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

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

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2023

Odudu, 33, scored her first perfect 40 for a quickstep during last Saturday's semi-final.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2021

Carrie Ann calls it “a little wild” and cautions him to watch his posture, but she likes that it had way more passion than you usually see in a quickstep.

From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2020

So I ruther like the contrast when I hear the whiplash crack A quickstep fer the hosses, When the Hearse Comes Back!

From The Old Soldiers Story Poems and Prose Sketches by Riley, James Whitcomb