How to Use pirouette in a Sentence

pirouette

noun
  • Or whips around his defender in a bold pirouette.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
  • One day, my 70-pound male bulldog did a pirouette into the bay.
    — Sarah Cook, al, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Watching all the pirouettes and arabesques will surely work up your appetite.
    — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 15 Dec. 2019
  • So long, days of getting tripped up on your dog's leash and having to do clumsy pirouettes.
    — New Atlas, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The results — both the pirouettes and the tutus — will be stunning.
    — Maura Brannigan, Marie Claire, 13 Sep. 2013
  • And the sculpture itself stood up, performed a pirouette, and fell to the floor, dead again.
    — Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The years of arabesques, pirouettes, and high-impact landings began to take their toll.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2019
  • This is helpful for a dancer doing pirouettes or a gym-goer warming up with side planks.
    — Jennifer Nied, Women's Health, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The performers strut and bounce and pirouette and leap into and out of costumes.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
  • With fewer frames to absorb, your eyes are able to follow every blow and pirouette.
    — Patricia Hernandez, The Verge, 7 Sep. 2018
  • Beth watches from the wings of the stage as Stacey performs … and falls during a pirouette.
    — Amanda Ostuni, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The jets sway and pirouette to music on a stage of interlaced basins, canals and circular pools.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 29 May 2017
  • Josh Gad was all about pirouettes and strict criticism this Halloween.
    — Michelle Lee, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
  • But McCusker fell on a pirouette on the low bar, putting her Olympic hopes in jeopardy.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 28 June 2021
  • The two pirouette around each other every 93 minutes in a deadly, close dance.
    — Sarah Scoles, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2015
  • Recalling her days as a dancer, a young woman, bone thin, took off a boot and performed an en demi-pointe pirouette.
    — David Guttenfelder, National Geographic, 17 Dec. 2019
  • During the display, streamers of green, white, pink, and violet light pirouette across the night sky.
    — Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 19 Aug. 2025
  • In the video, Crystal’s timing is perfect, a pirouette, a riot.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The results can energize dancers, who get to perform their pirouettes and grand pliés with a new perspective.
    — Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Our friends on the left pirouette from position to position, desperate to please the mob.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 2 Sep. 2020
  • The Broncos ended their first touchdown drive with a diamond pirouette play lined up wide right.
    — Dave Southorn and Chadd Cripe, idahostatesman, 16 Dec. 2017
  • The most recognizable, these days, is the iPad pirouette, evoking an upturned palm.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • For the big guy, did a full 360, did a pirouette on the way in, lookin’ like Baryshnikov heading to the goal-line.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 5 Aug. 2022
  • One focuses on the delicate art of pirouettes, arabesque and croisé positions.
    — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 15 Nov. 2019
  • The history of Olympic figure skating is shaped almost as much by epic falls as by soaring pirouettes.
    — Brian Mann, NPR, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Curry kept his hand in the air a little longer, did a pirouette and smiled, his 28 points one better than Conley.
    — Broderick Turner Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2021
  • Lensky, danced by Wei Wang, steals your heart while whirling through impossible pirouette sequences.
    — Rachel Howard, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Her pirouettes were followed by the sultry saunter of Maleficent, replete with sparkling horns in green and purple.
    — The Masked Observer, AL.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Even granting that Villalobos is a part written as all pirouette, Debrez throws in plié and jeté, too.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Some will label a pirouette a Zidane turn; others might attribute it to Diego Maradona.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024

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