pirouette

In Hover mode, the joystick provides fine-grained yaw control, allowing the BlackFly to execute its surreal pirouette.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

VAR disallowed the goal because they've said it's a careless challenge - but it's not a challenge, it's a pirouette in the middle of the pitch.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025

One had to perform a double leap and pirouette to avoid the leaders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2025

During so-called learning walks, the animals then explore the immediate surroundings around the nest entrance and repeatedly pirouette around their own body axis with short stops in between.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2024

She did a sprightly pirouette, a curtsy, waved her hand in a window-washer motion, and said, “Hi.”

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

"I had the time of my life there. It's not a stage-stage school, but of course there's kids doing pirouettes and going 'Aaaaaahhhhh!' in the hallways," Adele told BBC 4 radio in 2022.

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026

Watching Zsa-zsa do his verbal pirouettes, I thought fondly of a former boyfriend, an indie film producer, who helped me buy a new car and talked the price down $3,000.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2025

It was his dance teacher who filmed the young boy in June 2020 as he practised pirouettes barefoot in the rain.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2023

Shortly after launching on 1 July, the European space observatory Euclid started performing tiny, unexpected pirouettes.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 10, 2023

I expected us to immediately move on to greater things, like arabesques, grands jetés, and pirouettes, but we couldn’t.

From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince

Finally Tele'a, forced back into the fray on 66 minutes by an injury to Beauden Barrett having been replaced, pirouetted through Ford's tackle and held off Harry Randall to dot down.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2024

On a recent afternoon, 18 members of Birmingham Royal Ballet spun, pirouetted and leaped across a rehearsal room, with all the grace and skill associated with classical dance.

From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2023

Union resisted Madrid’s first 29 goal attempts but the 30th proved too much when Jude Bellingham pirouetted to finish a game of pinball in the goalmouth and shoot into an empty net.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

Gilgeous-Alexander made three step-back three-pointers in the third quarter and, after the last, pirouetted toward one section of the lower bowl and smiled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2021

Even as their nemesis prowled the nursery, the Horrible Incorrigibles whined, punched, dueled, and pirouetted all the way to the bakehouse.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

She did it again on the very next possession, this time coming down from the top of the key, pirouetting into the paint and dropping in the easy two-footer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025

Elsewhere in the country, ballets are also pirouetting up from the page.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2023

It’s assumed that the audience, without nudging, sees the ridiculousness of showing a genocidal monster pirouetting on skates.

From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2023

His incredible skill, balletic balance and pirouetting moves bamboozled Brazil, and his free kick set up Henry for a volley - the only goal of the match.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 17, 2022

I looked in the mirror at our reflection, at the twelve girls, sleek and shiny, pirouetting blurs of black, white and pink.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover