Example Sentences

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Pirouettes – or, alternatively, fouettés – are a cinematic gift.

From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2011

Pirouettes involved spinning on one foot and were difficult to do.

From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene

That blackguard of a Harlequin Pirouettes, and plots to win      His Colombine that flits and flies.

From Silhouettes by Symons, Arthur