How to Use pirouette in a Sentence

pirouette

noun

• Venus did her trademark pirouette and waved to the crowd.
  — Helene Elliott, latimes.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• For the big guy, did a full 360, did a pirouette on the way in, lookin’ like Baryshnikov heading to the goal-line.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 5 Aug. 2022
• The results — both the pirouettes and the tutus — will be stunning.
  — Maura Brannigan, Marie Claire, 13 Sep. 2013
• And the sculpture itself stood up, performed a pirouette, and fell to the floor, dead again.
  — Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
• Beth watches from the wings of the stage as Stacey performs … and falls during a pirouette.
  — Amanda Ostuni, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2022
• But McCusker fell on a pirouette on the low bar, putting her Olympic hopes in jeopardy.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 28 June 2021
• One day, my 70-pound male bulldog did a pirouette into the bay.
  — Sarah Cook, al, 28 Oct. 2019
• The years of arabesques, pirouettes, and high-impact landings began to take their toll.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2019
• Watching all the pirouettes and arabesques will surely work up your appetite.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 15 Dec. 2019
• Curry kept his hand in the air a little longer, did a pirouette and smiled, his 28 points one better than Conley.
  — Broderick Turner Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2021
• The jets sway and pirouette to music on a stage of interlaced basins, canals and circular pools.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 29 May 2017
• In the video, Crystal’s timing is perfect, a pirouette, a riot.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 27 Apr. 2022
• With fewer frames to absorb, your eyes are able to follow every blow and pirouette.
  — Patricia Hernandez, The Verge, 7 Sep. 2018
• The two pirouette around each other every 93 minutes in a deadly, close dance.
  — Sarah Scoles, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2015
• This is helpful for a dancer doing pirouettes or a gym-goer warming up with side planks.
  — Jennifer Nied, Women's Health, 30 Aug. 2023
• Some will label a pirouette a Zidane turn; others might attribute it to Diego Maradona.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• Espinoza took a pass from Nick Lima at the top of the area, did a pirouette to evade two defenders and slipped a side-netter inside the far post to open the scoring in the 50th minute.
  — Staff and News Services, SFChronicle.com, 7 Oct. 2020
• Our friends on the left pirouette from position to position, desperate to please the mob.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 2 Sep. 2020
• JHud enforces the law with two sets of nunchucks, Miley uses a series of pirouette moves to take down a gang and Blake and Adam deliver some hits.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 29 Aug. 2017
• Recalling her days as a dancer, a young woman, bone thin, took off a boot and performed an en demi-pointe pirouette.
  — David Guttenfelder, National Geographic, 17 Dec. 2019
• The most recognizable, these days, is the iPad pirouette, evoking an upturned palm.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Jenner took the challenge to new heights and performed a pirouette pose on a moving jet ski, gracefully unscrewing the cap with the top of her foot.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 9 July 2019
• Even granting that Villalobos is a part written as all pirouette, Debrez throws in plié and jeté, too.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2021
• The results can energize dancers, who get to perform their pirouettes and grand pliés with a new perspective.
  — Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2023
• In the ballet’s finale, the audience will witness grande jetés, or leaps with splits in the air, and more than two dozen fouetté turns, a kind of pirouette on one leg.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2022
• Moments after the play, GIFs of the pirouette began flooding Twitter.
  — Dave Southorn and Chadd Cripe, idahostatesman, 16 Dec. 2017
• Her pirouettes were followed by the sultry saunter of Maleficent, replete with sparkling horns in green and purple.
  — The Masked Observer, AL.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• The Broncos ended their first touchdown drive with a diamond pirouette play lined up wide right.
  — Dave Southorn and Chadd Cripe, idahostatesman, 16 Dec. 2017
• That led to Kershaw executing a pirouette, spinning in the air when a call did not go his way during a walk of Wil Myers.
  — Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 6 May 2017
• The virtuoso Roman Mejia is ever the dashing hero, topping off pirouettes and twisting leaps with poses of flexed arms and fists.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024