How to Use minuet in a Sentence

minuet

noun

• The orchestra played a minuet.
• George and Martha danced a minuet, captured in a drawing displayed on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar.
  — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian, 19 Jan. 2017
• The strings sang sweetly in the second movement, and the conductor underscored the dance motifs of the minuet.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2019
• The cakewalk was a dance, created by slaves in imitation (some accounts say in mockery) of the white minuet.
  — John Jeremiah Sullivan, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2016
• The object of the game: Players compose a 16-bar minuet by rolling a die and then choosing, bar by bar, which of six musical options, composed by Haydn, should come next.
  — New York Times, 6 Mar. 2021
• The mystery genre is a minuet between disruption and order.
  — Laura Miller, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2016
• The mechanics of a Pipeline stop are much like a minuet, except the trooper is the only one who hears the music or knows the steps--all of which lead inexorably to a thorough search of your car.
  — Gary Webb, Esquire, 29 Jan. 2007
• As part of the diplomatic minuet of arranging such sessions, the Chinese side wanted to be invited.
  — Lingling Wei, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2018
• Of course, none of this mushroom minuet would have mattered had the Carnaroli rice not been cooked to the ideal balance of al dente creaminess, even while soaking up a splash of potent truffle oil, lending the dish a woodsy earthiness.
  — Andrew Marton, star-telegram, 25 Apr. 2018
• Vibrant minuets of abstract color by Marley Freeman, and the primordial exploding suns, in oil on burlap, of Alvaro Barrington.
  — Will Heinrich, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
• However, the order of those movements doesn’t follow the classical model of fast sonata form followed by a slow movement, a dance movement (usually a minuet or scherzo), and a fast sonata or rondo finale.
  — Jessica Rudman, courant.com, 13 Oct. 2019
• The whimsy of its kinetic minuet (pivotal not least to the symphony but to the future of third movements at large) carried over into an energetic finale that built from the violins and spread outward like a wildfire.
  — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2022
• The transition from the penultimate fugue to the final minuet, a series of floating chords, really did seem to be pointing beyond this world: whether toward heaven or apocalypse, Mr. Levit kept painfully ambiguous.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2017
• The quartet took a stately tempo in the minuet, emphasizing its courtly associations.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2021
• And the final march into Valhalla, staged amusingly as a pompous minuet that keeps getting interrupted by the wailing Rhinemaidens, suggested that this moment of triumph was illusory, and would be short-lived.
  — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2016
• Moments later, this prickly minuet gets reimagined; the interaction begins well enough before devolving again, ending with both women issuing a scream-queen cry worthy of this nightmare of miscommunication.
  — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 2 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024