pirouette

A jeté flashes in silhouette, a pirouette vanishes like a whisper.

Professor Young, a neuroscientist at Emory University in Atlanta, used prairie voles in a series of experiments that revealed the chemical process for the pirouette of heart-fluttering emotions that poets have tried to put into words for centuries.

My pubescent nerves did a pirouette in my stomach as we hung up, retreating to the haven of instant messages.

Like a dainty ballerina, the world's biggest iceberg has just completed a perfect pirouette.

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.