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

They danced a quickstep to The Muppet Show theme, from The Muppets Movie, on Saturday night and scored 25 points from the judges.

From BBC • Oct. 13, 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

The nervous strain produced by the excitement and danger gave them the malady called by the vets, the "cannon quickstep."

From War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 by Hitchcock, Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman)