jiving

Example Sentences

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Today, the “damas” or “big mothers” as the dancers are known, can be found dancing in the early mornings and evenings, blasting their stereos, waving fans and scarves, while jitterbugging, waltzing and jiving.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 17, 2021

Nobody captured the bonhomie better than Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who told a whooping crowd of party faithful, “You all represent the most jiving, hip, happening, and generally funkapolitan party in the world.”

From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2021

Is hand jiving to Dancing Queen from inside a stationary Ford Focus on your bucket list?

From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2020

Another jazz star, trumpeter Roy Eldridge, told Esquire magazine in 1961, “I think he’s jiving, baby.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2015

It was rather like someone’s dad turning up at the school disco and jiving awkwardly with the kids.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall