How to Use pirouette in a Sentence

pirouette

noun
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  • Venus did her trademark pirouette and waved to the crowd.
    — Helene Elliott, latimes.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • For the big guy, did a full 360, did a pirouette on the way in, lookin’ like Baryshnikov heading to the goal-line.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The results — both the pirouettes and the tutus — will be stunning.
    — Maura Brannigan, Marie Claire, 13 Sep. 2013
  • And the sculpture itself stood up, performed a pirouette, and fell to the floor, dead again.
    — Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Beth watches from the wings of the stage as Stacey performs … and falls during a pirouette.
    — Amanda Ostuni, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2022
  • But McCusker fell on a pirouette on the low bar, putting her Olympic hopes in jeopardy.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 28 June 2021
  • One day, my 70-pound male bulldog did a pirouette into the bay.
    — Sarah Cook, al, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The years of arabesques, pirouettes, and high-impact landings began to take their toll.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2019
  • Watching all the pirouettes and arabesques will surely work up your appetite.
    — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 15 Dec. 2019
  • Curry kept his hand in the air a little longer, did a pirouette and smiled, his 28 points one better than Conley.
    — Broderick Turner Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2021
  • The jets sway and pirouette to music on a stage of interlaced basins, canals and circular pools.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 29 May 2017
  • In the video, Crystal’s timing is perfect, a pirouette, a riot.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 27 Apr. 2022
  • With fewer frames to absorb, your eyes are able to follow every blow and pirouette.
    — Patricia Hernandez, The Verge, 7 Sep. 2018
  • The two pirouette around each other every 93 minutes in a deadly, close dance.
    — Sarah Scoles, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2015
  • This is helpful for a dancer doing pirouettes or a gym-goer warming up with side planks.
    — Jennifer Nied, Women's Health, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Some will label a pirouette a Zidane turn; others might attribute it to Diego Maradona.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Espinoza took a pass from Nick Lima at the top of the area, did a pirouette to evade two defenders and slipped a side-netter inside the far post to open the scoring in the 50th minute.
    — Staff and News Services, SFChronicle.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Our friends on the left pirouette from position to position, desperate to please the mob.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 2 Sep. 2020
  • JHud enforces the law with two sets of nunchucks, Miley uses a series of pirouette moves to take down a gang and Blake and Adam deliver some hits.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 29 Aug. 2017
  • Recalling her days as a dancer, a young woman, bone thin, took off a boot and performed an en demi-pointe pirouette.
    — David Guttenfelder, National Geographic, 17 Dec. 2019
  • The most recognizable, these days, is the iPad pirouette, evoking an upturned palm.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Jenner took the challenge to new heights and performed a pirouette pose on a moving jet ski, gracefully unscrewing the cap with the top of her foot.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 9 July 2019
  • Even granting that Villalobos is a part written as all pirouette, Debrez throws in plié and jeté, too.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The results can energize dancers, who get to perform their pirouettes and grand pliés with a new perspective.
    — Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2023
  • In the ballet’s finale, the audience will witness grande jetés, or leaps with splits in the air, and more than two dozen fouetté turns, a kind of pirouette on one leg.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2022
  • Moments after the play, GIFs of the pirouette began flooding Twitter.
    — Dave Southorn and Chadd Cripe, idahostatesman, 16 Dec. 2017
  • Her pirouettes were followed by the sultry saunter of Maleficent, replete with sparkling horns in green and purple.
    — The Masked Observer, AL.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The Broncos ended their first touchdown drive with a diamond pirouette play lined up wide right.
    — Dave Southorn and Chadd Cripe, idahostatesman, 16 Dec. 2017
  • That led to Kershaw executing a pirouette, spinning in the air when a call did not go his way during a walk of Wil Myers.
    — Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 6 May 2017
  • In the coming days, researchers will issue a command to make the spacecraft pirouette in place with its robotic arm extended.
    — National Geographic, 20 Oct. 2020

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