How to Use minuet in a Sentence

minuet

noun
  • The orchestra played a minuet.
  • Every minute the number of people who dance the minuet grows more minute.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2022
  • Raghavan says the prototype was taught using old Belgian and French flute minuets.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2017
  • 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 strings sang sweetly in the second movement, and the conductor underscored the dance motifs of the minuet.
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • George and Martha danced a minuet, captured in a drawing displayed on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar.
    — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian, 19 Jan. 2017
  • Choreographing their minuet was one of engineers’ biggest challenges.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2022
  • As part of the diplomatic minuet of arranging such sessions, the Chinese side wanted to be invited.
    — Lingling Wei, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2018
  • McKay properly took it at an athletic one beat per measure, not the minuet’s traditional three.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • The quartet took a stately tempo in the minuet, emphasizing its courtly associations.
    — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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