ballerina

I have not had one since I was training to be a ballerina when I was a kid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Monson de Kansky never became a world-famous ballerina.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

She was a ballerina, and that was what mattered most.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

The nutritional deprivation she suffered caused her to lose the muscle tone she needed to pursue her dream of becoming a ballerina.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

On the night table a ballerina held aloft a lamp shade, and a soft pink light bathed her porcelain tutu, accentuating the curves of her strong legs.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

Arguably most prominent was her role as the central of five ballerinas in “Divertimento No. 15,” Balanchine’s Mozart-inspired confection from 1956, where she displayed gyroscopic turns and air-filled, feathery footwork.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

Blessedly, these ballerinas didn’t learn their skills in prison or the foster system, and their tutus are not fodder for a satanic pyre.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2026

But Giorgos Mavrogordatos, emeritus professor at the University of Athens criticised the evzone display as "extravagant figures resembling ballerinas for the pleasure of tourists".

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025

Of all the characters, she offers the best understanding of the compulsion ballerinas have to keep dancing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025

The gravity-defying performances of those dancers, with their impossible leaps and lifts, and ballerinas who spun ’round tirelessly, like those on the tops of music boxes—well, that sounded well worth the trouble.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood