jig
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I had my fingers crossed that “Late Night” would haul out Mee-Maw for one last jig when it returned on Monday.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
Maresca's relief was palpable as he danced a jubilant jig on the touchline.
From Barron's ● Dec. 20, 2025
On “Jaundice,” a stomping upbeat jig with accordion and saxophone reflecting Mr. Ellis’s interest in older folk forms, each drum hit bursts out of the speakers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
“As soon as the sheriffs were called, they walked out of the building. They knew that their jig was up.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025
Olive danced a little jig and sang, “The Bird, the Bird, the Bird! Emma and Jacob saved the Bird!”
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
The emotion flooded out as he jigged and wheeled across the green.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2025
So his marbles smashed straight while the other boys’ jigged.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2019
When Jerzy Dudek jigged about during the 2005 Champions League final, his gentle, understated contortions put the fear of God into Andrea Pirlo.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 1, 2012
Elizabeth, her 90-year-old husband Prince Philip and the other senior royal family members even jigged in time to the strains of "Rule Britannia" as the last vessel carrying an orchestra and drenched singers serenaded her.
From Reuters ● Jun. 4, 2012
But he waved his arms, he shouted with the best of them; and when the others began to jig and stamp and shuffle, he also jigged and shuffled.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
The steady, rhythmic yank, then drop of the rod tip, makes this an active version of fishing called jigging.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2023
Through the darkness, I can make out a single figure casting and jigging at the end of the wooden walk.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
Hybrids and sand bass are slow off main lake points and humps with white slabs, white swimbaits, and jigging spoons.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 20, 2021
White bass and hybrids are fair on live bait, slabs, and jigging spoons on flats and humps.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 20, 2021
Not hum round in the way it did, jigging to music, whirling in a sea of faces.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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