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.
The five of us watched them prance around to rather lame and aging dance material before we all wandered off in search of something more stimulating.
Because today I would have my fun watching that man prance around in my scarf.
In an echo of the wild rumpus scenes from "Where the Wild Things Are," we soon embark on six densely illustrated but wordless pages of roistering, in which Bumble-Ardy and his friends feed one another cake, rattle tambourines and prance about with birthday banners. Sendak's Party Animals
Other memorable movie roles included Santa Claus in the 1989 movie "Prancer" and as the gypsy father, Tadzu Lempke, who utters the title curse in the 1996 movie "Stephen King's Thinner. Berks county news
The black horse rivaled the mare; he was of the same great size with a long black mane and a lively prance even as he stood tethered.
He prances through the casinos with scantily clad showgirls draped on each arm (although he is happily married).
He picked up his heavy racked head and pranced out of the thicket. New Weekly Contest: Best Hunting Story Wins a Leatherman
Rich are their scarfs, their chargers featly prance: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
English ideas the _pollo_ is more objectionable there than elsewhere, since his idea of riding is to show off the antics of a horse specially taught and made to prance about and curvet while he sits it, his legs sticking out in the position of the Colossus of Rhodes, his heels, armed with spurs, threatening catastrophe to the other riders. Spanish Life in Town and Country
How thou wad prance, an 'snore, an' skriegh [snort, neigh] Robert Burns How To Know Him
the horse pranced around skittishly
The sun had become a burning circle amidst a sea of turquoise, and heat hazes pranced along the horizon, carnivals of air that taunted with hints and effigies of water. Watchman: Babel Series Part One | SciFi UK Review
It was on the day before the game when she was sitting in the bleachers, just waiting for the practice to end, that she saw a blonde cheerleader prance over to River and kiss him.
*caper caper, prance prance* Pinkee Pinkee Toe Pads, FTW! Ok u caught me - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Had I but known, I could have made twenty shifts; nay, for that matter, and in so good a cause, I would have thought little to have prigged a prancer from the next common — it had but been sending back the brute to the headborough. Kenilworth
Behind her, a horse - his horse - pranced about nervously, whinnying.
It's full of Medieval and Tudor England-type tunes you can prance about singing "Hey nonny nonny" to without fear of much humiliation. Chris Payne - Early English Music (CHAP 123)
The Robin Hood legend has been a staple of Hollywood cinema since Douglas Fairbanks slapped on a pair of tights and pranced around a backlot Sherwood Forest in 1922. Movie Review: Robin Hood » Scene-Stealers
The horses pranced in the circus ring.
Everyone should don their sicko fantasy gear and prance around like morons while the watchers in the hunting blinds area snap pictures and take pot shots with explosive ammunition.
Do you think you can chisel me out of a fortune and then prance over here and try me on like a secondhand suit?
The little shy sounds of Schumann are constantly forgetting that they are shy or child-like and strutting out boastfully in an ineffective dash or prance.
Off the bedevilled wretches pranced, and they kicked, they snorted, whinnied, rolled, galloped, outflying the wind, but not the dismal rider. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
He pulled out all the stops for the post-Super Bowl return of "Glee" from its two-month hiatus, including an opening number in which guys did tricks on bikes while the blue-wigged Cheerios pranced around in cone bikini tops tricked out with sparklers. 'Glee' post-Super Bowl episode: We watch so you don't have to
I imagined she must have practiced hours at a time perfecting her petite prance in those lofty heels.
As the cat in the title, he magically prances through the land of imagination.
Sergo, search me, the incapable reparteed with a selfevitant subtlety so obviously spurious and, raising his hair, after the grace, with the christmas under his clutcharm, for Portsymasser and Purtsymessus and Pertsymiss and Partsymasters, like a prance of findingos, with a shillto shallto slipny stripny, in he skittled. Finnegans Wake
She gave me a look of mock rage and slapped her mare into a prance, leading a little ways ahead of me.
It's a great soundtrack if you want to evoke the court of the Sun King in your very own home, or to prance around royally in your best bathrobe.
I sat on my stained carpeted floor and watched the kitty prance around my room on an adventure, as I had for the past four days.
The one complaint possible against Isadora Duncan is that she has rendered us immoderately dissatisfied with what had once moderately contented us; and the fear is that we shall promptly have a host of half-baked imitators, who will copy the mere accidentals of her system without understanding the essentials, and will fancy that the whole matter is one of clothes and music, and prance about bare-legged, meaninglessly. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"
He majorette-pranced onto fields while windmilling his arms to pump up the crowd.
Year after year, dragon dancers in colorful costumes wildly prance around different locales, mostly shopping centers, to the loud beats of the drums.
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
He pulled out all the stops for the post-Super Bowl return of "Glee" from its two-month hiatus, including an opening number in which guys did tricks on bikes while the blue-wigged Cheerios pranced around in cone bikini tops tricked out with sparklers. 'Glee' post-Super Bowl episode: We watch so you don't have to
I was the first person in the car line, and I waved to Ellie when she pranced down the stairs. The Bird House
So, the herald was a decided failure, and the crowd hooted with great energy, as he pranced ingloriously away. Sketches by Boz
With a small whinny, he pranced over to, nuzzling my hand in search of an apple.
‘Soccer’ is a sport where grown men cavort and prance.
Darwin writes: -- "On the mountains of Tierra del Fuego I have more than once seen a huanaco, on being approached, not only neigh and squeal, but prance and leap about in a most ridiculous manner, apparently in defiance as a challenge. The Naturalist in La Plata
He took them out of tl Cafes, and told us, that in his own country prance was to (liave his beard with one thefe, and to cut his meat with the otl There were two pockets, which we could enter: thcfe he called his fobs; they v two large flits cut into the top of his mic cover, but fqueczcd clofe by the prefl! ure of belly. The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin
The horses snorted and pranced in place, apparently sensing the oncoming danger.
Brynn swung himself onto his mount, a glossy, chocolate-coloured stallion, that pranced excitedly for a moment before he brought it under control.
At the head of it rode Fanfaronade himself upon a white horse, which pranced and caracoled to the sound of the trumpets. The Red Fairy Book
Oddly, he cannot run in human form, instead he walks with a strange, goofy prance of sorts, head and body tilted back, and led by his tiny feet.
The young man struts, prances, like a kind of teenage prankster, with stink bombs and remote control detonators.
I'm starting to see the whole experience as a bizarre holiday, behaving like an uninvited guest who dresses up and prances around the football pitch every evening.
She prances in my direction, and gives Chris an engaging, enchanting smile - but he looks right through it.
The next instant, before she could prance away again, the _other_ end of that slim, black tip swung out of the branch and whipped itself round and round her body, and a black head, with sharp fangs in it, hit her _biff, biff, biff_! on the nose. Children of the Wild
He almost pranced along the passage with his pet and I hoped fervently that I would not see them in there again.
*caper caper prance prance* I duz teh pinkee toepads dantz! 1 in 6 wins fantastic prize… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
A beautiful silver horse had pranced out of the sky and lifted her up with it, carrying her away from any problems or dangers.
Every bump my horse pranced over made my stomach clench dangerously.
Theogine's horse in Heliodorus [4846] curvet, prance, and go so proudly, exultans alacriter et superbiens, &c., but that such as mine author supposeth, he was in love with his master? dixisses ipsum equum pulchrum intelligere pulchram domini fomam? Anatomy of Melancholy
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
Federal government, in what can only be called conspiratorial collusion with big-business interests, has let in tens of millions of immigrants during that time (millions per year from all over the world), not to mention virtually let tens of millions of other illegal immigrants from south of our border just prance on in here like they own this country. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
Now, the jinrikisha is exactly the vehicle in which one would expect to ride in this land of fairy children – large perambulators that hold one person comfortably; but instead of being trundled from behind by a white-capped nursemaid, one of the Henry II. gentlemen, who wears also straw sandals and an enormous blue mushroom hat on his head, ensconces himself between the little shafts in front and prances noiselessly away with it. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
During waking hours she bejewels herself with the shiny plastic silver purse, bangle bracelets, clip-on earrings and necklace she received over the holidays and prances around in the accompanying "glass slippers" which look suspiciously like plastic stripper shoes while yelling, "Wait, don't go! Meredith C. Carroll: Bidding A Sad Adieu To A Big Purple Friend
A meal that is prepared with the proper respect for ingredients but that entails far less work than a "prance" is called "a nice little supper. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2
For the whole day, I ate small bits of food, skipped, tripped, danced and pranced to my next destination, Penepia.
Watching him prance around the stage in that goofy knee-raising hop is quite a sight.
We used to prance around our bedroom pretending to be pop stars.
I pranced in without knocking to find Mother, dressed in her scarlet finery, standing on the platform the seamstresses used to pin dresses.
Maids with flowers pranced down the aisle and their perfume wafted through the air.
Upon our approach, the roan whinnied and pranced a few steps, skittish.
He came two steps into the room in a kind of prance, as if his body wanted to take off and he couldn’t quite fight it down. Dexter in the Dark
On the lawn of the facility, children wearing stilts with butterfly masks and wings made of coloured crepe paper, pranced in the mid-afternoon sun.
Families and organizations sponsored the carving of each of the 38 ponies that prance around the carousel, which opened in 1995.
In they prance, and Titi fingered the Urber and blubbed like two morts, and the hoppies grabbled him and what's your name, you're for iron. Exodus From The Long Sun
As they neared the corral, both their horses pranced and whinnied. DANSVILLE
Tall of body, long of leg, blonde of hair, heavy of spangles, she stepped right out with a megawatt grin and a snappy prance.
Irene stands up and prances around the campfire.
In other words, we the taxpayer paid each teacher $200 or so to prance around demanding more of our tax money. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Raise our Taxes!
He stamped his feet, pranced, nickered a not bad imitation of Mountain Lad, tossed an imaginary mane, and cried: CHAPTER X
He snapped his fingers as the dog pranced by; it glanced at him, sniffed at a bush. Yalta Pas de Deux
Horses 'prance' only in children's story books and yet here she was prancing and goose-stepping as she was cheered all the way from her backstretch stable to the paddock. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Writers are a contentious, socially isolated lot, but is this online medium forcing us to prance delicately around the china shop, advertising our wares in the most bland fashion possible? Enframing or, What’s My Motivation?
Long-Legs and Bonjour pranced in the forest, barking and chasing each other the ways dogs do, yapping and playful-like.
: Tantris pranced and arched his neck, and one of his sapphirine eyes flashed a teasing look up at his Chosen. Arrow's Fall
I'm starting to see the whole experience as a bizarre holiday, behaving like an uninvited guest who dresses up and prances around the football pitch every evening.
He slowed his horse to what was intended to be a walk, but really resembled an elevated prance as he strained forward, trying to run.
The guy in the rat mask, who is apparently also a milk man, prances around on stage for several seconds before the house wife takes an interest in his antics and approaches.
Letter: The girls turned and pranced off towards the apartments. John Shore: Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire
Tall of body, long of leg, blonde of hair, heavy of spangles, she stepped right out with a megawatt grin and a snappy prance.
For the finale, fishy similarities of Christina Aguilera and Missy Elliott strut and prance, while the real-life divas sing through the closing credits.
I think I'll just prance outside looking like the Bride of Frankenstein's ugly stepsister and scare everyone into unconsciousness.
She gave a little nicker and pranced playfully back and forth in front of us.
Peering through the windows at the spectacles hosted by white planters, enslaved blacks would then prance and preen in imitation of whites at their own dances, using exaggerated movements, curtsys and bows to and adopting “high-toned” clothing to mock. The Cakewalk | Edwardian Promenade
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. The Scotch Express
She half expected a deer to prance by a rainbow while some overly cheesy theme song music started playing.
Penny whinnied again, pranced in place and stared at the wall of undergrowth. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
I'll open this when I'm inside - I'm not sure you want to be there when I shriek with joy and prance all over the house with them on.
Is it that we like to dress up and put on makeup and dance and prance around?
Ceci permet d'assurer une solidit et une esprance de vie beaucoup plus longue des supports (qui constituent en fin de compte une des parties les plus onreuses de toute unit de production de tuiles fibro-mortier). Chapter 12
She prances off backstage and I have to physically hold myself back from a scowl.
Others waddled, Dominic Cork bustled, Richard Ellison scampered, Derek Pringle pranced doing a kind of human dressage, and the more rotund were as chest-on as an old maid breasting the billows off Cromer beach in early spring. Praveen Kumar's rare style of swing bowling is as bold as it is old | Rob Bagchi
I don't just prance up to her and hand it over, do I?
He almost pranced along the passage with his pet and I hoped fervently that I would not see them in there again.
The cast prances, postures, and palpitates appositely, fully aware that real acting would be de trop.
They prance and strut in front of the mirrors, as if their fairy godmother has waved her wand and said: ‘You shall go to the ball!’
All those hours of driving them to to rehearsals and waiting for them to finish seemed worth it as kids lined up on stage and pranced about in attractive costumes, livening up the show.
The crowd, while clapping their hands, also tapped their foot to the music, as the models pranced around showing off the jewellery.
We find: (1) The elongated or stretched-leg "prance More Science From an Easy Chair
She watched the deer prance between trees and the small fox run across the path.
This woman's step is light; she positively prances.
He danced, pranced, shimmied and shook; his energy was electric.
He pranced out and the first thing I noticed were the tiger stripes painted on his finger nails.
Girls in tight, tiny clothing prance along in groups, following good-looking boys with baggy pants and colorful shirts.
Ousel turned the helm to the right, and Misery jigged in dispute, much like a strong-willed colt will prance upon the pressure of a bit.
More often Arthur tells jokes - set pieces that, though funny, are either old hat or burdened with so much excogitated emphasis as to, rather than prance like Lippizaners, plod like Percherons.
Most importantly, you get to prance about in costume and consume prodigious amounts of liquor whilst meeting new people.
There was no way, however, that I could just prance up to his chambers and demand that he explain himself.
The horses pranced and reared in anxious impatience.
There had been that moment of shock when Mally threw her up onto the creature's back, the look on Tony and Tom's faces as the stag pranced in front of them, and then it was off and running and the shoclc gave way to wonder. Greenmantle
He had a prance in his step, which carried him to the table of the handsome woman.
After the last stallion pranced out of the arena, they brought out pens and slatted gates for the sheepdog trial.
After a moment, the little egret pranced out from behind its twiggy curtain. Country diary: Sandy, Bedfordshire
It's been like a miracle - he runs, prances, rolls on his back, just like he used to.
Then she would have leaned over and stroked the mare's neck whispering sweet nothings in her ear as the animal pranced.
Kero got up, tongue hanging from the side of his mouth as he pranced over to her, his small tail wagging back and forth rapidly.
Her horse raises its legs up high and prances with pride past them.
Spring has sprung, and as the first flurries of fleecy lambs pranced giddily about the fields, we two-legged beasts took heart at the warmest March in 40 years by whipping off the layers.
In a kind of mouthwatering tango, he pranced past the boisterous tables of customers, holding a raw slab of beef on butcher's paper like a tray of drinks. Chicagotribune.com -
After my lovely prance, I settled under some trees, rolling my towel out and pulling my sunglasses over my eyes.
Peering through the windows at the spectacles hosted by white planters, enslaved blacks would then prance and preen in imitation of whites at their own dances, using exaggerated movements, curtsys and bows to and adopting “high-toned” clothing to [...] 2009 February | Edwardian Promenade
The girls came out of the cottage doors to look at him, as he made the fiery little beast curvet and prance along the road; and he was evidently not insensible to the looks of admiration of these young ladies, as they muffled up their faces in their blue rebozos and looked at him through the narrow opening. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
Behind her, the horses pranced, and Smith flinched.
In a moment, the bushes parted and into the pasture pranced an unbelievable creature, all woolly and goatlike from its waist down to its hooves; human and masculine above. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
The bulk of the episode is all about Ivankov and it's incredibly dragged out as he prances around in his fishnets and make-up saying 'heehaw' over and over. Mania News Feed
Then we watch him prance (yes, it is a prance, there is no other way to describe it) around the room and yell ‘WHOOO WHOOOOOO’ at the relevant sections.
He wears iridescent formal clothes, prances around with a tapering rod that ignites anything it touches, and trails a gust of hot air.
Even Rotary flourishes primarily as a Cause, as another opportunity for the Southerner to puff and prance and be a noble hotspur.
Yuki pranced up the path to the new Meshan's domain with Philonius tailing along behind her.
He's the fit-looking man whose dancing frames glint in the sunlight as he spins, moonwalks and prances to a boom box, never stumbling or missing the beat.
The incoming tide added to the flow and counterflow, setting off crests of white horses that pranced in irregular silver ranks across the wide waters. A Small Death in the Great Glen
We prance around the football field in short skirts and belly bearing tops and recite short rhymes.
We used to prance around our bedroom pretending to be pop stars.
While many horses pranced or leapt from the trailer, he walked slowly down the ramp like a seasoned pro.
A "prance" is a meal on which the hostess has labored for at least a week. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2
The filly pranced into the winner's circle in high spirits.
He then side-steps to his right and then prances off to his left with his baton still raised.
The frost is thick on the ground, Rudolf and Prancer are straining at the leash and the halls are decked with boughs of holly.
Smiling, I prance about the room, tiptoeing in and out of the sun dapples on the oak floor, and he giggles gleefully.
I recognise that sometimes children can come along before the marriage but to prance about in a white dress playing the virgin bride is a bit much.

How To Use Prance In A Sentence

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