How to Use jitterbug in a Sentence

jitterbug

noun

• Twist, jitterbug, cha-cha, lindy hop and more to the sounds of The Mystics.
  — The Courier-Journal, 21 June 2017
• Local dance event Get Hep Swing will be on hand to teach you the jitterbug.
  — cleveland.com, 3 Aug. 2017
• Dance the jitterbug, swing a partner and do the lindy hop with live music all night.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 3 Nov. 2017
• The couple was known to dance the jitterbug at parties.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 28 May 2017
• The event will feature 1950s drive-in style food and dance contests that include the twist and jitterbug.
  — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2018
• The jitterbug point guard out of Kentucky has assumed a prominent place on a rebuilding team as a raw 20-year-old.
  — Michael Singer, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2018
• First-date jitterbugs come in a wide swatch of colors, ranging from extremely vibrant to very, very dull.
  — Rachel Van Nes, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2020
• When teens danced the Charleston or the jitterbug in the first half of the 20th century, a big band that often featured five saxophones, four trumpets and four trombones supplied the back beat.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 12 Oct. 2017
• His variation of the jitterbug appealed to white kids who were forbidden to enter black clubs, Cavallo said.
  — Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• Andy Blankenbuehler’s Tony Award-winning choreography is inspired by everything from jazz to jitterbug to to hip-hop to ballet.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 21 June 2019
• Incredibly catchy, these dances use the rhythms and energy of jazz music in numerous styles, including the jitterbug, Lindy Hop, and Charleston.
  — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• Checker explained that before The Twist was popular, people danced touching each other, for example doing the jitterbug or the waltz.
  — Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 19 Dec. 2017
• Our generation regards political parties as a relic of an era of black-and-white television, transatlantic ocean-liners and the jitterbug.
  — The Economist, 1 Nov. 2019
• The dance and vocal arrangements by Peter Howard were especially enjoyable here, as numerous glowing, colorful jitterbugs interfered with the quartet’s journey in an attempt to fatigue them.
  — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, Pomerado News, 17 July 2019
• As freshmen last season, Jackson and Mike Sainristil flashed their physical talents, displaying elusiveness and jitterbug-type quickness.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 28 Sep. 2020
• Blues, jazz, spirituals, jitterbug and Rogers & Hammerstein.
  — Alan Goch, sun-sentinel.com, 10 July 2019
• Twist, jitterbug, cha-cha, lindy hop and more to the sounds of The Mystics.
  — The Courier-Journal, 21 June 2017
• Local dance event Get Hep Swing will be on hand to teach you the jitterbug.
  — cleveland.com, 3 Aug. 2017
• Dance the jitterbug, swing a partner and do the lindy hop with live music all night.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 3 Nov. 2017
• The couple was known to dance the jitterbug at parties.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 28 May 2017
• The event will feature 1950s drive-in style food and dance contests that include the twist and jitterbug.
  — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2018
• The jitterbug point guard out of Kentucky has assumed a prominent place on a rebuilding team as a raw 20-year-old.
  — Michael Singer, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2018
• First-date jitterbugs come in a wide swatch of colors, ranging from extremely vibrant to very, very dull.
  — Rachel Van Nes, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2020
• When teens danced the Charleston or the jitterbug in the first half of the 20th century, a big band that often featured five saxophones, four trumpets and four trombones supplied the back beat.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 12 Oct. 2017
• His variation of the jitterbug appealed to white kids who were forbidden to enter black clubs, Cavallo said.
  — Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• Andy Blankenbuehler’s Tony Award-winning choreography is inspired by everything from jazz to jitterbug to to hip-hop to ballet.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 21 June 2019
• Incredibly catchy, these dances use the rhythms and energy of jazz music in numerous styles, including the jitterbug, Lindy Hop, and Charleston.
  — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• Checker explained that before The Twist was popular, people danced touching each other, for example doing the jitterbug or the waltz.
  — Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 19 Dec. 2017
• Our generation regards political parties as a relic of an era of black-and-white television, transatlantic ocean-liners and the jitterbug.
  — The Economist, 1 Nov. 2019
• The dance and vocal arrangements by Peter Howard were especially enjoyable here, as numerous glowing, colorful jitterbugs interfered with the quartet’s journey in an attempt to fatigue them.
  — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, Pomerado News, 17 July 2019

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