How to Use hoofer in a Sentence

hoofer

noun
  • Glover’s rhythmic partner for the first half of his SFJazz run is part of the hoofer family by both blood and practice.
    Andrew Gilbert, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Dec. 2017
  • As the hoofers trade turns in the spotlight, each yields songs from the ground, scraping and stroking and piercing the floor in ways that confound the eye and ear with their intricacy.
    Siobhan Burke, New York Times, 8 July 2016
  • Five trails as short as a half-mile, paved or covered with wood chips, take hoofers over bridges and through dense oak forest, savannas and prairie plantings.
    Rick Montgomery, kansascity.com, 12 May 2017
  • This has given Mr. Nierenberg’s films a new importance for today’s young hoofers.
    Brian Seibert, New York Times, 6 July 2017
  • Highly sensitive panels allow even the lightest hoofers to make a big impact.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2003
  • The older hoofer, Velma, murdered her cheating husband and sister.
    Hugh Hunter, Philly.com, 8 July 2018
  • What better beacon of a brighter future for a country stuck in a Depression than a tiny expert hoofer who exuded confidence?
    Ann Hulbert, Time, 10 Jan. 2018
  • What better beacon of a brighter future for a country stuck in a Depression than a tiny expert hoofer who exuded confidence?
    Ann Hulbert, Time, 10 Jan. 2018
  • On the same program with these top-notch hoofers, Mr. Carmona gave an inadvertent lesson in differences between tap and flamenco.
    Brian Seibert, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Christopher Rodriguez, executive and artistic director of the Woodlawn, suggested that the theater offer adult tap classes to help hoofers with rusty skills get up to speed.
    Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Jan. 2018
  • One notable divergence was the use of a dancing chorus, an ensemble of nine young hoofers that got its own numbers, each a mix of choreography and spots for individual improvisation.
    Brian Seibert, New York Times, 29 May 2018
  • Sime wielded a thick black pencil that split infinitives, popularized inventive adjectives and nouns (hoofer, chantoosies, warblers, kidvid, boffo) and turned other nouns into verbs (authored, readied, helmed).
    Sam Roberts, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2017
  • This radical and oft-contemporary reinterpretation of an archetypal Broadway story managed both to thrill a modern audience and make Peggy Sawyer more of a timeless representative of chorus hoofers throughout history.
    Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Christopher Rodriguez, executive and artistic director of the Woodlawn, suggested that the theater offer adult tap classes to help hoofers with rusty skills get up to speed.
    Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Jan. 2018

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