(v. i.) To prance ostentatiously; -- said of a horse or his rider.
Example Sentences:
(1) So Richard arose as himself again, a dreadful apparition cavorting.
(2) Unutma Meni (Don't Forget Me) features the 33-year-old brunette under the stage name GooGoosha - apparently her father's name for her - cavorting in a cartoon wonderland where she travels to a secluded castle and a tropical island in a limousine that floats through the air.
(3) Dadd's three paintings Puck (1841), A Fairy – Sunset (1841-42) and Come unto these Yellow Sands (1842) are elegant and precise – the Puck is a baby, sitting on a mushroom in moonlight under a columbine dripping with dewdrops, among grasses also beaded with water, and watches much smaller naked dancers cavorting below him.
(4) Lucas Moura, Robinho and Kaká will also have the opportunity to enjoy some Me Time this summer, while Manchester City and Everton favourite Jô cavorts about in gold and blue.
(5) Cavorting in Grantchester’s meadows, Brooke told the naked Gardner: “You’ve rather a beautiful body.” Gardner, letting her hair down, offered to dry him with her tresses, with “why shouldn’t we be primitive, now?” Her desires were obvious, but his were tormented.
(6) I am not going to punish you, I just want you to explain to the people and me how do I show off?” asks Kadyrov, who routinely posts photos to his Instagram account of him beating underlings in mixed martial-arts fights, hosting celebrities and other high-profile visitors, and cavorting with his collection of exotic animals.
(7) A bargain basement Benny Hill he may be, but the prime minister fonder of cavorting with young women than keeping promises to the world's poorest countries has helped expose what a cynical shambles the G8 summit has become.
(8) This is, after all, a musician, actress and multimedia performance artist who as a kid attended a nursery school where there were rumoured to be satanic cults, afterwards confessing that she was pissed off that there actually weren't; who appeared in a Calvin Klein "heroin chic" ad campaign that led to dope dealers on her block in New York naming a strain of junk after her; who has been a wrestler and appeared in numerous Super 8 horror and fetish movies; who was mugged to within an inch of her life but survived; who mimes onstage fornication with a skeleton symbolising her deceased boyfriend and other such transgressive acts including cracking paint-filled eggs on her vulva; who has cavorted in the recording studio with notorious coprophiliac GG Allin; who was into body mutilation and dysmorphia and so wanted to challenge preconceived notions of female sexuality that she SEWED UP HER VAGINA.
(9) Early in 1999 a government-controlled TV channel aired a grainy video which purported to show Skuratov cavorting in bed with a couple of prostitutes.
(10) Stand back from the cavorting as Rupert hits crisis-torn Wapping (episode 97) and ask the question that's been dogging News Corporation ever since the phone hacking swamp began.
(11) If it's not Miley Cyrus licking a sledgehammer , it's Robin Thicke cavorting with naked women or Lily Allen having liposuction and getting dancers to twerk for her.
(12) The France coach had predicted a fight to the last eight and, while others cavorted around the technical area, he held his beaten opponent’s hand with the respect the Republic of Ireland deserved.
(13) The undertow of barely suppressed concern was evident at a pre-kickoff press conference in the bowels of the Stade de France that began with the official mascot, Super Victor , cavorting with the DJ David Guetta, who will appear at the opening ceremony, but ended with a slew of questions on security and strikes.
(14) Lady Gaga's performance on ITV's the X Factor, in which the singer cavorted on stage in flesh-coloured underwear and a bra made out of a pair of shells, has been cleared of breaking UK broadcasting rules.
(15) Therefore Assad should not be surprised if one day he finds that, while Iran supports him publicly, behind the scenes its leaders are anticipating his demise by cavorting with members of the Syrian opposition.
(16) Photograph: Sam Frost The Marvel character Thor can be spotted at Stonehenge in a story called Day of the Deadly Druid and both Scooby-Doo and Xena: Warrior Princess have also cavorted around cartoon versions of the monument.
(17) He tells me that Boris had suggested that Edward and Gaveston cavorted in a palace built in 1325, even though Gaveston had been executed in 1312.
(18) Perhaps these two men had been cavorting about on a busy beach strutting their stuff in front of everyone, petting each other or even propositioning people?
(19) 1: Cavorting courtesans At the work's heart is one of the most sumptuous collections of nudes ever painted.
(20) The emotions ran wild at full time, with the travelling supporters cavorting in delight and Dick Advocaat breaking down in tears for what he would later say was the first time in his long career.
Prance
Definition:
(v. i.) To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle.
(v. i.) To ride on a prancing horse; to ride in an ostentatious manner.
(v. i.) To walk or strut about in a pompous, showy manner, or with warlike parade.
Example Sentences:
(1) "There's this mistaken idea we were just prancing about in platform shoes and bare bums to go against the grain.
(2) Other signs included a short prancing gait with head tucked in a similar manner to that of a show pony.
(3) [Would] there by any objections to the Gay Gordons performing and prancing on that occasion too?” the MoD asked.
(4) In dogs delta 9-THC but not delta 9-11-THC produced classical cannabimimetic signs including static ataxia, hyperreflexia, prancing and tail-tuck.
(5) He served as ringmaster, prancing on and off stage as fellow presidential candidates, combat veterans and YouTube celebrities all took turns paying tribute both to Trump and those who have served in the US armed forces.
(6) You need to know a bit of marine mammal psychology: if you chase after them, they’ll treat you with disdain, but if you figure out what makes them tick, they’ll dance with you under water for hours, pirouetting and prancing around you in an intoxicating aquatic ballet.
(7) Xan Brooks Dance on your own like everybody's watching Lost River had Ben Mendelsohn frugging in pursuit of a frigging, In the Name of My Daughter played "African drums" and let star Adèle Haenel engage in some tribal two-step, and The Search saw a young Chechen refugee forget the murder of his parents by prancing around to the Bee Gees.
(8) He prances around his estate, abusing his slaves as though they're characters in a sadistic game of The Sims.
(9) The scientists include Sir Ghillean Prance, former director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Thomas Lovejoy, chief biodiversity adviser to the president of the World Bank; Prof Omar R. Masera, director of the bioenergy lab at the National University of Mexico and Nobel laureate on behalf of the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and others from Oxford, Stanford and Imperial College, London.
(10) A drummer called Martin Joyce and a bassist, whose name I couldn't remember, dragged my naked body through the undergrowth to a campfire where lawyers and record executives pranced, danced and tranced to a third rate David Bowie soundtrack.
(11) A petition set up by the group has more than 1,000 signatures , including Sir Ghillean Prance, former head of the world-renowned Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew.
(12) Well, legendary German goalkeeper Sepp Maier clearly does now, as Timo Staudacher recalls: "On May 15 1976, during the Bundesliga match between Bayern Munich and VfL Bochum, a duck landed close to Maier's goal and started prancing about the six-yard box.
(13) Dario Fo has been prancing around dressed as a short, fat Silvio Berlusconi every night this week, in front of a roaring Roman audience.
(14) China must let those prancing provocateurs know how much of a price they pay when they deliberately rile us.
(15) Prince continues to prance around London like the Pied Piper, drawing faithfully queuing hordes this way and that.
(16) Getting out your phone to show your date a hilarious YouTube video of prancing pygmy goats (everyone does this, right?)
(17) Outside the Congress Center in Etobicoke, a western suburb of Toronto, a man with a demon mask pranced in the street holding a sign that said “Welcome to Harperland”.
(18) He has an onstage fool, Jacky, who dances and prances wearing Auschwitz-style pyjamas, complete with yellow star.
(19) Cue tears on the pitch and much laughter from the visiting fans, who had witnessed thousands of idiots prancing around, only to collectively fall to their knees as the news spread."
(20) The dancers fearlessly responded to the acute violence of the previous night’s events by prancing and voguing .