Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for capriole
Verb
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Children romped around in the park’s playground while adults went from booth to booth speaking with various vendors and gathering resource handouts.—
Marianne Love,
Daily News,
30 Jan. 2026 -
My wife made a huge pot of soup to help keep us warm, my son created a path with a snowblower so that our dogs could romp in the snow.—
Letters to the Editor,
Hartford Courant,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The couple employed local craftsmen to clear the area and built two terraces supported by drystone walls using the same techniques once employed for cultivating capers.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
8 Feb. 2026
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Alternatively, combine with tomato, garlic, capers, and olives for a puttanesca-style pasta sauce.—
Ranyechi Udemezue,
Vogue,
6 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Mobs attacked television vans and set cars ablaze as overrun hospitals struggled to cope with scores of injured people.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
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The complication is not well understood but appears to be the result of the virus prompting the immune system to attack a certain protein that some brain cells produce.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
5 Feb. 2026
Noun
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In 2021, one year into D’Amaro’s tenure and following COVID shutdowns, Disney did away with FastPass and introduced a confounding and very costly series of pay-to-skip passes, which require timing advanced booking of limited slots in these formerly free-to-enter shorter lines.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
5 Feb. 2026
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The neighborhood/area Most guests at Chablé skip over thesmall town of Chocholá where the resort is located.—
John Newton,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Feb. 2026
Verb
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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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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
Noun
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So Illinois will be in unfamiliar bounce-back territory, as will freshman guard Keaton Wagler, who finished the night 2-for-16 from the floor, but 10-for-12 from the free-throw line.—
Colleen Kane,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
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The Aggies need a bounce-back in the worst way.—
Tony Catalina,
Austin American Statesman,
10 Feb. 2026
Verb
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The estate more or less promises an unlimited school yard for guests of all ages to frolic through and get all of their pent up energy out.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 Feb. 2026
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The trucks hauling the snow frolicked in the water, sending dirty gray ripples toward me.—
Naaman Zhou,
New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Gabriel Martinelli was next on the scene, then Jurrien Timber, who was followed by a jubilant William Saliba, cavorting like a hyperactive toddler.—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Performers dance onstage, festoon the rafters overhead and cavort throughout the room in a 90-minute extravaganza.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
20 Jan. 2026
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“Capriole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capriole. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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