(v. i.) To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhythmically.
(v. i.) To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about.
(v. t.) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about, or up and down; to dandle.
(v. i.) The leaping, tripping, or measured stepping of one who dances; an amusement, in which the movements of the persons are regulated by art, in figures and in accord with music.
(v. i.) A tune by which dancing is regulated, as the minuet, the waltz, the cotillon, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) His verdict of her that "she danced on the graves of her husband's victims.
(2) In the dance off tomorrow should be Dave and Karen and Mark and Iveta, but it wouldn't surprise me if Fiona and Anton were in the bottom two instead.
(3) The Taliban banned television, music, dancing, and almost every other pastime, from kite-flying to cinema-going.
(4) I encourage you to visit your local care home on Friday to take part in the activities, from dance classes to tours of care homes.
(5) The station programmer of the year went to Andy Roberts of dance station Kiss.
(6) Oh, and let’s not forget about him doing bad dance moves in a video making fun of Drake’s choreography in the Hotline Bling video.
(7) Should it all go wrong, I can't see further than Dance of the Cuckoos , personally.
(8) He got in a cherry picker for Space Oddity, and managed to sing and dance.
(9) Dell'Utri managed the 1994 campaign – a dazzling phantasmagoria of dancing girls under the lights, while he saw to the shadows.
(10) It's the slogan of an old electronica & dance music festival in Berlin known as The Love Parade.
(11) His opposite number, Roy Carroll, saved at the feet of Sinclair, the County striker Izale McLeod drove inches wide, but in the 24th minute Villa were level, Jack Grealish dancing through a series of attempted tackles before putting the ball on a plate inside the penalty area for the hugely promising Adama Traoré to thump past Carroll.
(12) Saturday's programme was beaten in the ratings – at least while the two were head-to-head – by BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing.
(13) Not so in 2012, with the shortlist for outstanding achievement in dance revealed as Edward Watson for The Metamorphosis at Covent Garden; Sylvie Guillem for 6,000 Miles Away at Sadler's Wells and Tommy Franzen for Some Like it Hip Hop at the Peacock.
(14) A significant increase in the percentage of zymosan-complement rosette forming cells was seen during dancing.
(15) The purpose of this study was to determine the changes in maximum oxygen uptake (VO2max) and body composition following 8 weeks of aerobic dance using hand-held weights (Heavyhands, AMF, Jefferson, IA).
(16) She mentions the show at the Baltic in Gateshead in 2007, when one of her photographs, Klara and Edda Belly-dancing , owned by Elton John, was removed from the exhibition on the grounds that it was pornographic .
(17) The show discovered Susan Boyle and Paul Potts, but more recently has become synonymous with dancing dogs (controversially so last year, when it emerged the winner had used a stunt double ).
(18) This season’s other much awaited debut will be Natalia Osipova , dancing her first Kitri with the Royal later this month.
(19) "Anne Hathaway at least tried to sing and dance and preen along to the goings on, but Franco seemed distant, uninterested and content to keep his Cheshire-cat-meets-smug smile on display throughout."
(20) The 30-year-old, whose airway had been so damaged by TB she was gasping for breath on the stairs, told Professor Paolo Macchiarini she had been dancing all night in a club in Ibiza.
Prance
Definition:
(v. i.) To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle.
(v. i.) To ride on a prancing horse; to ride in an ostentatious manner.
(v. i.) To walk or strut about in a pompous, showy manner, or with warlike parade.
Example Sentences:
(1) "There's this mistaken idea we were just prancing about in platform shoes and bare bums to go against the grain.
(2) Other signs included a short prancing gait with head tucked in a similar manner to that of a show pony.
(3) [Would] there by any objections to the Gay Gordons performing and prancing on that occasion too?” the MoD asked.
(4) In dogs delta 9-THC but not delta 9-11-THC produced classical cannabimimetic signs including static ataxia, hyperreflexia, prancing and tail-tuck.
(5) He served as ringmaster, prancing on and off stage as fellow presidential candidates, combat veterans and YouTube celebrities all took turns paying tribute both to Trump and those who have served in the US armed forces.
(6) You need to know a bit of marine mammal psychology: if you chase after them, they’ll treat you with disdain, but if you figure out what makes them tick, they’ll dance with you under water for hours, pirouetting and prancing around you in an intoxicating aquatic ballet.
(7) Xan Brooks Dance on your own like everybody's watching Lost River had Ben Mendelsohn frugging in pursuit of a frigging, In the Name of My Daughter played "African drums" and let star Adèle Haenel engage in some tribal two-step, and The Search saw a young Chechen refugee forget the murder of his parents by prancing around to the Bee Gees.
(8) He prances around his estate, abusing his slaves as though they're characters in a sadistic game of The Sims.
(9) The scientists include Sir Ghillean Prance, former director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Thomas Lovejoy, chief biodiversity adviser to the president of the World Bank; Prof Omar R. Masera, director of the bioenergy lab at the National University of Mexico and Nobel laureate on behalf of the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and others from Oxford, Stanford and Imperial College, London.
(10) A drummer called Martin Joyce and a bassist, whose name I couldn't remember, dragged my naked body through the undergrowth to a campfire where lawyers and record executives pranced, danced and tranced to a third rate David Bowie soundtrack.
(11) A petition set up by the group has more than 1,000 signatures , including Sir Ghillean Prance, former head of the world-renowned Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew.
(12) Well, legendary German goalkeeper Sepp Maier clearly does now, as Timo Staudacher recalls: "On May 15 1976, during the Bundesliga match between Bayern Munich and VfL Bochum, a duck landed close to Maier's goal and started prancing about the six-yard box.
(13) Dario Fo has been prancing around dressed as a short, fat Silvio Berlusconi every night this week, in front of a roaring Roman audience.
(14) China must let those prancing provocateurs know how much of a price they pay when they deliberately rile us.
(15) Prince continues to prance around London like the Pied Piper, drawing faithfully queuing hordes this way and that.
(16) Getting out your phone to show your date a hilarious YouTube video of prancing pygmy goats (everyone does this, right?)
(17) Outside the Congress Center in Etobicoke, a western suburb of Toronto, a man with a demon mask pranced in the street holding a sign that said “Welcome to Harperland”.
(18) He has an onstage fool, Jacky, who dances and prances wearing Auschwitz-style pyjamas, complete with yellow star.
(19) Cue tears on the pitch and much laughter from the visiting fans, who had witnessed thousands of idiots prancing around, only to collectively fall to their knees as the news spread."
(20) The dancers fearlessly responded to the acute violence of the previous night’s events by prancing and voguing .