pirouette
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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
One had to perform a double leap and pirouette to avoid the leaders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 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
“You can hope there ain’t a sortie tonight, Prince O. Or if there is, you can pirouette after the enemy to fright them.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
"I had the time of my life there. It's not a stage-stage school, but of course there's kids doing pirouettes and going 'Aaaaaahhhhh!' in the hallways," Adele told BBC 4 radio in 2022.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
At the airport, it is a suitcase that pirouettes by my side as if we’re gliding over ice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2025
The virtuoso Roman Mejia is ever the dashing hero, topping off pirouettes and twisting leaps with poses of flexed arms and fists.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
It was his dance teacher who filmed the young boy in June 2020 as he practised pirouettes barefoot in the rain.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2023
In friskier moods, she performed lazy pirouettes, as though to the accompaniment of my own music box, which I always brought to the roof to keep me company.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
The latter came with a star cameo from two of the show's young stars, Emma Myers and Evie Templeton, who pirouetted around Gaga and her dancers in wispy bridal gowns.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025
On a recent afternoon, 18 members of Birmingham Royal Ballet spun, pirouetted and leaped across a rehearsal room, with all the grace and skill associated with classical dance.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2023
“See how she pirouetted away from that question about honoring precedent — beautiful hideballet there.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2022
Like he did on Saturday night, he pirouetted and fired a throw, only this time to the plate, where he nailed Erik Gonzalez.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2021
Ahead of him, the sky pirouetted on First Congregational’s sunlit steeple.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
She did it again on the very next possession, this time coming down from the top of the key, pirouetting into the paint and dropping in the easy two-footer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
His bustling run in the final embers, spinning around and charging through Castres defenders before pirouetting over the line, could well become a trademark for club and country.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2024
He amassed nearly 400 videos showing great apes and other primates engaged in spinning behaviors, including somersaulting, rolling down hills, backflipping and pirouetting.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
Pulling myself up a little taller, I began pirouetting to a waltz from Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2023
Afterward, she stood with her mother in the busy Doubletree Hotel hallway, girls posing and pirouetting all around, while her mother talked to the coach.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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