How to Use square dance in a Sentence

square dance

noun
  • It’s true; the lumbering D and the brusque Z better suit a square dance for livestock.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2019
  • On one side a half dozen branches converge to create a bench wide enough for a square dance.
    Thayer Walker, Scientific American, 29 Dec. 2016
  • Terry and Fred took time out with friends to square dance, and Terry made all her costumes.
    M.a.c. Lynch, courant.com, 29 Apr. 2018
  • See them in action at the Saturday evening concert and square dance.
    BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2016
  • Learn to square dance with easy classes through local clubs Looking for something to do that’s fun, easy and open to all?
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Clog dancing takes influences from Wales, Irish line, African folk and square dance.
    New York Times, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Missouri even has a state fruit (Norton Cynthiana grape) and a state dance (square dance).
    Matt Campbell, kansascity, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The family played old-time square dance music at venues such as Ramona Town Hall.
    Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The sashay is also a square dance figure in which the partners take sideways steps to circle each other.
    John E. McIntyre, baltimoresun.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The Folk School Coffee Parlor is a place where folk musicians meet, jam, teach lessons, even square dance, and drink coffee.
    Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 15 June 2018
  • Clinics on the round dance, contra and the square dance are scheduled in the early afternoon with a waltz quadrille clinic and workshops at 3 p.m.
    Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2021
  • First 50 to arrive get compact disc of King square dance album and instruction book.
    Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Happy Squares Join this modern western square dance club.
    Sun-Sentinel.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Blake Bortles and the Jaguars are set up to have one of the most fascinating contractual square dances of the offseason.
    Conor Orr, SI.com, 22 Jan. 2018
  • This old-fashioned patriotic event includes a parade around the plaza, an old-fashioned square dance, 19th century crafts and games.
    Emily Sorensen, Pomerado News, 2 July 2019
  • The farm's museum will continue to host school field trips, summer square dances, and campfires, as well as monthly events like the upcoming equine day in October, said Sandy.
    Janice Steinhagen, Courant Community, 2 July 2018
  • Instead of professional actors, ordinary people will take the stage to do things such as square dance during the ceremony’s warm-up act, the paper said.
    WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Volunteer Navy square dance callers directed several of the dances.
    Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2021
  • Eighty acres remain in the family, whose fifth generation gives city folk several reasons to visit: square dances and music tributes, art fairs and farm markets.
    Mary Bergin, chicagotribune.com, 9 July 2018
  • Line dancing has replaced square dancing this year, said Mark Walker, The Center's director of development, and nobody needs to worry about keeping up.
    Ginger Brashinger, Daily Southtown, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Today’s show at 1 p.m. in Warner Coliseum features square dance teams (yup, horse and rider), jumping figure 8, drill teams, pole weaving and barrels racing.
    Kathy Berdan, Twin Cities, 1 Sep. 2019
  • In addition to musical acts, the festival will include workshops on guitar, fiddle, banjo, ukulele and mandolin, as well as dance instructors teaching hula, square dance, swing and two-step.
    Taylor Mims, Billboard, 4 June 2019
  • But group conversations can be like a square dance — everyone together, then breaking into smaller groups and pairs, changing partners, returning to the larger group.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2021
  • This family-friendly fair showcases traditional 4-H competitions as well as a petting zoo, square dance, pedal tractor pull, carnival rides on the midway and more.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 14 June 2023
  • But now suppose that many Majorana-mode pairs are shuffled around like couples in a square dance, constantly changing partners while maintaining an appropriate social distance.
    Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2021
  • In another episode, in Season 4, hosted by the folk singer Arlo Guthrie, an initially sedate Muppet square dance devolves into cheerful brutality, with the participants punching and kicking one another.
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2021

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