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Example sentences for "dances"

Lexicographically close words:
danari; dance; danced; dancer; dancers; danceth; dancin; dancing; danda; dandelion
  1. Also they will perform dances and chants, some well, some ill.

  2. The Frenchman had given these small-clothes to an Indian powwow, who parted with them to the old witch for a gill of strong waters, at one of their dances in the forest.

  3. Their approach was heralded by the songs and shrieks and dances of the warriors.

  4. She dances with eloquence, speaks as well as she dances, and sings equally well.

  5. My sole instants of joy were provided by the dances of Concha.

  6. During a month she tolerated me in what may be called the dressing-room, at the rear of the stage where the dances took place.

  7. Peter Cruzat played on the Violin and the men danced Several dances & retired to rest in the houses of the 1st and Second Cheif.

  8. Loud whoops of triumph and sundry breakdown dances were heard in the top story soon after five o'clock, for the juvenile Wendovers were early risers, and when in high spirits made themselves distinctly audible.

  9. We shall have nothing but round dances in the programme.

  10. And as by that time the drinking bout had begun, after the healths were finished the guests were amused by the strains of the choraulæ and the dances of Andalusian girls.

  11. Then an elephant performed some clumsy dances under the bidding of its black keeper.

  12. The village, composed of some twenty huts, stands in a clearing surrounded by dense bush, and in the foreground stands the Niu, the sacred pole round which the fanatics perform their mad dances and mystic incantations.

  13. The merchant dances because he has recovered his fortune; Kooshy Ram dances because he is a madman and has tricked you; but why do you dance?

  14. The other was Vice, and she tried to wile him by a smooth life among wine-cups and dances and flowers and sports, all to be enjoyed at once.

  15. That king was Charles the Eighth, then a boy of twenty, who was making his days fly merrily with tilts and hawking parties, and his nights with dances and the whispers of fair dames.

  16. After that it had been neglected and half forgotten until David brought it with songs and dances to God's holy hill of Zion.

  17. They began to circle round the altar they had made in one of their solemn dances to the shrill strains of pipe and flute.

  18. He used no "much speaking"; he did not adopt the dervish yells and dances and gashings which were abhorrent to God, though they appealed so powerfully to the sensuous imaginations of the multitude.

  19. They had several dances together; in her quiet, gentle way Lady Marion confided to him that she preferred Englishmen to Italians, whom she thought wanting in frankness and ease.

  20. She gives quiet dances and soirees, which are welcomed.

  21. I suppose she goes to picnics and dances and everything, and always knows what to say to people.

  22. And there were picnics and dances and all manner of brightness for her in her mother's campaign, to counteract the grey monotony of her earlier girlhood.

  23. Probably they've been to the best of schools, and if only you knew it, you rub shoulders with them when you go to dances and dinners and the theatre.

  24. Why, Bert had only said on the previous day that dances were a nuisance.

  25. Knowing that my next dances were with you, I felt that no special attention would be drawn to my absence, so I excused myself and slipped out.

  26. He clearly remembered that after young Melville's dance the next three dances were his.

  27. Twenty-one to twenty-four dances are sufficient.

  28. Do not drag through dances as if you found them wearisome; it is an insult to your partner, but while you are cheerful and animated, be lady-like and dignified in your deportment.

  29. The most popular dances of the present day, are, first, the quadrille.

  30. If you wish to go to the supper-room, accept the invitation that will be made, after the dances whilst it is open, but do not remain there long.

  31. It is, therefore, enough for me to know that these dances are tolerated, and that, even were I so inclined, I could not exclude them.

  32. Other dances follow in any order you prefer until the fourteenth, which should be the march which announces supper.

  33. No woman is fitted for society until she dances well; for home, unless she is perfect mistress of needlework; for her own enjoyment, unless she has at least one accomplishment to occupy thoughts and fingers in her hours of leisure.

  34. I'd say, 'You want a couple o' my dances with Miss Pratt, ole man?

  35. However, William decided to discard his ankle, after they had "sat out" two dances on account of it.

  36. You GOT to give me anyway TWO out of all your dances with her!

  37. He was certain to be late to the party--so late, indeed, that it might prove difficult to obtain a proper number of dances with the sacred girl in whose honor the celebration was being held.

  38. The Italian of our time is too quickly intimidated, forgets too soon, wears the rosette in his button-hole when he should put crape round his arm, dances with too ready an indifference on the grave of his hopes and of his friends.

  39. Their dances consisted in going through light movements without stirring from their places, and entertained us considerably.

  40. Lameth, whose family had been overwhelmed with kindness by the Queen, and others, who all refused, so that many of the dances had to be given up.

  41. Vestris was tall and imposing, and was not to be excelled in dances of the grave and sedate order.

  42. Of dances the Kavirondo have four--the birth dance, the death dance, that at initiation and one of a propitiatory kind in seasons of drought.

  43. But let not the reader imagine that the dances of the old time were like our own.

  44. I had nearly the same little dialogue with each hero that addressed me, and as there were but four slow dances on the programme for the evening, I was soon in a trying dilemma.

  45. It is unpardonable vulgar and rude of you to take exception to any dances on the programme, as if Mrs. Hartmann would allow any impropriety where her own daughters are concerned.

  46. Gay debonair men and handsomely dressed women attended these dances and parties and made life one never-ending round of merriment.

  47. Sibyl had a "set," which was very gay and overflowed with parties where cards were played for favors, and in little dances which were said to be very "select.

  48. And it sounded good and gay Nights I drove her home from dances When the east was turnin' gray.

  49. After a few more songs and dances Koriko and her ensemble began preparing to depart, whereupon His Majesty presented her with a small gift, or perhaps an honorarium, wrapped in gold paper and tied with an elaborate purple bow.

  50. Between dances Koriko urged more sake on the men, joked with His Majesty and with Ken, and induced them both to sing a racy song.

  51. Following on these dances came feasts of unheard of magnificence, during which the pope in the sight of all men completely ignored Lent and did not fast.

  52. After these solemn functions the customary pleasures followed, and the pope summoned the prettiest girls of the country and ordered them to dance their national dances before him.


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