pirouette
Example Sentences
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In Hover mode, the joystick provides fine-grained yaw control, allowing the BlackFly to execute its surreal pirouette.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
Like a dainty ballerina, the world's biggest iceberg has just completed a perfect pirouette.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2024
During so-called learning walks, the animals then explore the immediate surroundings around the nest entrance and repeatedly pirouette around their own body axis with short stops in between.
From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2024
My pubescent nerves did a pirouette in my stomach as we hung up, retreating to the haven of instant messages.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2024
She rose on tiptoe and performed a single, wobbly pirouette.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
