- present participle of pirouette.
pirouetting
Example Sentences
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Playing the Dead’s “Blues for Allah” on this tour — an LP rooted in Middle Eastern scales, pirouetting time signatures and improvisational telepathy — put him in communion with his old friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
It also discovered 300 new locations across the country for pink waxcap, also known as the ballerina waxcap as its cap flares out like a pirouetting dancer.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025
He amassed nearly 400 videos showing great apes and other primates engaged in spinning behaviors, including somersaulting, rolling down hills, backflipping and pirouetting.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
Pulling myself up a little taller, I began pirouetting to a waltz from Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2023
She chose the gaudiest one there—four-inch-high ballet dancers in purple tutus, their pink legs pirouetting on a greenish four- in-hand.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
