pirouette
Example Sentences
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“They spin pirouettes on their feet; they do backflips; they roll on their side; they do somersaults forward; they roll down hills, spin on ropes,” Perlman says.
From Scientific American
The caged animals, removed from the complex environment of their natural habitat, periodically pace, rock, even pirouette — formalized movements that emerge as necessary antidotes to boredom and confinement.
From Los Angeles Times
Pulling myself up a little taller, I began pirouetting to a waltz from Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake.”
From Washington Post
It’s assumed that the audience, without nudging, sees the ridiculousness of showing a genocidal monster pirouetting on skates.
From New York Times
Woe betide the conductor if he comes in too early after the ballerina’s pirouettes.
From New York Times
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