- present participle of pirouette.
pirouetting
Example Sentences
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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
It also discovered 300 new locations across the country for pink waxcap, also known as the ballerina waxcap as its cap flares out like a pirouetting dancer.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025
He amassed nearly 400 videos showing great apes and other primates engaged in spinning behaviors, including somersaulting, rolling down hills, backflipping and pirouetting.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
Elsewhere in the country, ballets are also pirouetting up from the page.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2023
The physics that works for falling bodies and pirouetting ice skaters down here in the microcosm of the Earth makes galaxies up there in the macrocosm of the universe.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
