ballerina
Example Sentences
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Any joy she had once taken in dancing had left her, as had her grandiose dreams of being, at twelve years old, the youngest prima ballerina in the history of ballet.
From Literature
“Miss Lumley, do I look like a Russian ballerina to you? I am in no mood for leaping.”
From Literature
He had an 80-yard touchdown last weekend, and the way he stayed in bounds along the sideline, it looked like he was a ballerina.
From BBC
Along her way, the ballerina’s mate supports her in some dynamic and contrasting displays of delicately dramatic force.
The writer Jia Tolentino characterized it as “what a ballerina might do if you concussed her and then made her snort caffeine pills.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
