[
UK
/pɹˈɑːns/
]
[ US /ˈpɹæns/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹæns/ ]
VERB
-
spring forward on the hind legs
The young horse was prancing in the meadow -
to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
He struts around like a rooster in a hen house - cause (a horse) to bound spring forward
- ride a horse such that it springs and bounds forward
NOUN
- a proud stiff pompous gait
How To Use prance In A Sentence
- Do you think you can just prance around like that without me knowing where you're going?
- The frieze, where of old would prance an exuberant processional of gods, is, in this case, bare of decoration, but upon the epistyle is written in simple, stern letters the word "EUSTON. Men, Women, and Boats
- A teacher pranced before the class in a red cloak, but it was her big-mouthed gator pursuer that … Literacy News – 76th Edition « News « Literacy News
- I stomped around and laughed while she wiggled, pranced and sang along to the music like all the other teenagers.
- Kaylana's stag pranced with anxiety, and she had to lean along its neck in an attempt to calm it. Villains by Necessity
- The second that we were on my father's land Sora gave a whinny of joy as she pranced this way and that.
- They had long been sailing west upon their expeditious and stead ship, the sun had now sat upon her throne, and her red and gold stallions that drew her chariot pranced among the hoary clouds.
- Show your manners!" called Emil; and the boys pranced up to the ladies, old and young; with polite invitations to "tread the mazy," as dear Dick Little Men
- But she was criticized as a showboat for her victory prance around the field with an enormous fake gold medal dangling from her neck and a cell phone pressed to her ear. The Bad Girl of Women’s Soccer
- The horses pranced and reared in anxious impatience.