waltz

My stomach was in knots as I pictured myself clad in a lemon chiffon dress looking like a dollop of meringue, doing the Viennese waltz — something resembling a Centrum Silver commercial.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

And wow did they waltz right through that open door.

From Slate ● May 23, 2026

I don’t know any woman who doesn’t live some version of this life, locked in a sentimental, twisted waltz with the difficult woman who raised her.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

For their first dance, they had practised a traditional waltz.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026

I told him and Momly and Maddy about being chosen for the 4x800 relay team, and doing the waltz.

From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds

Throughout, it’s an elegant work, drifting from slow-burning waltzes to atmospheric explorations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2025

Wallace soon waltzes into the room to take over, having accessorised his usual clothes with a larger-than-life sparkling red bow tie.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2024

No wonder Woodward is still writing all these books; the guy’s just trying to enjoy his canapés, and the country’s top military officer waltzes over to share choice content like this.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2024

It waltzes right indoors, and right to the shiny refreshed kitchen and new family room, where it meets its dazzling friend teal.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

“When you’re seven years old and your mama waltzes out the door without so much as a goodbye, well, that’s something you don’t forget.”

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor

Rayo Vallecano waltzed to a 3-0 victory over Atletico Madrid on Sunday in La Liga, leaving Diego Simeone's side 15 points behind leaders Real Madrid.

From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026

Jennifer Coolidge waltzed by in bare feet, frequently stopping so fans could take selfies with her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2025

Back in March, however, security staff waltzed in and confiscated four standalone PCs that were networked to an inkjet printer, one after another, leaving us with typewriters to type our legal work.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2024

Saka waltzed through a static Hammers defence to score his second after the break, before Declan Rice made it 6-0 with a rocket of a shot from distance against his former club.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2024

Little girls waltzed with each other, round and round on the warm summer sidewalks.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

“If anyone expected the two of them to duke it out in Wright’s much-maligned rotunda,” Huxtable writes, they’d be shocked to discover the two Franks waltzing harmoniously instead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

Likewise, in a town just north of Manchester, fans queued up to see their own waltzing, weaving wizard in Jay-Jay Okocha, who became the face of Sam Allardyce's Bolton Wanderers revolution.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

The iconic president’s son failed the New York bar exam twice and co-founded George magazine, a glossy devoted to waltzing at the intersection of politics and popular people.

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026

What gives with this senescent New Year’s tradition of still waltzing 200 years since the birth of the dance’s greatest maker, Johann Strauss II?

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024

He was waltzing while the rest of us hopped a jig; he was deaf to the raucous music of our lives, and we were deaf to the serene polyphony of his.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover