How to Use dance hall in a Sentence

dance hall

noun
  • Jenks was chased from the dance hall.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Need a two-stepper or waltz ready for the dance hall?
    — Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Later, Jenks went into the dance hall.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 5 Aug. 2025
  • One opossum found out the hard way that marsupials and dance halls don't mix.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Funk, rap, jazz, and soul music melt into dancehall, reggae, and dub.
    — Vulture, 9 June 2023
  • Denver’s country dance hall is bright, loud and overwhelming.
    — The Know, Denver Post, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Overnight there, there was a shooting at a 16th birthday party at a local dance hall.
    — CBS News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • As a sweet treat, the couple served a four-layer mocha cake before everyone headed to the dance hall.
    — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Before the shooting, Jenks had a confrontation outside the dance hall with a man.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The result is a composition in which two dancers hold close like a couple in a Jamaican dance hall.
    — Siddhartha Mitter, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2023
  • But all three brothers will be on stage with Musgraves at one of Texas's oldest and most iconic dance halls.
    — Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The [surreal] sequence in the dance hall is one of the most unforgettable sequences of the year.
    — Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The reception tent was decorated to look like an old dance hall, and the night ended with Texas tacos.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 31 May 2024
  • For two decades, the most frightening sound in the north was the screech of brakes preceding a bomb being thrown through the doors of a dance hall or pub.
    — Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
  • But the Willowbrook was patently a dance hall offering food, not a restaurant with a dance floor.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
  • The building that housed the market was more than 100 years old and was previously a dance hall.
    — Ava Nightingale, Freep.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The murder occurred on April 2, 1994, at a dance hall in Lynn.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Her grandparents started the dance hall Crider’s back in the ’20s.
    — Karen Valby, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026
  • Then there were three mass shootings in California within a matter of days – in a house, dance hall and two farms.
    — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The inn is minutes from the dance hall, downtown Fredericksburg, and the Texas wine trail.
    — Stacey Leasca, Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The Broken Spoke, a legendary old-fashioned dance hall in South Austin.
    — Riza Cruz, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2025
  • On her first day of filming, Ronan was thrown into a lively quickstep number in a roaring dance hall.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
  • In the 1990s, reports of conflicts and violence in or around dance halls led to youth curfews.
    — Donna M. Owens, NBC News, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Some dance halls established rules that coat sleeves should not extend beyond the fingertips and pants should not be too tightly pegged at the ankle.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
  • When Atherton had the idea to open a dance hall at the end of the railroad line in Llano, Price supported her dream.
    — Mars Salazar, Austin American-Statesman, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Few places are as iconic as the Balera dell’Ortica, a family‑run venue that mixes restaurant, dance hall and bowling alley.
    — Jared Perlo, NBC news, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Then the movie skips ahead, to 1863, with Horizon now thriving, filled with tents, small houses, and even a dance hall.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
  • His own band, which came to be called the Offenders (later the Record Men), played dance halls and opened for bigger acts.
    — Alex Abramovich, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • There is a new bar and dance hall in downtown Denver co-founded by a young man with an old soul and an appreciation for the good old days.
    — Chierstin Roth, CBS News, 26 May 2026
  • Our backyards become little restaurants, strung with lights and softened with linen tablecloths, and our rooftops become cocktail parties and dance halls.
    — Jamila Robinson, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 June 2026

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