prance
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The performers joked with them and made sure to prance by their table during their numbers.
From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2022
That’s why they were in position to prance jubilantly off the field when Dunlap thwarted Garoppolo’s fourth-down, last-gasp effort to add to the litany of painful finishes for the Seahawks this season.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2021
“That doesn’t I mean have to put on a red-white-and-blue shirt and prance around a hall or whatever,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2021
Take away the athletes and there would be no one to watch the despots of sport dress up in their blazers and prance through the opening ceremonies.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2021
Annie watched Guiteau prance back and forth in front of a mirror.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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Behind him, a baby coyote prances into the fog.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Mousseau said the team has grown close to some dogs, naming one Prancer because she excitedly prances around when she sees people.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
In The Unseen Queen, the BBC's beautiful documentary of family-filmed footage of the young princess, Lilibet prances and dances, pranks and laughs.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2022
And sometimes Mitski’s charming prances around the stage in her flowy dress or pantomimed door-knocking in “Should’ve Been Me” warranted a snapshot.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022
I yell as she prances into the infield.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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I could see his wild imagination at work and his interest in being an entertainer as he pranced around the house doing Elvis impersonations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
“What is dancing?” he asked jurors as he pranced and pirouetted across the room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025
It’s where Man o’ War, Seabiscuit, Secretariat and many others pranced to the winner’s circle.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2024
As a crowd of spectators cheered, some of the sheep pranced.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
The toads pranced and twirled and shimmied to the finish line where, with one final croak and sidestep, Bob passed the red ribbon, victorious.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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Yet the brand with the prancing horse logo took several years before deciding to throw its hat into the all-electric ring.
From Barron's ● May 26, 2026
Suddenly, the rock god who only three years prior hit his commercial apex with “Let’s Dance,” a master of artistic shapeshifting who pioneered music videos long before MTV existed, was prancing around with Muppets.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026
And the groove, this time led by a simple, prancing line by Mr. Maynard, simulates the rhythmic movement of tidying up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
For example, comedian John Early belts out the Chicks’ “Wide Open Spaces,” prancing about dramatically to choreographed moves, while Nicholas Braun from HBO’s “Succession” watches from the audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025
I tune out the prancing food and run through my plan.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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