pirouette
Example Sentences
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But a startup going from iPhone apps to consumer hardware wasn’t so much a pivot as it was a whole entire pirouette—followed by a couple of back flips.
Every turn, sweep, and pirouette channels the elements—a dip births a bolt of lightning arcing down from the sky.
From Literature
From morning till night it continued: the choosing of outfits, the practicing of pirouettes, the making of to-do lists.
From Literature
In Hover mode, the joystick provides fine-grained yaw control, allowing the BlackFly to execute its surreal pirouette.
Yet, their conversation always pirouettes back to the gap between the real world and the movies.
From Los Angeles Times
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