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
A jeté flashes in silhouette, a pirouette vanishes like a whisper.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2024
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
Jimmy does a pirouette over the unaccompanied wild percussion that we’ve built up and lands on his knee: “How sweet it is!”
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
