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Meanings of lark about in English
Synonyms
Examples for "sport"
Examples for "sport"
1
Organised sport has meant a great deal of different things throughout history.
2
He said the move would likely help children stay in sport longer.
3
The app includes breaking news, sport content and access to business news.
4
At least he was a good sport about the whole situation, right?
5
They can also provide good points of vantage, good sport-kickoff ,flight ,stopping
1
And in this cool freshness we hear the song of the lark:
2
A wicker cage, with a lark in it, hung in the window.
3
The lark began to soar and sing once more in English skies.
4
Actually, I thought The Human Centipede was a bit of a lark.
5
Alan has to be up with the lark to present Ireland AM.
1
Some of the young gentlemen in the town joined in the frolic.
2
They deserve a frolic before we set out to the far north.
3
After lunch, the young people went for a frolic in the snow.
4
After a while Nurse came in with baby and interrupted the frolic.
5
That is the fault with frolic; there is always an inescapable rebound.
1
For some it was a boisterous romp, for others a joyless reality.
2
Only in horse racing do rank outsiders regularly romp home as winners.
3
The sermon is discussed and the children forbidden to romp or laugh.
4
They really are selling the thing as some sort of careering romp.
5
No need to jeopardize either for a weekend romp with the boss.
1
Politely they asked if they might frisk me, then allowed me in.
2
The love of Nothus makes her frisk about like a wanton she-goat.
3
He gave the corpse a quick frisk pat-down that came up empty.
4
Whenever the fawn caught up, he was quite content to frisk about.
5
He sat down, he was so frightened he could not frisk about.
1
She has the flight of a skylark let out of a cage.
2
A skylark was the first target, and it fell for the ox.
3
Throstle and skylark to be admired must be heard at a distance.
4
You have all the quick and easy graces of the skylark.
5
To the ordinary observer the Indian skylark is indistinguishable from its European congener.
1
She set her pups down, and let them gambol on the grass.
2
Jan would probably gambol about him with never a thought of suspicion.
3
Winged mermen support the upper basin; sea-creatures gambol in the lower.
4
But I gambol in spirit like a hawk in the air.
5
Through the roofs and rafters gambol all sorts of wretched pests.
1
Pigeons were seen to always disport in the houses of the Vrishnis.
2
A garden would do me good, in which I could disport myself.
3
This is the night when unlicked cubs do disport themselves in our precincts.
4
There are avenues of water-pots, who disport themselves much in squirting up cascadelins.
5
Upon whose sloping shores disport the enormous mastodon, the stately megatherium, the tremendous-eh?
1
They didn't want to chat; they just wanted to watch Charlie cavort.
2
The professor did not cavort when this statement came from his daughter.
3
They nibble giant strawberries and cavort inside transparent spheres, naked as newborns.
4
During whale watching season, whales and their offspring cavort whilst canoeists carefully circle.
5
I'm a drunken, chemical-besotted playboy who does nothing but cavort, sleep, and feed.
1
And he had a good strong voice with a rollick in it.
2
Humour may rollick on high planes of fantasy or in depths of silliness.
3
Your friend Parrish was not a man you would expect to rollick, I imagine?''
4
Pocket full enough to have a rollick with you.
5
All this coming away and leaving him in that dreary place while I rollick in heaven.
1
I want to help save the city, not run around carrying gossip.
2
Combat sorcerers are too dangerous to be allowed to run around unsupervised.
3
You run around for five minutes, so I think it was tough.
4
Estimates of error rates in early RNA replication run around 20 percent.
5
Rats run around in them day and night and fight and squeak.
Usage of lark about in English
1
They must have been dining, sir, and seemed more inclined to lark about than to listen to good music.
2
The Unthanks tend to lark about onstage, but when they play they infuse their work with a rare sensuality and seriousness.
3
The height was over eighty feet; but the descent was a mere nothing for Dick, accustomed to lark about in the rigging of a man-o'-war.
4
Well, he larks about with 'em, but he just flirts for sport.
5
Suddenly the same group is a gang of children larking about at football.
6
Men were larking about on the bikes along a pavement stained with vomit.
7
Larking about, she spontaneously kisses him, taking his attention away from the control board.
8
At one level, it was just us kids larking about.
9
Antoinette was still larking about, and tugging at her brother to make him run.
10
Margot shook her head angrily- adangerousgame; he was larking about like a schoolboy.
11
He's larking about somewhere, that's what he's doing, leaving us to do all the work.
12
They think they can make money larking about.
13
Well, just to be safe, you're not to go larking about in them fields no more.
14
Larking about is what my father called it.
15
So what are we larking about here for?
16
Not quite the sort of place where you might expect to find Ireland's gastronomic bourgeois larking about.
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