How to Use acrobat in a Sentence

acrobat

noun
  • As if all the bells and whistles weren’t enough — there’s an acrobat!
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 11 Apr. 2021
  • There are acrobats, there are life-sized puppets.
    — Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Is Lucifer the acrobat who has been damned by an almighty god?
    — Vulture, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Some people are just dance crews and some people are just acrobats.
    — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 23 July 2019
  • And many freestyle skaters thrive as their warlord’s favorite jester-acrobat.
    — Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2022
  • One figure holds the snake like an acrobat, another has a rope around his neck.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 5 Mar. 2022
  • The aerial acrobat who once was Alysa Liu is gone.
    — Elliott Almond, Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Then, to go from there to being in a rehearsal and starting to see the dancers and the acrobats.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2024
  • There was an aerial acrobat and someone walking around with a snake.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2022
  • But so do acrobats, stunt men, event planners — and plenty of models.
    — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Think fire dancers, aerial acrobats suspended from the roof, and live jazz.
    — Shivani Vora, Architectural Digest, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Inside him an acrobat tumbled over death.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The goal was to recreate the custom pattern of the unitards on the hair and faces of the acrobats.
    — Madison Malone Kircher, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The talented dancers, acrobats and thrill acts that paved the way to the finale impressed him to no end.
    — Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • Kinski played Mignon, a mute acrobat and street performer, in the film.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
  • Pink is an acrobat and a half Pink started the show in the rafters, about a 100 feet in the air.
    — Joshua Medintz, The Enquirer, 27 July 2023
  • Skilled acrobats and aerialists are required to act.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2026
  • Squirrels are quite the acrobats themselves.
    — Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
  • As the acrobats danced and flipped, the rings were raised into the air to symbolize the rebirth of the Games.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Take, for example, the shoes the flying acrobats wear on the Wheel of Death.
    — Ryan Slattery, Travel + Leisure, 29 Jan. 2025
  • These migratory aerial acrobats need a lot of energy to beat their tiny wings so fast.
    — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 May 2026
  • The men, at times, became rubbery acrobats, bending, buckling and then springing back to life.
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The report added that the female acrobat had been married to her husband for more than a decade and left behind two children.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The acrobat trio made it to the finale, but ultimately fell short of the winning title.
    — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Though his feature debut is billed as a genre hire-wire act, Elcar simply isn’t enough of an acrobat to put on a show.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The crowd is happy for them, but the acrobat's sister is angry at the prospect of refunding the crowd's money.
    — Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Heiduck, the police spokesperson, said that the aerial acrobat was not using a safety rope at the time of her death.
    — Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The acrobat and warrior fragments also contained sand temper, which means the sculptors switched up the recipe at one point.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022
  • In 1992, low rollers fed cups of change into slot machines while acrobats swung overhead.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 26 May 2017
  • This wooden swing set also comes with an 8-foot wave slide, an acrobat bar, and two belt swings, so there is plenty for your children to do.
    — Erica Reagle, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Feb. 2023

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