quickstep

Example Sentences

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Back in the actual 1990s, ice dancers cycled through traditional dances: samba, blues, polka, rumba, quickstep, tango, jive, paso doble, Viennese waltz.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

The quickstep and jive hailed from an era of Brylcreem and Butlin's holidays.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2023

Feeling safe and among their own, they made many friends there while polishing off their tango and quickstep.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2023

In Monday night’s bouncy quickstep, Rigsby matched Burke’s movements more closely, and though his steps still lacked crispness, he was light on his feet and never betrayed a blink of fatigue.

From Washington Post • Oct. 19, 2021

You will have no dancing, unless a mad bull gallops after you, when, no doubt, you will practise double quickstep to perfection.

From The Two Story Mittens and the Little Play Mittens Being the Fourth Book of the Series by Fanny, Aunt