prance
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The performers joked with them and made sure to prance by their table during their numbers.
From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2022
That’s why they were in position to prance jubilantly off the field when Dunlap thwarted Garoppolo’s fourth-down, last-gasp effort to add to the litany of painful finishes for the Seahawks this season.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2021
If pandemic dating requires I prance an imaginary catwalk in the parking lot of McDonald’s, then I’m out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2021
David Singleton’s vibrant choreography makes the most of the sparse cast, particularly when the actors prance around a pool table to the toe-tapper “The River Won’t Flow.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2021
And as I watched them prance and dance around the parking lot like sugared-up puppets, I told myself to stop rationing pleasure as if it were a paycheck.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
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Taita prances along rock walls and rolls in the dirt, meowing with his tail held high.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Mousseau said the team has grown close to some dogs, naming one Prancer because she excitedly prances around when she sees people.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
In The Unseen Queen, the BBC's beautiful documentary of family-filmed footage of the young princess, Lilibet prances and dances, pranks and laughs.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2022
And sometimes Mitski’s charming prances around the stage in her flowy dress or pantomimed door-knocking in “Should’ve Been Me” warranted a snapshot.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022
Spot turns and prances down the stairs.“Weatherman says a big storm is coming. Might be a hurricane. What I tell you?”
From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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I could see his wild imagination at work and his interest in being an entertainer as he pranced around the house doing Elvis impersonations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
It’s where Man o’ War, Seabiscuit, Secretariat and many others pranced to the winner’s circle.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2024
As a crowd of spectators cheered, some of the sheep pranced.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
Ramirez’s 4-year-old daughter - who pranced behind her mother, blowing bubbles and popping the ones that landed in her brown curls - has a lung condition.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2023
The Wart pranced round the edge, waving his own spear in an agony, but there, was nowhere where he dared to thrust it- in.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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Earlier in the evening, she performed a brief, bright rendition of “Man I Need,” prancing in time with her band for a crowd dense with stars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The beige and blue mosaic of a prancing bull surrounded by a coat of arms is meant to represent the city of Turin, which was the first capital of Italy.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
Yet the brand with the prancing horse logo took several years before deciding to throw its hat into the all-electric ring.
From Barron's ● May 26, 2026
Suddenly, the rock god who only three years prior hit his commercial apex with “Let’s Dance,” a master of artistic shapeshifting who pioneered music videos long before MTV existed, was prancing around with Muppets.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026
He could see Svadilfari now, shaking his head and almost prancing in the wildflowers of the spring meadow.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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