How to Use gallivant in a Sentence

gallivant

verb
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  • He's been gallivanting around the country when he ought to be looking for a job.
  • They've been gallivanting all over town.
  • The video panels between the pair of star artists and the clique of kids gallivanting throughout the scene.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2018
  • The video sees both Galantis and Uffie gallivanting around Tokyo after the friendly trio meets up in a crowded sidewalk.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 18 May 2018
  • And each year on Halloween, Zane and Aidan, and a hundred neighbors circle his house to see all the skeletons and pumpkins that gallivant as a gargoyle rides her.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Below, see how Atkin—and her glamorous group—gallivanted through Italy.
    — Vogue, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Such as, say, a timestamped itinerary for a day of gallivanting around Boston.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023
  • How did this couple go from gallivanting at furniture stores in fancy sweatpants to breaking up in such a short span?
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 15 Oct. 2018
  • England was not among the top 10 nations in ticket sales before the tournament, but the team's progress caused gallivanting supporters to flock to Moscow.
    — Ronald Blum, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2018
  • Spooner gallivanted about Greece in bright yellow Calvin Klein briefs, Prada bucket hats, and his signature sheer shirts, of course.
    — Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 14 Sep. 2018
  • For the past few weeks, it’s been assumed Kate was left behind in England to look after their two young children while William was gallivanting in another country.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2017
  • High-level quarterbacks don’t usually gallivant around the league like this.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2018
  • Not every moment was fun, but the overall experience was joyful through and through—even more joyful than gallivanting around Greece on an ATV.
    — Sarah Firshein, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Additionally, that two naive teens would just go gallivanting around with little to no regard to their plans or safety.
    — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 4 Mar. 2019
  • Westerns have always been records of their present moments, even as their heroes gallivant against landscapes with an outsized hold on history.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2023
  • When the Jets sing, van Hove projects recorded footage of the cast gallivanting around Brooklyn, chewing on gold chains and mugging for the camera in pastiches of rap-music videos, which dwarfs the actors with their own gigantic images.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Behind every savvy explorer is a dashing travel bag — wanderlust-y tourists would not be able to gallivant around the world without the help of some trustworthy luggage.
    — Alexandra Polk, refinery29.com, 10 May 2021
  • Vallotton made images not just of the consumerism of the age — the shopping, gallivanting and dancing in the Latin Quarter — but also street protests, clashes with police, a carriage accident and murder.
    — Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2019
  • The look-alike pair have been gallivanting around New York City, as supermodels do, looking gorgeous on the red carpet, also as supermodels do.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Approved bars and restaurants are permitted to extend their patios to the sidewalk, and pedestrians are free to gallivant with impunity for three hours before the games begin and an hour after the final buzzer sounds.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2023
  • That’s exactly what the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office said after one of its deputies was forced to wrangle a gallivanting bull recently.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 23 May 2018
  • In happier times, people were free to gallivant around Trollpikken's picturesque prick, oftentimes posing directly on it.
    — Lilian Min, Cosmopolitan, 26 June 2017
  • Lucy remembers their first couple of years at Bennington as an idyll of hot chocolate by the fireplace and dreams of gallivanting in Paris and Budapest, but Alice’s recollections are more uncertain.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2018
  • Since this was filmed before our current situation, the chefs are shown doing things that now seem surreal, like gallivanting around grocery stores, the shelves and meat counters fully stocked, and wandering through the Getty Museum.
    — Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 12 Apr. 2020
  • Dawn began to relay the day's adventure, along with many of the other adventures that regularly gallivanted in Luke's imagination.
    — Lisa Baker Gibbs, Arkansas Online, 29 June 2023
  • This fictitious Sherrinford frees up both Mycroft and Sherlock to go gallivanting on adventures.
    — Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 5 Jan. 2017
  • South Floridians will be able to enjoy the cooler temperatures through Halloween giving trick or treaters pleasant gallivanting weather.
    — Tonya Alanez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • White's talk did not dismiss more contemporary modes of listening to music -- or experiencing any art, for that matter -- but the 35-minute session made a convincing case for the value of vinyl, speaking to but also gallivanting the converted.
    — Gary Graff, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2017
  • Once finished gallivanting around Europe with his sister Felicity and best friend Percy, he is expected to join his father in managing the family estate and to marry a woman from the proper social class.
    — Christine Heppermann, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2017
  • This story of bumbling boors, chiseling social climbers, and simpering fops gallivanting and scheming around the London countryside is crisply performed by a uniformly excellent cast.
    — Steve Heisler, Chicago Reader, 10 July 2017

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