How to Use ballroom dance in a Sentence

ballroom dance

noun

• Ice dance, then, is more like a cousin of ballroom dance.
  — Maura Sullivan Hill, Cosmopolitan, 6 Feb. 2018
• Dance the night away at the city's biggest ballroom dance social event of the year.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2022
• That night felt reassuring to the dancers, a clear sign that ballroom dance would go on.
  — J. Lester Feder, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2022
• The friends gave Munro a gift certificate to take ballroom dance classes.
  — Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 26 June 2021
• But in the evenings, the shopper for online grocery service Shipt trades in her green T-shirt for a pair of ballroom dance shoes and heads to her next gig.
  — Lorraine Mirabella, baltimoresun.com, 29 Nov. 2019
• People were still strolling through downtown when the noise echoed from a ballroom dance studio tucked into a strip mall.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2023
• George’s father, Harold, was a school bus driver, while his mother, Louise, took care of the four children and taught ballroom dance lessons.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Apr. 2022
• The act of hearing is like a ballroom dance, scientist Jaime García-Añoveros says.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 9 May 2022
• One of his goals is to shed light on the world of ballroom dance, especially all of the hard work and athleticism that go into it.
  — Alexandra Wolfe, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
• After all, good manners and a little ballroom dance know-how will always be in style.
  — Betsy Cribb, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2018
• In January, a half-block away on Garvey, a gunman opened fire on a crowd in a ballroom dance studio.
  — Jeong Park, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
• His win at the British Championships in Blackpool in his late 20s cemented him as one of the top figures in ballroom dance.
  — Vulture, 24 Apr. 2023
• After school, their group of friends would go to clubs where Ming taught Judy how to ballroom dance — tango, foxtrot, samba.
  — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2021
• The remaining 20% will don unique styles like cowboy boots, ballroom dance shoes, or even go barefoot.
  — Southern Living, 5 June 2018
• Many of the owners had become enamored with ballroom dance while growing up in Asia.
  — Corina Knoll Ben Laffin Mark Abramson, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• The mass shooting killed 11 people and shattered what has been a sanctuary for some AAPI elders: a ballroom dance floor.
  — Cecilia Lei, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2023
• Though lifts can take a ballroom dance routine to the next level, they aren't actually allowed in many dance styles.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 23 Sep. 2020
• He's seen ballroom dancing help couples work through rough patches.
  — Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, 16 Dec. 2019
• While not much is out about her professional life, the 2023 high school graduate has been ballroom dancing for years.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 10 Sep. 2023
• The week might also have marked a breakthrough for the polarizing presence of Sean Spicer, who pulled off the closest thing to a ballroom dance yet in the competition.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2019
• According to Carrie Ann, the show put the rule in place out of respect for proper ballroom dance competitions.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 23 Sep. 2020
• The mass shooting took place inside a ballroom dance club a little before 10:30 Saturday night.
  — CBS News, 22 Jan. 2023
• His latest fascination: 1980s ballroom dance culture, the downtown scene and the rise of Trump in Pose, an eight-episode FX series due later this year.
  — Gary Levin, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2018
• The tragedy has dealt a devastating blow to the city’s vibrant ballroom dance community.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 29 Jan. 2023
• Even among the many lively cultural worlds of Detroit, the city’s ballroom dancing scene is singular.
  — Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2020
• Tchaikovsky turned Alexander Pushkin’s classic Russian novel into one of the world’s most beloved operas filled with arias and ballroom dance numbers.
  — Dan Kelly, kansascity, 26 Sep. 2017
• Bergeron, who hosted the ballroom dance competition series for 15 years, tried to stop it.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 24 Oct. 2023
• In January, tragedy struck an Asian ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park, when a gunman opened fire, killing 11 people.
  — Fifth & Mission Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2023
• Since first premiering in June of 2005, the ballroom dance competition show has become a mainstay on ABC.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 3 Apr. 2021
• In addition to her home schooling, Ms. Deutscher takes classes in ballroom dance and theater.
  — Melissa Eddy, New York Times, 14 June 2019

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