How to Use arabesque in a Sentence

arabesque

1 of 2 noun

• She held her arms in arabesque.
• The students practiced their arabesques.
• The years of arabesques, pirouettes, and high-impact landings began to take their toll.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2019
• Watching all the pirouettes and arabesques will surely work up your appetite.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 15 Dec. 2019
• But also, in the Arab world, stories often have this arabesque structure.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 20 Aug. 2021
• Even more magical than the pullout bed, though, is the arabesque staircase leading to the new penthouse space.
  — Kathleen Hackett, ELLE Decor, 16 Dec. 2022
• The crowd is captivated with every leap, lift and arabesque.
  — CNN, 30 Apr. 2022
• The double barrel vault ceiling has stenciled sea shells and arabesques.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• An arabesque performed with a wind-milling arm contrasts with the looseness of his collapsing spine.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2022
• The Coronation Sword Belt, also known as the Girdle, is again made of gold cloth and embroidered in gold thread with arabesques and scrolls.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 2 May 2023
• One cover, designed by a West Point Fellow, features a sort of arabesque of artillery shells.
  — Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
• That being said, Act 2 presents many tests for the corps, most notably the famous crisscrossing of lines while holding a perfect arabesque.
  — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• At the time, a Los Angeles Times profile of Moss described her as a ballet prodigy with a perfect arabesque.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2022
• Or Anton will dive into a deep arabesque penchée only to have Cemiyon Barber swoop in and carry her off.
  — Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022
• The caseback is open and decorated on the back plate with Omega’s signature arabesque Côtes de Genève finish.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 8 Mar. 2022
• There was no decoration on the outside, no roses, no arabesques.
  — V. S. Naipaul, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
• John La Farge’s arabesque mirror from 1883 left me with palpitations of delight.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 Apr. 2022
• In the third movement of the Ninth, the alternating themes are marked at 60 and a slightly faster 63 beats per minute, giving the secondary theme a delicate arabesque quality.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 24 July 2020
• Art Nouveau is crowded with the natural arabesques and patterns that seduced Haeckel.
  — The New York Review of Books, 16 Dec. 2018
• One focuses on the delicate art of pirouettes, arabesque and croisé positions.
  — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 15 Nov. 2019
• Other motifs recur, notably a winged or swimming arabesque, where dancers balance on one leg with arms outstretched.
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2017
• The 260 rooms are filled with curves: rounded frames for the desks and bed platforms, arabesques on walls and curtains, and circular chairs positioned to take in the seafront or the evolving skyline of starchitect skyscrapers.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
• Clad in white, the corps de ballet descends a ramp to the stage in a diagonal snaking pattern, repeating a meditative sequence of arabesques and port de bras.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
• Valdes balanced on one leg for what felt like eons, changing positions from arabesque to passe develope without the use of her partner, Patricio Reve.
  — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 19 May 2018
• Buika’s voice, which carries the taut, intricate arabesques and throat-tearing passion of flamenco toward rock peaks, is every bit its equal.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 25 June 2019
• Who knew that a building renowned for an interior of rich wood paneling, elaborate plaster work and metal arabesques had even more good stuff hidden?
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 8 July 2017
• The finished volume is a funky panoply of arabesques, polygons and polyhedra, a fantasy of spikes, spines and spires, left levitating in white space or emerging spectrally from backgrounds dark as night.
  — Christoph Irmscher, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
• Everything in the pas de deux is performed deadpan, with an occasional discordant gesture, as when the man, in profile, lunges forward and opens his mouth wide, while the woman assumes a graceful arabesque.
  — Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 2 July 2020
• This will not come as a surprise to anyone who has observed the ubiquity of motifs such as the arabesque, found in Islamic mosques, Art Nouveau candlesticks, and wildstyle graffiti on subway trains.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• Anyone who's struggled through a balance sequence in yoga will be seriously impressed by Dobrev's next feat: lifting her foot up and behind her head into an arabesque.
  — Leah Prinzivalli, SELF, 10 Jan. 2018

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arabesque

2 of 2 adjective

• The first move, the arabesque sous sous, gives a simple plank an upgrade.
  — Health Staff, PEOPLE.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• Chew-Bose’s arabesque prose is sometimes lyrical to a fault.
  — Ismail Muhammad, Slate Magazine, 14 Apr. 2017
• When Ms. Bromberg held a single arabesque line that was revolved twice by Mr. Swatosh, wasn’t her arm stretching too high?
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2016
• Grandmother’s table has at least seven: a chamfered-corner marble top, palmette edge, carved arabesque apron, winged maiden supports, finial topped X-stretcher and paw feet.
  — Jane Alexiadis, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2017
• This is no surprise since the brand’s creative director, Clare Waight Keller, is fascinated with arabesque architecture.
  — Jenn Tanaka, Orange County Register, 3 Mar. 2017
• The first move, the arabesque sous sous, gives a simple plank an upgrade.
  — Health Staff, PEOPLE.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• Chew-Bose’s arabesque prose is sometimes lyrical to a fault.
  — Ismail Muhammad, Slate Magazine, 14 Apr. 2017
• When Ms. Bromberg held a single arabesque line that was revolved twice by Mr. Swatosh, wasn’t her arm stretching too high?
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2016
• Grandmother’s table has at least seven: a chamfered-corner marble top, palmette edge, carved arabesque apron, winged maiden supports, finial topped X-stretcher and paw feet.
  — Jane Alexiadis, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2017
• This is no surprise since the brand’s creative director, Clare Waight Keller, is fascinated with arabesque architecture.
  — Jenn Tanaka, Orange County Register, 3 Mar. 2017

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