ballerina

Example Sentences

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The story is completely absurd, filled with plot holes and characters as thin as a prima ballerina.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

A native of Brazil, she was a professional ballerina in Austria for nine months before moving to America to attend MIT, where she met her co-founder, Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot was born in Paris in 1934 to a wealthy family, who wanted her to become a ballerina.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025

The writer Jia Tolentino characterized it as “what a ballerina might do if you concussed her and then made her snort caffeine pills.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 11, 2025

“It’s how you feel about who you are that counts. Hummph,” she said, twirling around on her toes like a ballerina with bad feet.

From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake