remembered always. Will Durst: Summer: Day One
  • The most off-color moment is a harmless scene in which an old man, under the influence of some aromatic smoke, strips naked and cavorts around in a garden.
  • The gray-furred Child laughed, cavorting around the confused guards like a court jester in a medieval kingdom.
  • It's a typically riotous mix of oompah music-hall cavortings, slurred-pitch Middle Eastern rhapsodising, luxuriously sensuous clarinet love-songs, and stormy collective blasts reminiscent of the 1960s John Coltrane quartet. Gilad Atzmon Orient House Ensemble: The Tide Has Changed
  • Whiskey and beer flowed freely, and whites and Indians cavorted, copulated, and danced wildly around a maypole, a Pagan invention that had become the symbol of fun and leisure in villages across England. A Renegade History of the United States
  • You can enjoy a quick snack while your children cavort in the sand.
  • She cavorted about in the shallow water.
  • Sir Willard White was a superb Mephistopheles: his ‘Song of the Flea’ danced and cavorted, and he had plenty of menace when it was needed.
  • It's not unusual to see dolphins cavorting near the boat when in the tropics, but during one trip we saw a humpback whale lumbering along in its own beautiful way.
  • So while I slog through my day-to-day drudgeries, he is cavorting on the Champs-Elysées and decadently nibbling pain au chocolat on the Rive Gauche.
  • Around him, the demons dance, cavorting, whispering, dancing, muttering.
  • One bad apple—or one Brendan Yin cavorting with floozies—can do grievous harm to our ethnic reputation. InfiniDate
  • In Behind the Scenes at the Museum, a young girl happily cavorts in front of the TV screen broadcasting Elizabeth II's coronation; the moment simultaneously registers a shift in how the English experience their own history and a comical awareness of how "aslant" these experiences might prove to be. Three brief reviews
  • The monarchy is a little different from the cavortings of Duchess Fergie with assorted Texans. The Monarchy Will Prevail
  • But I think part of the way he did that was, as David mentioned, these were not the typical celebrity spoiled kids who are allowed to go - allowed to kind of cavort and go out and do whatever they want. CNN Transcript Apr 22, 2009
  • While she happily cavorted, I crept up to the huge white smooth box and gingerly touched it.
  • Yes, there might be the odd HUT figure who's cavorted aith real terrorists, just as there were a hardcore of Trots with shady associations with the IRA. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • When the dolphins appear the passengers hang onto buoy lines and squeal with delight as the mammals leap and cavort nearby.
  • People walk across the water; they cavort, splash, dance - and finally someone falls from a great height and vanishes entirely.

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