How to Use pas de deux in a Sentence

pas de deux

noun
  • But there’s a gem of a pas de deux at the center.
    — Rachel Howard, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2026
  • One side quest was doing pas de deux [a dance duet].
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Winter sashays into summer, while spring and fall pas de deux.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 21 May 2019
  • Your lead singer does an Astaire-and-Rogers pas de deux with a lamp.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Control of your smiling face as your feet scream in your pointe shoes at the end of a long pas de deux.
    — Chloe Angyal, Marie Claire, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Fashion and the ballet have danced an elegant pas de deux for decades.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Their spooky pas de deux takes place within a web of personal intrigue.
    — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
  • And so, the grotesque pas de deux between the police and the press continued.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Partnering work — or pas de deux in ballet — has always been my anchor in dance.
    — Nina Garin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Doors and trunk lids swing open in rhythm, setting up a pas de deux between drivers and their passengers.
    — Melissa Yeager, azcentral, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Dreams The Bottom Line A torrid pas de deux that leaves scars.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2025
  • During the last act of each film, the final girl and Jason lock into a grisly pas de deux.
    — Grant Sutton, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Étoile dancers are featured in the clip preforming a series of pas de deux from the up-and-coming ballet.
    — Cara Zimmerman, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 June 2017
  • Her dancers were all gay, and this enabled her, as a pop star, to present herself in a new kind of pas de deux with masculinity.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The flaying and dismembering of a deer, a task shared by two hunters, unfolds as a vigorous pas de deux.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Betty Buckley has a somewhat more cheerful conclusion to draw from this strange pas de deux.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • In the second movement, a gorgeous, somber pas de deux pulls the focus inward, like sheltering in place.
    — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Mitchell’s partner for one of the pas de deux was a white ballerina, Diana Adams.
    — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
  • At a performance with Veyette a week before her farewell, in the pas de deux, the two kept seeking each other out with their eyes.
    — Marina Harss, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The loveliest moments came in the second movement, where the violin has its sweet-sad pas de deux with flute, and then clarinet.
    — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Fashion and art have long danced a pas de deux, with artists evoking dress in their work and designers referencing art in their creations.
    — Dana Thomas, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Robichaux also brought passion to the final pas de deux, with Andre Gallon as her prince.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The dream ends with the garden’s King and Queen performing a pas de deux in the visitors’ honor.
    — Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Inoue and Akana’s pas de deux stuck out in the piece with complex and expansive movements, including turns and lifts.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The pas de deux has a diamond-like prism effect, a lot of separating and coming back together.
    — Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The ballet’s high point comes in the third act, with simultaneous pas de deux outside Musetta’s cafe.
    — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Soloist India Bradley recalls working on a pas de deux in Partita.
    — Vulture, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The second pas de deux occurs in Juliet’s bedroom, after the secret wedding.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2023
  • At the beginning of our pas de deux, five years ago, Sondheim would receive me in his East Forties town house.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2022
  • In the titular act, a couple danced what resembled a traditional ballet pas de deux taken to the air.
    — oregonlive, 30 June 2022

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