ballerina

Example Sentences

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I read some headlines aloud: “A ballerina and her eating disorder.”

From New York Times

The line is more shocking for the vaporous, ultra-femme falsetto in which she delivers it — as if the ballerina inside a music box opened her mouth and sang.

From New York Times

Tweed played basketball when she was younger, but she now tells people that she was a ballerina and does a twirl on her tiptoes to prove it.

From Seattle Times

Muromtseva had danced the role, considered a tour de force for the best ballerinas, for more than five years with her home company in Ukraine, China and Japan.

From Reuters

But defenders beware — that dancer happens to weigh 240 pounds and feels less like a ballerina and more like a boulder.

From Washington Post