How to Use maypole in a Sentence

maypole

noun

• For centuries, maypoles have been put up on the eve of May Day to welcome spring.
  — Fox News, 1 May 2018
• No one knows the origins of the maypole or knows for certain why people dance around it.
  — Cassie Armstrong, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 May 2018
• There will be dancing around the maypole, live music and May baskets.
  — Courant Community, 17 Apr. 2018
• With enough time, aquavit, and good food, I’ll be mixed in with a whole mess of them, dancing around the maypole under the never-setting sun.
  — Ashley Mason, Bon Appetit, 16 June 2017
• With enough time, aquavit, and good food, I’ll be mixed in with a whole mess of them, dancing around the maypole under the never-setting sun.
  — Ashley Mason, Bon Appetit, 16 June 2017
• That could be the tagline for Ari Aster’s terror-round-the-maypole dread-fest Midsommar, if the movie had even the remotest sense of humor about itself.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 27 June 2019
• And no Beltane party is complete without a maypole and a massive bonfire to heat things up.
  — refinery29.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• Or a dancer might trail more rope, like a leash held by other performers who wind it around her in maypole fashion.
  — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
• Watching sickly youngsters dance around a maypole wasn’t the only feature of May Day.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2018
• Then Cameron arrives and brings up the drug cabinet again, but Hope hustles him to the maypole to avoid that conversation with Doc.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 20 July 2022
• Fun and Games Midsummer is not complete without a maypole.
  — Michaela Bechler, Vogue, 22 June 2018
• In the town square, people would gather to raise the Midsommarstång (maypole), a symbol of fertility, and throw a big party.
  — Ashley Mason, Bon Appetit, 16 June 2017
• The Washington Revels lead a procession through the park before dancing around a maypole.
  — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
• This is a party, after all, and so the adults, all hopped up on champagne, try a formal maypole dance but make a mess of it and end in a heap, all perfectly in time with Tchaikovsky’s stately music.
  — Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2019
• Runes are all over Midsommar: embroidered on clothes, hanging on their maypole structure, painted on the walls.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 5 July 2019
• Another Swedish tradition includes hopping around the maypole like frogs and singing a special tune.
  — Michaela Bechler, Vogue, 22 June 2018
• Their traditions include dancing around a maypole -- a symbol which some view as phallic.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 20 June 2022
• There was something merry in all this going around, akin perhaps to dancing around the maypole, albeit in multi-ton vehicles that can cause injury or death.
  — New York Times, 20 Nov. 2021
• In Medieval England, May Day celebrations centered on the maypole, which is a pole made from wood, decorated with streamers, which are held by dancers circling the pole.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 18 Apr. 2021
• Attractions include a maypole dance, butterfly house, live music, booths and more.
  — Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 26 May 2017
• Not so Swedes, who traditionally celebrate the change of season, and light, with dancing around a maypole, herring, schnapps, and strawberry cake.
  — Vogue, 28 June 2021
• Depending on the species, the arrays can take the form of an avenue or maypole or even a stage to perform his enthusiastic, and hopefully alluring, dance movements for the females.
  — Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2011
• That afternoon outside the school, people will decorate a traditional maypole before joining hands for ring dances around the pole.
  — Jay Jones, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2018
• Details — stools, baskets of flowers, a maypole but, above all, steps and patterns — become fragrant, musical, piquant.
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2016
• By the time a few dozen women are dancing in circles around a maypole, even the camerawork — with its sinuous flow and contrapuntal push-ins and pullouts — seems to be tightening its grip on the visitors.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 2 July 2019
• In Sweden, residents celebrate the summer solstice by dancing around a maypole and feasting on herrings.
  — oregonlive.com, 20 June 2019
• Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, have watched their maypole dance for more than 20 years.
  — Sarah Scoles, Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2019
• The painting commemorates a Christian sacrament, but it is framed with Native dancers and an Indigenous sport where men suspended on ropes from their ankles or waists whirl around a tall wooden post — sort of an extreme maypole.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2022
• Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar served as a glitzy maypole in a cha cha production number with more energetic dancers swirling about him.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 May 2018
• Models danced with umbrellas, ran, played soccer, tied ribbons around a multicolored maypole and, at the end, embarked on an all-out park carnival, replete with a musical band and drummers.
  — Washington Post, 20 June 2019

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