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Example sentences for "dance"

Lexicographically close words:
damsels; damson; damsons; dan; danari; danced; dancer; dancers; dances; danceth
  1. The Figures, with a gracious air, dance pompously, but very passably.

  2. A dance of youths and maidens is in progress.

  3. Two of our greatest sculptors are bringing us their latest masterpieces; and we are going to crown them with flowers and sing dithyrambs to them and dance round them.

  4. Really, you must have a very empty head if there is nothing in it but a dance with one girl who is no better than any of the other girls.

  5. The playing of dance music brought a visit from the police.

  6. And with all friends of Hungary I hope that that country will soon throw off the trance of Prussianism, which has led the Dual Monarchy into a Dance of Death.

  7. The seventy or eighty snakes used in this dance are treated from first to last with the utmost kindness and respect, especially the rattlesnakes, a dozen of which will frequently be squirming on the ground at once.

  8. When the open air ceremony of the Snake Dance begins, the members of these brotherhoods appear scantily clothed, with their faces painted red and white, and with tortoise-shell rattles tied to their legs.

  9. Anyhow, stay and dance with me while we talk about it.

  10. Hastily, noisily, the chairs were removed from the dance floor, then the orchestra began a spirited two-step and a raucous-voiced caller broke into loud exhortations.

  11. Well, there's another dance this week and I'll expect you.

  12. He gnawed 'em naked, then done a war-dance with their feathers in his hat.

  13. He nodded at Pierce's casual reference to the coming dance at Headquarters.

  14. And as they glided to and fro, the wild roses and ivy and long tendrils of the vine, flaunting it on the crumbling walls, seemed to wave in unison and dance round the dancing girls.

  15. Even women flattered and fawned upon her, delighted to be acknowledged as her acquaintance, proud to be invited to her parties or to dance attendance upon her in public assemblies.

  16. I ought to have you now," he said, "though nobody knows what a rogue you are; and a pretty dance you have led me!

  17. As I scraped away the surface I saw something which would have made me dance for joy had I not been weighed down by the long boots.

  18. Dancing maidens in white robes, each with a dove resting on her hand, enter right front, reach the centre of the stage, and begin the dance of doves.

  19. As the maidens describe circles in the dance the doves rise and fly in similar circles above their heads, and re-alight on their extended hands) Sem.

  20. I can dance with you--and I can kill you!

  21. These kings I've called here to a dance must lead A funeral.

  22. My friends, if you will excuse me, there are several dozens of ladies in the ball room waiting for a dance with the costume par excellence of the evening.

  23. When Jericourt had left the room, the young woman sprang to her feet and began to dance a sort of cachucha in front of the mirror, singing: "Il est parti Ce cher ami!

  24. But he had no choice save to emerge from his trance and to reply, when he suddenly felt a pair of wiry arms thrown about him, and someone began to dance up and down in front of him and embrace him, exclaiming the while: "Ah!

  25. Let kings but lead the dance and begin to leave off this expense, and in a month the business will be done throughout the kingdom, without edict or ordinance; we shall all follow.

  26. Tis not his profession to know either how to hunt or to dance well; "Orabunt causas alii, coelique meatus Describent radio, et fulgentia sidera dicent; Hic regere imperio populos sciat.

  27. When he saw me, he gave a viking whoop that brought Mrs. Ainslie from her chair upon the veranda, while he executed a solemn war-dance around me.

  28. HEROD Say, Gabalos, dost thou think that our Legate from Syria, before whom all the gaiety and colour of life doth shimmer, hath ever seen a young daughter of Princes dance at table?

  29. Yesterday we were allowed to wander as we listed through all the passages, to dance unveiled in the gardens, and peep through the railings and mock the passers-by.

  30. And is he on view, this man for whose head daughters of princes dance before thee?

  31. Dance thy dance modestly, and when thou hast finished, wipe signs of shame from thy face; hearken narrowly to what the Tetrarch saith to thee.

  32. Her dance becomes wilder and more abandoned; she gradually loosens her veil, then covers herself with it again in voluptuous playfulness, till at last, quite unveiled, she stands with the upper part of her body apparently unclothed.

  33. One summer evening, recently, the daughter was called up on the 'phone by one of her girl friends and asked to make one of the party, who were arranging an impromptu dance at a private house.

  34. After they got to the house where the dance was to be and the others had all gathered there, it was decided for some reason to adjourn to another house.

  35. After the dancing had been going on a short while, she found she was not in the humor for it; the men who asked her to dance didn't interest her, and she felt like going to bed.

  36. They were talking over their plans, which contemplated a visit to the movies with two young men--a supper and dance afterwards.

  37. King began to watch the dance again, for it did not feel safe to look too long into the Rangar's eyes.

  38. Rewa Gunga clapped his hands and the dance ceased.

  39. But no two figures of the dance were alike on either.

  40. He offered me money to go to Germany and dance for the kaiser in Berlin.

  41. So I began to learn to dance as she danced, using those pictures of her as a model.

  42. If she were here, to dance with her snakes for you, you would have been jolly well dancing with her, if she had wished it!

  43. Perhaps you shall see her dance some day!

  44. She is a woman of resource and unexpectedness-- Let her women dance for you a while.

  45. Ismail, hugging himself by the elbows and beginning to dance from side to side.

  46. King, in a calm aside to Rewa Gunga, turning half toward him and taking his eyes off the dance without any, very, great effort.

  47. Actors and actresses turn out and dance and strut before the curtain.

  48. There is no prophet but the melancholy Jacques, and the blue devils dance on all our literary wires.

  49. And there to music low and sweet Sevillian maids, from eve till dawn, Dance lightly on the moonlit lawn In satin shoes, on dainty feet.

  50. They play cards in the evening, dance with the same partners for twelve years running, in the same rooms, at the same dates.

  51. They dance superbly, and are at home in drawing-rooms, and know all about sporting matters and theatrical affairs!

  52. Half a minute afterward the crowd was making a wavering dance about the two men.

  53. They're going to dance the Swiss dance," said Aggie, "and the M.

  54. They were executing a dance from the latest burlesque.

  55. The dance is over, but she can't keep her feet still.

  56. Others have their sides pierced, and cords are introduced between the skin and ribs, and drawn backwards and forwards, while these victims of superstition dance through the streets.

  57. I am sure the gentlemen admire a lady who can sing well, and play well, and dance well, and move with grace as she enters or leaves a room.

  58. Fragrant the vines that mantle those hills, Proudly the fig rejoices; Merrily dance the virgin rills, Blending their myriad voices.

  59. The crabbit carles forget to snarl, The canker'd cuiffs forget to quarrel, And gilphies forget the stock and horle, And dance to Patie Birnie.

  60. I lived in thy bosom Thy heart lay so still the last night o' the week; Then nane was sae weary that love would nae rouse him, And grief gaed to dance with a laugh on his cheek.

  61. If e'er they meet their worthy king, Let them dance roun' him in a ring, An' some Scots piper play the spring He blew them at Vittoria.

  62. And because I am happy and dance and sing, They think they have done me no injury, And are gone to praise God and his priest and king, Who make up a heaven of our misery.

  63. For I dance And drink, and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.

  64. I thought if I brought him in as a ghost, I'd give him a bit of a treat, and let him dance upon the "tight rope.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dance hall; dance looby; dance with