How to Use dance in a Sentence

dance

1 of 2 verb

• He danced her across the floor.
• I like the song but it's really hard to dance to.
• She has always loved to dance.
• He never learned how to dance.
• She's a great actress, and she can dance and sing, too.
• She dances with a famous ballet company.
• Adults waved their hands in the air and danced on one and three.
  — Heather Bushman, The Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2023
• In one, Williams danced in front of the Eiffel Tour in Paris.
  — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 20 June 2023
• The producer and musician ride the waves and dance along to the track’s catchy beat.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2023
• Across the street, dinner and dancing at the Ziegfeld Ballroom was next.
  — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 30 Nov. 2023
• There will be a DJ and live dancing from 5 to 7 p.m. before the screening.
  — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2024
• Learning how to dance seems to have paid off for young Saban.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 16 Aug. 2023
• The crowd swayed and sang along, and danced and roared with enthusiasm.
  — Tamar Herman, SPIN, 25 Dec. 2023
• The award-winning artist knows a thing or two about dancing in the big earrings, too.
  — Jackie Fields, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2023
• In 2021, Prince William revealed that the family of five loves to play music in the morning and the kids dance around the house.
  — Monique Jessen, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023
• And if anything, 2023 gave us plenty of new favorite songs to dance, sweat, and scream to.
  — Grace McCarty, SELF, 27 Dec. 2023
• Sivan knows at least one surefire way to soothe his soul: dance it out, while the world keeps burning.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2023
• Before long, their colts peeped through the tall grass, begging for food and learning to dance.
  — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• Against the backdrop of a rising sun, dozens of Osage danced and sang around a drum, bringing the crowd to its feet.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2024
• The crowd of revelers swayed and danced to the music, cocktails in hand and raised to the sky in celebration.
  — Dwight Brown, Essence, 11 July 2023
• Lacerating and relentless, it is danced on a mound of dirt that sticks to the dancers’ sweaty skin.
  — Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
• El Jeffrey, a merengue song about heartbreak to dance the sorrows away.
  — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2023
• Right because neither of you would have danced Dewdrop at all.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• Cancer June 21-July 22 Turn up the music, Cancer, and get ready to dance!
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
• In one scene, Hayes dances for Solène in just a pair of black boxer briefs after some steamy alone time in a hotel room.
  — Marc Malkin, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
• Whitney wasn’t the only legendary artist Offset danced for as a kid.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2024
• Alexa and Alex danced between all the tables—stopping for hugs and kisses—and then sat down for dinner.
  — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 8 Nov. 2023
• Max touched her face where she was hit and proceeded to continue dancing as the song played on.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
• The pair danced to the music together while snapping selfies throughout the show.
  — Nikki Dobrin, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
• As a poet, Angelou’s words danced off the page, capturing the essence of the human experience.
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 4 Apr. 2024

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dance

2 of 2 noun

• The only dance he knows how to do is the twist.
• He stopped right in the middle of the dance to tie his shoe.
• How about one more dance?
• They can do all the popular dances.
• He did a celebration dance in the end zone after scoring the touchdown.
• She studied dance in college.
• His and Jenna's dance was full of flair — and lifts — and the judges loved it.
  — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 4 Oct. 2023
• Guests have use of a movie theater and a soundproofed dance room.
  — Hadley Freeman, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
• Kids can swap Ariel’s tail out for a dress and place her on a turntable to see her dance and spin around.
  — Phoebe Sklansky, Parents, 5 June 2023
• The bees with the most popular dance part earn final say on where to build.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2023
• Though neither team made it to the final dance, their triumphs over the Reign were the best part of the playoffs.
  — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2023
• On-and-off sunshine dances with hit-or-miss showers and storms.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 23 July 2023
• Last month, my friends and I signed up for the mall trip to purchase some new clothes before a school dance in the evening.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
• Van Cleef & Arpels’s love affair with dance goes back decades.
  — Ian Malone, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2023
• But by the late-Eighties, his interests in hip-hop and dance came back to him on a grander scale.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2023
• Claudel and Rodin both reveled in youth, dance and eroticism.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
• Related By the end of the video, Stromae finds movement again, and the pair join each other in dance.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 30 Aug. 2023
• The collective knows dance is fragile and wants to protect it.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• The song, and the dance, felt apt: Madonna may have dodged fate only very recently.
  — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
• Don’t be surprised at all if the Colts sneak into the postseason dance.
  — Evan Sidery, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• As the first brand new hotel in St. Thomas in over two decades, Pink Palm has had its own dance with history.
  — Tenille Clarke, Essence, 21 Dec. 2023
• But this week in dance was remarkable for something else, too: the male solo.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• Even at an unhurried pace that lets the music dance, it’s done in 10 minutes.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
• Ailey was claiming dances, good and bad, from the European canon as its own.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• Jonathan Guttman spoke about his cousin, who was taken hostage at the dance party in southern Israel.
  — Catherine Stupp, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2023
• The event opened with a dabke performance, a folk dance that originated in the region.
  — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023
• That gave me the idea to create my own style of action, combining dance and martial arts.
  — Simon Abrams, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2023
• The deal comes just as the dance competition series returns to Fox in the U.S. for a milestone 18th season on March 4.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024
• The group, which formed in Anaheim, California in 1986, embraced its ska aesthetic, right down to the dance moves, horns and fashion choices.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 14 Apr. 2024
• Expect garden tours, craft vendors, guest speakers, workshops and live performances in drumming and Aztec dance.
  — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024