How To Use Ballroom In A Sentence

As we reported in 2008, the old ballroom floor had been ruined by leaks and could not be saved. Times, Sunday Times
Who would have thought in the age of grime and dubstep that ballroom dancing would glide back into vogue? Times, Sunday Times
The groundsmen were busy clearing every last flake of snow Inside the orchestra was practising in the ballroom; the photographers. WEB OF DREAMS
It's a huge room - four big ballrooms joined together, acres of tables, a thousand and one chairs.
My uncle Paul was a master brassfounder; but when he retired he set up a most successful ballroom dancing academy. Its A Grand Old Name

It had evidently been the ballroom or reception-room of the defunct Marchesa in palmy days. The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
As diners savoured their delicious Chocolate marquise and sipped their coffee and tea, the ballroom's lights dimmed and the audience stilled as the evening's program began.
When I was eight years old I started my first dance school doing disco, rock and roll and also ballroom and latin.
Counts, knights, barons and marquesses gathered in the guilded ballroom of the hotel to mark the focal event of the aristocratic social calendar.
As the last words came hoarsely forth on to the night air, _clang, clang, clang_, burst out the tocsin of the alarm bell, silencing the music in the ballroom and sending an electric thrill through every listener within the precincts of the castle; but ere the great bell had sent forth a score of vibrating notes which came quivering through the darkness and echoing from every wall, the clattering of hoofs began in obedience to the whispered commands of his Majesty of France: The King's Esquires The Jewel of France
In 2008, she founded her own film festival in Nairn in Scotland, entitled the Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams. Tilda Swinton: We need to talk about eccentricity | Observer profile
However, ballroom dancing also includes the higher impact tango, fox-trot, cha-cha, and samba.
The waltz, foxtrot, tango and quickstep are danced in rapid-fire succession in each ballroom round while salsa steps up the beat to let Latin competitors loosen up a little and go through the paces of the rhumba, samba and cha cha.
The boss of the ballroom excused them the fee.
Maybe Bachelor jiltee Melissa Rycroft brought the ratings momentum with her, or maybe America is as obsessed with jailbird Lil 'Kim's ballroom dancing as I am. Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider
Under the baleful eye of the concierge, I head for the stairs down to the ballroom. Times, Sunday Times
When he walked into the ballroom Leon saw a circle of candles arranged loosely around her.
Again we become aware of how gracefully the sun and earth waltz with each other through the ballroom of space-time, eliciting awes and hallelujahs. Wes Nisker: Worship The Sun! (Not Just The Son)
There were no ballrooms here, no antechambers upon antechambers, no retinues of servants and footmen.
Arc lights and packed ballroom meant profuse sweating, not only for the four contenders for the grand silver bowl but everyone present there.
Meanwhile, inside the Grand Hyatt's Independence Ballroom, 273 spellers celebrated the complexity of our language in all its glory, correctly spelling words like zaibatsu, vibrissae and biauriculate, according to The Associated Press. Moultrie Observer Homepage
The crowd began to uncouple from their conversations, and Floyd launched his dinghy onto the dark waters of the Chateau de Ville Ballroom and Function Facilities. Nuptial Indemnity
the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom
But instead of staying to shake hands, to move from table to table, to take names and phone numbers, to marshal some of this excitement for that "door-to-door" movement he had envisioned, Sharpton abruptly strode from the ballroom and the hotel. Pompadour With a Monkey Wrench
Close by the inn stood the ancient church, and the shrill, discordant clack of the cracked bell could be distinctly heard in the ballroom.
The Wigwam Resort is turning its ballroom into a football stadium with a huge rear-projection screen flanked by Roman Colosseum-like pillars.
We moved on to the under construction grand ballroom set with its twin curved staircases which surround a massive pipe organ (sound familiar?) Boing Boing: April 27, 2003 - May 3, 2003 Archives
Around the central atrium on the main level are five major spaces: a reception room, library, dining room, billiard room, and ballroom.
One of the highlights is the Sicilian baroque ballroom with its Murano glass chandeliers. Times, Sunday Times
The castle itself now attracts around 80,000 visitors a year willing to pay £6 for a guided tour of the biggest room in the house - the ballroom - and the gardens.
The school, which teaches everything from ballroom and latin to tap and street, has been established for thirty nine years.
Sometimes, the "zooty" was my pharm-fueled metronome as I danced dementedly through a gauzy awareness in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Diplomat. Barry Michael Cooper: Requiem For The Zooted
The visitors were herded into two large halls, which were once the hotel ballroom and dining room.
Under the baleful eye of the concierge, I head for the stairs down to the ballroom. Times, Sunday Times
Mention ballroom dancing and most people think of smiling couples dressed in designer suits and glitzy dresses waltzing, quickstepping and foxtrotting across the hardwood.
In a warren of hangar-sized hotel ballrooms in Orlando, military engineers this week showed off their next generation of robots, as they got the machines ready for the war zone.
Back in 1978 Michael Bennett conceived a Broadway musical called Ballroom, in which silver-haired dancers looked back at their younger selves.
We watched a few more songs down at the front then retreated to the ballroom bar to watch the rest of the set with the other old gits.
In Detroit, ironically for me, the celebration took place in the ballroom of the Renaissance Center.
The movie follows three schools into a ballroom dancing competition.
If hypocrisy was a ballroom dance, she'd be top of the leaderboard. The Sun
A moment later he had been dragging her, tray and all, through one of the doors into the vast ballroom.
But patrons were equally taken with White City's enjoyable attractions, including several roller coasters, a chute-the-chutes, two ballrooms, inexpensive eats, and its landmark Electric Tower.
The dancers who twirl their way to the top of the leaderboard will get to perform at the spectacular old-world ballroom. The Sun
The casino resort also features three ballrooms and 30 meeting rooms with a total of 80,000 square feet of meeting and convention space.
Eleanor walked into the ballroom with the grace of a dancer, poised and elegant.
Coloured cut outs of red hearts, and heart-shaped balloons, decorated the walls and roof in the dimly lit ballroom.
But what would then be the case with an exhibition or competition of ballroom dancing?
The Berkeley Court Hotel's opulent ballroom with its lofty ceiling, tall mirrors and huge chandeliers offers the perfect backdrop for a glamorous night.
Epitomizing Sokurov's ambivalence, the narrator scoffs at the film's climactic (or should I say inevitable?) ballroom dance yet expresses regret at having to leave.
My father was a ballroom dancer. The Sun
A ballroom, two boardrooms and five meeting rooms are also on the cards.
He is a competitive ballroom dancer. Times, Sunday Times
Speak, ye ballroom frequenters, how would you skip, even with the light of brilliant eyes to encourage you, if there were not what you call a jolly good supper somewhere in the background? Red Rooney The Last of the Crew
UCT returns victorious from PE after winning the ballroom and latin intervarsity. Intervarsity ballroom: UCT Kicks butt
There were no ballrooms here, no antechambers upon antechambers, no retinues of servants and footmen.
I dropped across a friend at the ballroom.
But there were almost certainly vast chambers and ballrooms that remained in the dark.
Giggling I walked down the stairs following the rose petal trail, which led in to the ballroom.
However, the bands back then typically played in elegant ballrooms with an audience full of dancers who waltzed, foxtrotted and jitterbugged the evening away, and their music was the vernacular of the day. Not Your Grandpa's Big Bands
The ballroom's huge, with windows all the way round .
Stroman's endlessly inventive choreography blends many forms of dance - from ballroom to jazz to ballet - into an idiom that's both witty and muscular.
Shirley usually used enough to deodorize a ballroom. The Hanging Tree
We saw the iceberg coming but we were too busy dancing in the ballroom to take action to avoid it.
It was the same as teaching ballroom everywhere: you were part dance teacher, part well-mannered gigolo.
The hotel ballroom was also full of famous bottles from the great chateaux of Bordeaux and these two California wines held their own without a problem.
The boss of the ballroom excused them the fee.
The ballroom's lofty wood-panelled ceiling and tall seaward windows evoke another more gracious age.
Rapture's ballroom in happier days by Craig Mullins. Rapture's heyday; Big Daddy desktop wallpapers
First was the huge ballroom, covering the whole 3rd floor.
He led the two to the sidelines, knowing they need not air their private affairs in the middle of the ballroom.
It is much smoother and more intimate than the ballroom tango, with the couple's upper bodies close together and lower bodies apart.
His ensemble dances with élan on a tiny stage in the ballroom scene. Times, Sunday Times
There were ballrooms, three dining rooms, a social hall, beauty and barbershops, four bars, a Grand Salon and other entertainment salons.
Dance styles included contemporary, hip-hop, ballroom, salsa, rumba, quickstep, jive and street styles such as krumping and popping. RGJ.com - Latest News
It is thought work to redecorate the interior of the ballroom will start in the next couple of months.
His two brothers followed their father into the law but Merce's future was honed in the dance studios of Maude Barrett, where he studied tap, ballroom and soft shoe, while enjoying many opportunities to perform.
But this is a whole new territory for me with ballroom. The Sun
Nicholas Hotel, a costume party with the Mayor present and the ballroom packed with people stamping their feet and clapping.
She has even mastered some ballroom dance steps, which form part of the choreographed routines for the show.
Wine tasters have their own vocabulary or jargon, just like other groups of enthusiasts: computer geeks, ballroom dancers, etc.
He stood in the ballroom entrance and acknowledged the applause with a small bow.
They sought private instruction, and for the next three years they danced six days a week and twice on Sundays, learning the intricacies of smooth ballroom dances, such as foxtrot, swing, cha cha, tango, waltz and rumba, and spending upwards of $28,000 for lessons in the process. Naplesnews.com Stories
Grace rests at the side of the small ballroom as she watches Carey dance a polka with Johnny Pritchett.
Strictly is only officially a ballroom dance competition; unofficially, it is a weekly poll of celebrity popularity. Times, Sunday Times
Why do it in a ballroom when you are clearly doing your partner a serious disservice? The Sun
Something like a polite cocktail party is taking place in a chintzy antechamber to the London Hilton's Grand Ballroom.
The main hall has stone pillars and gives access to a ballroom, drawing room and library.
Now , he's entering a world he never imagined -- the colorful world of competitive ballroom dancing.
The cracovienne is a Polish dance for a large and brilliant company and just as Paderewski recalled in his minuet the stately assemblage of days long past, so in his cracovienne he gives us a brilliant picture of a ballroom scene in his native Poland when that country was still in its glory and not partitioned among three nations of Europe. The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players
After a short walk from the train station, the mayor greeted his entourage in the ballroom of the Mayflower Hotel, ‘where he sat enthroned in a bower of flowers and banners.’
But the apparent harmony was that of a ballroom Beirut.
Younger fans may know the Clo from the seventh season of Dancing With The Stars, where she stunk up the ballroom with her potty mouth and raunchy routines. Cloris Leachman PETA Ad (Photo)
He went tieless, unlike the great majority of men in the ballroom, in his effort to exchange his corporate image for that of a weekend suburban dad. GOP hopefuls focus on Obama in NH appearance
He will still continue to judge BBC1's ballroom dancing show. The Sun
Elegantly restored ballroom that plays house, garage and disco to a smartly dressed, trendy crowd-no jeans or trainers.
However, the change in tone of the Oscar ceremony disproportionately affects what the women will wear if ballroom gowns are disdained.
The ballroom retains original panelling and ceiling roses. Times, Sunday Times
The ballroom can accommodate 400 people.
Tuesday evening the fourth-floor "grand ballroom" fills with tweed and tie-dye, elbow patches and men's scarfery, lady berets and union patches and brambly ponytails. Election 2010: A walk on the mild side of victory (or defeat) parties
Outside the hotel where the auction took place Tuesday, several protesters scuffled with security guards when they tried to push into the ballroom to block the sales.
If sport ever collapsed, what would become of pro-celebrity ballroom? Times, Sunday Times
Much of the step material in the dances came from popular culture sources such as ballrooms and vaudeville stages.
One early distinction suggests itself: ballet is performed for an audience; ballroom dancing is where we can all join in.
He used to win lots of trophies for ballroom dancing, did the waltz, the tango. BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
The ballroom was filled with all the fashionable people of the ton, and it left one to wonder if anyone had not been invited.
They milled around the ballroom with video cameras.
She wore a strapless white gown with a large, ballroom skirt and embroidery embellished the bodice.
Some of the better dancers among the youngsters are experts not only in folk and traditional dances, but also in ballroom dances like foxtrot, quickstep, waltz and tango, to say nothing of Latin dances such as rumba, samba, jive and salsa.
It said the building is still in a good state of repair, and the famous ballroom and banqueting hall are still in a condition to use.
The ballroom retains original panelling and ceiling roses. Times, Sunday Times
the balcony overlooking the ballroom
It is not thought anyone was in the building, which was once a ballroom and Corn Exchange.
They were in great demand for hunt balls, ballroom dancing, weddings and other social gatherings.
But he shed a whopping three stone, making him almost unrecognisable, while learning to ballroom dance! The Sun
Sinise sits in the ballroom of a plush hotel, leafing through a script, a pot of lemon tea by his side.
The ballroom is the crowning glory of the palace.
There were no ballrooms here, no antechambers upon antechambers, no retinues of servants and footmen.
“The security situation in Iraq is truly a good one,” Keane asserted from the dais of the Willard Continental Hotel ballroom on June 11, a day after a car bomb ripped through a market, killing 30 people in Nasiriyah. Guarding the Surge Narrative While Iraq Burns « Antiwar.com Blog
Every kind of domestic suffering that is bred in poverty, illness, banishment, sorrow, and long travel in bad weather, was crammed into the little space; and yet was there infinitely less of complaint and querulousness, and infinitely more of mutual assistance and general kindness to be found in that unwholesome ark, than in many brilliant ballrooms. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
The corridor leading to the ballroom was paneled in the finest wood, highly polished and inlaid with marble. WEB OF DREAMS
Inside the hotel ballroom, he was at a rostrum giving a rousing speech to a packed house.
The Hilton's ballroom is a classic model of flexible facilities.
The center also offers tap and ballroom dance classes, yoga and Chairobics, which is a low-impact exercise program.
Cavernous, gilded, former ballroom of the Great Eastern hotel, adorned with nudes and chandeliers.
A juvenile troupe, 1917 Despite the fact that the Ballroom shows had comparatively short runs, every production was spectacular.
MacLean Center Ballroom, 112 S. Michigan Ave.; 312-629-6880, saic. edu Web Section
Yet the ballroom's lofty wood-panelled ceiling and tall seaward windows, along with an adjoining dining hall and arcaded veranda, do evoke another more gracious age.
Although I'm not personally a fan of how Americans teach and dance ballroom, they're doing a much better job of making dance a compulsory part of education than we are.
It was held in the ballroom of Government House, which is huge, though many people spilled outside into the garden - it was a warm evening. Journal for 28 October
It was like a ballroom, all ablaze with light and pearly white walls.
If you can waltz, do the tango or even the lambada why not join Ballroom, Latin and Sequence Dancing at Twirles Leisure Complex in Northfleet?
There were three competitions: professional ballroom, amateur latin and amateur ballroom.
His father develops depression and petit mal seizures, his mother takes up ballroom dancing; one vegetates on a locked ward while the other bespangles taffeta with sequins.
The main events take place in the cabaret lounge, where we enjoyed a procession of quality acts during our week-long stay, the ballrooms and the smaller side rooms.
I would twirl in the vast ballrooms in my ragged skirt, pretending I was the most radiant lady at the ball.
There was a bioscope, theatre, ballroom dancing, music shows, beauty contests and other activities. The Star (South Africa)
Why do it in a ballroom when you are clearly doing your partner a serious disservice? The Sun
Counts, knights, barons and marquesses gathered in the guilded ballroom of the hotel to mark the focal event of the aristocratic social calendar.
The ballroom is the crowning glory of the palace.
She is also a ballroom dancer, so we've made a special place in the garden where she can enjoy a dance. The Sun
‘We have beautiful ballroom space with 20-foot ceilings, architectural elements and terrazzo floors that can bleed into the mezzanine area,’ he said.
While Police Commissioner Ray Kelly mingled with a star-studded cast of entertainers and rich New Yorkers -- including Chevy Chase, Ron Perelman, Charlie Rose, Michael Douglas and Jimmy Buffet -- in the Waldorf's ballroom, a tough-guy security guard was harassing and threatening a young female reporter for the New York Times. Len Levitt: The Police Foundation: Making Enemies and Alienating Reporters
Rain beat against her window, and she could hear faint musical melodies drifting through the air to her from the ballroom.
How about dropping in at a dance hall ( ballroom )?
We used a stage in the grand ballroom to produce a play about Santa and his reindeer. Times, Sunday Times
Then he leaves the ballroom, grabs his raincoat from the checkroom, and heads home.
As I guessed, a red ballroom gown is soon pulled on me, the corset below making it almost impossible for me to breathe.
In this way, we teenagers picked up ballroom, jazz, jive and the frowned upon jitter bugging.
But rising above his cast of villains and eccentrics, including a countess who had earthed over her ballroom and grew vegetables there, was a tender portrait of the old lawyer, Lattarullo. Rereading: Naples '44 by Norman Lewis
An afterparty was held in the ballroom at the Jane Hotel. Emily Singer: Style.com Fetes Natalie Joos And The New 'Tales Of Endearment'
In "Burn the Floor" ballroom is a staggeringly aggressive form.
It was glamorous as always with an ungodly amount of social elites crowding the ballrooms and game rooms.
The waitstaff all across the ballroom has begun to shuttle the hundreds of dinners to the gala patrons.
As I stood in the middle of the ballroom, smoothing out a crease on a white linen napkin and inhaling the sweet scent of lilies, the worst news I could possibly imagine was being delivered by a baby-faced representative from the D.C. Opera Company. Skipping a Beat
Three hundred dancers tangoed, waltzed and foxtrotted the night away Saturday during the Austin Ballroom Festival.
For those of you who may wonder why we are having our parties at the same place that is one of the reasons, ballrooms in other moderately priced hotels are not as big.
You can imagine yourself in a stifling ballroom in Calcutta, full of feverish gaiety, while punkahs languidly stir the air.
I remember how upset she looked leaving the ballroom.
My father taught ballroom in all the schools on the North Shore of Lake Michigan in the Chicago area.
It took him and other members of the band just a month to convert the broken-down, dirty, desolate looking room over a tailor's shop in Deansgate into a smart, colourful, ballroom.
The hotel has top notch conference facilities, with four ballrooms, seven function room options and three atrium room set ups.
If hypocrisy was a ballroom dance, she'd be top of the leaderboard. The Sun
Having finished her morning tea she went to the ballroom, which she particularly liked for its loud resonance, and began singing her solfeggio. War and Peace
As they neared the entrance to the ballroom she paused with a new kind of impish smile. Robin
People are sleeping everywhere - in outlying permanent buildings, in the palace itself (with no a/c), in tents, in ballrooms and hallways.
The waltz, foxtrot, tango and quickstep are danced in rapid-fire succession in each ballroom round while salsa steps up the beat to let Latin competitors loosen up a little and go through the paces of the rhumba, samba and cha cha.
He used to win lots of trophies for ballroom dancing, did the waltz, the tango. BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
The ballroom, strung up with lights and snowflakes and leaves, looked like a fairyland, but the rest of it was slightly nauseating, the loud, bad music, the couples making out on the dance floor, the bad food.
I have ballroom tonight, so after the de-bladdering it is. We Really Do Love Katamari
Kail spun around and stalked toward the doors of the ballroom, angry and hurting.
In fact, competitive ballroom is now called Dance Sport.
Astaire was famous for incorporating a strangely elegant mix of tap and ballroom.
In 2008, she funded and held her own film festival, the Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams, in Nairn, her small Scottish home town. Tilda Swinton: We need to talk about eccentricity | Observer profile
she made a graceful entree into the ballroom
An empty bird house, like a faded ballroom, can be ornate - and an invitation to melancholic reflection.
Taken from four decades of popular dance, "Neighborhood Ballroom" is a major production piece, ranging from Belle Époque serenity to a wild Latin American mambo show, all viewed through the lens of a night club denizen known as the Poet. Marconews.com Stories
Again we become aware of how gracefully the sun and earth waltz with each other through the ballroom of space-time, eliciting awes and hallelujahs. Wes Nisker: Worship The Sun! (Not Just The Son)
Ballroom is back - but it never really went away.
In town, with the noise of the streets, the buzz of the theatres and the lights of the ballroom, they were living lives where the heart expands, the senses bourgeon out. Madame Bovary
In the hushes of the Bowery Ballroom, expect to capture every nuance. A Little Older, but No Less Noisy
I scanned the room and found him speaking with a young woman in a dim corner of the ballroom.
He is tough but not grim, with a lithe, loose-limbed walk that makes the ballet-instructor story seem plausible at least until we observe his rhythm-deficient ballroom dancing.
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On the evening of 6 April 1985, Ms Drew took a night off from nursing her sick mother, to go ballroom dancing.
The Locarno, which was once a ballroom and Corn Exchange, is owned by businessman Gael Mackenzie, the proprietor of the growing chain of bars which bear his name.
It turns out that the emphasis in ballroom is in posture, rhythm and grace, and the steps weren't any more advanced than we've been learning.
A ballroom dancer was doing the foxtrot only days after major groundbreaking surgery to implant an artificial collar bone into his shoulder this month.
The Ballroom went instantly silent as everyone stared at my father's prostrate figure.
In a night of unprecedented nostalgia the rockers, the jivers and the waltzers descended on the ‘ballroom of romance’.
after the dance the littered and lifeless ballroom echoed hollowly
Under the baleful eye of the concierge, I head for the stairs down to the ballroom. Times, Sunday Times
Like the sparkle of the red wine to the inebriate are the seductive influences of the ballroom. Choice Readings for the Home Circle
Katherine led the way out of the ballroom and into the drawing room across the parlour.
One dancer who combines both kinds of performance is Shaun Parry, who teaches ballroom and swing at the Fred Astaire studios.
Waltz, foxtrot, and quickstep were the popular ballroom dances.
A pair of figures knelt behind the parapet of the balcony overlooking the ballroom.
It is, quite simply, two people in ballroom position taking One Step per beat of the music.
The ballroom was turned into a kitchen, with a robust oak parquet that will only improve with the hammering it receives from energetic youngsters. Times, Sunday Times
Some of the better dancers among the youngsters are experts not only in folk and traditional dances, but also in ballroom dances like foxtrot, quickstep, waltz and tango, to say nothing of Latin dances such as rumba, samba, jive and salsa.

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