curvet

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for curvet
Verb
  • While his bandmates pranced around the stage with black dildos bobbing from their noses and top hats jauntily cocked, Forrest would open the show in a Joker-esque getup, holding a flaming Bible.
    Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2025
  • Alonso was Ferrari’s properly prancing horse back then.
    Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 21 May 2025
Verb
  • The reality star continued to post wedding highlights, including videos of himself and Blanco dancing together at their reception.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 14 July 2025
  • The soccer is the show, and fans provide music with their vocal cords and dancing with their hips.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 14 July 2025
Verb
  • Kyle Tucker loped into foul territory, caught it and completed the second World Series championship in Houston Astros history.
    Chandler Rome, New York Times, 28 June 2025
  • But longtime fans will recognize the idiosyncratic wordplay, loping syllables and ornate hooks that bend toward a major chorus, all as magnetic today as when Weaver barreled into view a decade ago.
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 16 June 2025
Verb
  • Superman has leapt past the $300 million mark at the domestic box office in less than three weeks in a major milestone for James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Studios.
    Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 31 July 2025
  • Before Patterson was hired to run the new 10-episode season, Judge and Daniels decided that the show would leap forward in time, allowing the characters to age and exist in the present day.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2025
Verb
  • This can include exploding upward with a vertical jump, bounding side to side, or swiftly changing directions.
    Jenny McCoy, SELF, 15 July 2025
  • Thanks to his coveted slot, Young bounds up the charts in the United Kingdom, as such a coveted slot can lead to a huge uptick in consumption.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • The dire wolves known to paleontologists, however, are different from the creatures that can now be viewed in Colossal videos gamboling in an open field.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • 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 7 Aug. 2025.

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