Pirouettes

Word PIROUETTES
Character 10
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What do we mean by pirouettes?

A whirling or turning on the toes in dancing, primarily in ballet.

The whirling about of a horse.

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The word "pirouettes" in example sentences

Low murmurs gave way to silence as Totilas glided through trots, twirled pirouettes and burst into canters. ❋ Mary M. Lane (2011)

The character of Karl, the black-hearted soldier who has designs on the King's daughter, is a gift of a role for Ivan Putrov, the former Royal Ballet principal who, accompanied by a posse of military henchmen and fabulous snarls of brass and percussion from the orchestra pit, pirouettes and punches a thrilling streak of darkness through the action. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And John pirouettes to the next table, leaving us to chew. ❋ Richard Bangs (2011)

Rudy doesn't plod through life, he pirouettes over it. ❋ James Scarborough (2010)

For elementary- and middle-school students, the film becomes an entry point for their own dance-making, as well as for learning specific "Opus Jazz" movements like lunges, pirouettes and syncopated snapping and information about Robbins as a choreographer and director. ❋ Pia Catton (2011)

In director Georges Lavaudant's staging, aside from the ball's brief polkas and mazurkas—and a ballerina who periodically pirouettes in like a leftover Sugar Plum Fairy—the result is a series of soliloquies, set to music that can't seem to find its way—harsh, sharp, sour, aggressive, with fleeting nods to Tchaikovsky and other composers. ❋ Judy Fayard (2012)

In freestyle dressage—the most popular form—riders are given mandatory movements like walks, trots, and pirouettes to incorporate into a performance and choose music that fits the horse's gait. ❋ Mary M. Lane (2011)

Then, from around the bend, the raft comes flying in mid-current, Kramer whooping as he executes pivots and pirouettes between the waves and holes, moving every bit like the dancer he was in college. ❋ Richard Bangs (2011)

Daddy would beam a smile so deep it went right to his heart as she turned and did pirouettes in the living room, always with her right forefinger pressed to the top of her head. ❋ V.C.Andrews (2011)

A few times the story pirouettes on its tail to further convolute the proceedings, but a happy reader will lap up every progressive revelation with a grin of joy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But Teeraal pirouettes toward Eva, clutches her arm, and yanks her toward the mirror. ❋ F. J. Lennon (2011)

Of course, thanks to this movie that man also does pirouettes in the streets with this device, its engine growling manically, the sound gaining on you as it gets close enough so you can almost feel the teeth grinding individually. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Maybe he's just not strange enough -- although his left-right pirouettes bring him closer and closer to edge with every turn of his fungible positions. ❋ Dr. Peggy Drexler (2011)

The possibility that I might never get it all back waltzes across the floor of my worried thoughts at least once a day now, flaunting showstopping leaps and pirouettes, taking center stage for too long before exiting into the wings. ❋ Lisa Genova (2011)

Javier tells Abigail, "While you were practicing pirouettes and fouttés en tournant at Juilliard, I was busy mastering four languages, and by the time you graduated from NYU, I had the equivalent of two degrees, one in finance, the other in international studies." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bozo does a series of ungraceful pirouettes and spins in circles. ❋ F. J. Lennon (2011)

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