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pirouette
noun as in gyration
noun as in revolution
noun as in turn
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in whirl
verb as in gyrate
verb as in roll
verb as in rotate
verb as in spin
verb as in turn
Strong matches
verb as in twirl
verb as in wheel
Example Sentences
She pirouetted and handed me a single flower.
A jeté flashes in silhouette, a pirouette vanishes like a whisper.
The rest of the ensemble also capably pirouettes from jokes to terror, led by Stevens, sporting aviators and a Queens accent as the shifty, untrustworthy Frank.
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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