pirouette
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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
One had to perform a double leap and pirouette to avoid the leaders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2025
A flick, followed by a pirouette and pass into Adams was another highlight.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 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
Harry doubled up with silent laughter as Crabbe did a kind of pirouette in midair, trying to see who had thrown it.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
"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
Yet, their conversation always pirouettes back to the gap between the real world and the movies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
The virtuoso Roman Mejia is ever the dashing hero, topping off pirouettes and twisting leaps with poses of flexed arms and fists.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
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
He appears as nervous as me, which is amazing, since he can do an average of thirteen pirouettes, no matter the shoe, and I wasn’t even sure what a pirouette was all these years.
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
Moments before the break, prop Luke Yates pirouetted elegantly past Cooper Jenkins to slide in next to the sticks as Irwin levelled the scores with the boot as half-time approached.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
“What is dancing?” he asked jurors as he pranced and pirouetted across the room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025
Rather than poignant goodbyes, Hearst opted for lively samba beats, leaving an indelible mark on the onlookers as she lithely pirouetted past guests carefree alongside one of Brazil’s most reputed Samba schools.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
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
Whereupon Amarante Cordova, shining in a triumphal light, pirouetted clumsily in the middle of the plaza area to acknowledge the attention and admiration of any other onlookers.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
Playing the Dead’s “Blues for Allah” on this tour — an LP rooted in Middle Eastern scales, pirouetting time signatures and improvisational telepathy — put him in communion with his old friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
Imagine playing as Mario, pirouetting through the Mushroom Kingdom as a waft of a Fire Flower power-up hits you.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2025
Pulling myself up a little taller, I began pirouetting to a waltz from Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2023
This iron-rich dancer is capable of pirouetting at ever-changing speeds.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2023
When he swept back inside, pirouetting my mother, it seemed the perfect moment to ask.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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