pirouette

How To Use pirouette In A Sentence

• She wound up her dance routine with a wobbly pirouette and took a little bow.
• With a nod, Annie pirouetted around in a rustle of taffeta and left the room. Etched in Bone
• After each catty little spat, we cut to another uneventful rehearsal scene where boys and girls with asexual physiques pirouette weightlessly about the rehearsal room.
• Matron allowed me to come too, for a while, to watch, pirouette around and drink a thimbleful of ginger wine.
• She said this romantically as she did a little pirouette.
• She smiled at me and performed a pirouette, her skirt rising up to reveal a flash of white knickers.
• I envy her recklessness, the roughness of her unpracticed pirouettes, the occasional clumsy misstep that inspires no apologies.
• Transition steps, like a glissade or pas de bourrée, are often as important as pirouettes.
• Yet more of them leap up ever higher, their legs scissoring the air as they hover like so many hummingbirds in baggy T-shirts and tights, and a dozen or so pirouette dizzyingly, like human spinning tops.
• Steps start off classical – pirouettes from fourth position – then acquire jazzy helicopter arms, or evaporate into a noodling evanescence. Birmingham Royal Ballet: Pointes of View