prance

Somewhere between Jacob Riis and Charlie Chaplin, Murillo offers a knowing but escapist prance through need.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023

All the better to be able to wiggle, shimmy and prance your way around it.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 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

“Yours truly trusts that a modicum of caution will he exercised in the prance, to prevent delivery of uncomfortable blows to the posterior of the forequarters?”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Watch Weymouth’s perfect, tiny pointed-toe prances, adding soft punctuation to the beat.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 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

Sometimes his comic instincts do pay off, as when Thor, Jane and friends crash a neo-Olympian, Vegas-ready paradise called Omnipotence City, where Crowe’s Zeus preens, prances and speaks in a hilariously awful Greek accent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 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

Spot turns and prances down the stairs.“Weatherman says a big storm is coming. Might be a hurricane. What I tell you?”

From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Though Francesco is only a month into his journey as a traveling cast member, he pranced about the ring Wednesday with the confidence of a seasoned ringmaster.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

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

As a crowd of spectators cheered, some of the sheep pranced.

From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

Ramirez’s 4-year-old daughter - who pranced behind her mother, blowing bubbles and popping the ones that landed in her brown curls - has a lung condition.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2023

Bayard stepped up his pace, the jennet pranced and arched her neck, and Robin wanted to get down and swing along with the others.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

In some caves where enlightened paradise is depicted, it’s utopic: singers and dancers prancing in revelry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

He was prancing about and really getting into it.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026

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

With Julie Allemand holding her knees and Kelsey Plum already prancing away, the ball kissed the rim twice more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025

She sliced and stabbed at the air, prancing like a fencer.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby