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Example sentences for "pirouetting"

Lexicographically close words:
pirogue; pirogues; pirouette; pirouetted; pirouettes; pirut; pis; piscatorial; piscatory; piscem
  1. Then returning he picked up Bedelia, no longer pirouetting like a ballet girl, but suddenly grown mute and stiff, and carried her to the kitchen, where Mrs. Hale took her in charge.

  2. Their Summerland lies elsewhere than Margate or the Moors; and a valse with a pirouetting table or a little gentle levitation or elongation delights them more than all the revels of the countryside.

  3. His famous horse was pirouetting as usual, and making such a noise that although his servant's steed was much more quiet, it seemed as if a squadron were going through the town.

  4. The gentleman remained at the door waiting for five or six couples, who were pirouetting to the strains of a waltz, to pass him, whilst his pale lips wreathed into a smile as sweet as it was sad.

  5. Terror-stricken and dropping the whip, he sped to the rear, to a point behind the cart, and there turned amazed eyes at the pirouetting horse.

  6. He saw the lights as before, saw them dancing and pirouetting before his eyes, and suddenly whisk away, as though satiated with their fiendishness.

  7. Then pirouetting over to the largest mirror in sight she began to smooth and twist her silken sash into place.

  8. I--" Pirouetting once more before the mirror, she divided one fleet glance between admiration for herself and scorn for Stanton.

  9. There are so many slips in this pirouetting business!

  10. The sun turned its breast purple, and green, and gold, as it fluttered down to renew its pirouetting on a cupola below, just above the river.

  11. He is just the one of all the world on whom to play such a joke," said Lottie, pirouetting into the parlor.

  12. There, I said that you would have a religion you liked," retorted Lottie, pirouetting to the dining-room door.


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