How to Use prance in a Sentence

prance

1 of 2 verb
  • The singer pranced around on stage.
  • The little boy pranced across the room in his cowboy costume.
  • And the preacher pranced around the stage.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The children prance like ponies in and out of warm, salt sea.
    — Patricia Spears Bigelow, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Then Surge zipped through a tunnel and pranced around the ring.
    — Ross Mantle, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • All dinosaurs once pranced, strolled or lumbered about on two legs.
    — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 1 June 2015
  • Because who doesn’t want to prance through the woods and feel like a woman fairy?
    — New York Times, 30 July 2021
  • Women pranced, stretched, bowed, rolled in the grass, ate churros, kissed with tongue.
    — Lena Dunham, Glamour, 5 July 2017
  • Tipping your hat to the women who pranced down the aisle before you?
    — Southern Living, 28 Nov. 2017
  • Griffin pranced on stage wearing black jeans and a black T-shirt.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
  • Colette pranced by, her curls dangling in a ponytail.
    — Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Sometimes, his three-year-old sister would prance barefoot over the cool tile and hug him.
    — Hazlitt, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Lizzo plays as the islanders prance about in shiny red outfits and devil horns.
    — Charlotte Walsh, Vulture, 3 July 2021
  • Billy’s sister has had more success in her attempts to prance like a horse.
    — Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Even when that reminder comes in the form of a silly, prancing poodle.
    — Nora Princiotti, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Robin Williams, clad in a dowdy dress, prancing around with a British accent.
    — Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 13 June 2019
  • Time and again, retread White coaches fail in one city and simply prance across to the next.
    — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Under dark blue lights, Khalid pranced around the stage with the spotlight beaming down on him.
    — Nerisha Penrose, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The shop dog, Paris, a silver toy poodle, prances around like a wind-up Steiff toy.
    — Catherine Blinder, courant.com, 10 July 2019
  • The pair continue to prance throughout the show as a sort of Greek chorus.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 6 June 2017
  • In addition, eight foals will prance in an arena to show off their youthful spirit.
    — Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 11 June 2019
  • This prancing herd of wild mustangs can be spotted from the river, on a kayak or inner tube.
    — Madeline Gunderson, USA Today, 17 June 2026
  • Once the staff rolled up two sides of the fence, the animals pranced off, bobbing up and down through the desert flora.
    — Alex Devoid, azcentral, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Though the last section may be a polka in meter, there’s nothing light and prancing about it.
    — Janine Parker, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2019
  • This pope doesn't prance around in red Prada shoes like the previous quitter pope.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Dec. 2017
  • Drab pranced around the football field to talk to numerous friends and competitors.
    — Bob Narang, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2017
  • From this long distance, the horse is a tiny white figure prancing timelessly across the brow of the hill.
    — Emily Cleaver, Smithsonian, 6 July 2017
  • Who wouldn’t want to prance around à la Carrie Bradshaw in a pair of kitten heel mules?
    — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 29 June 2021
  • But a scruffy black-haired dog named Holly pranced through the snow with a coat cinched around her torso and a pink ball in her mouth.
    — New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Wild antelope prance freely while bison lazily graze in pastures.
    — Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 17 Apr. 2026

prance

2 of 2 noun
  • There’s simply no greater joy than watching a dog prance and splash in open water for the first time.
    — Todd Stewart, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The most popular horses prance on the outside of the four rows.
    — Michael Tortorello, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Researcher has come to suspect that the urge to prance may be unstoppable.
    — Jack Handey, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Chorus girls prance with feather fans and glowing hula hoops.
    — Misha Berson, The Seattle Times, 12 May 2017
  • As the spoonbills prance on sandbars, a reddish egret performs a vaudeville-style dance to stir up fish.
    — Robin Soslow, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Lights prance to Christmas music from dusk to midnight daily.
    — Genny Howe, sacbee, 8 Dec. 2016
  • They are both shown balancing on one leg, in the middle of what the piece's creators describe as a prance.
    — Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The highlight is the dragon dance, when teenagers from the church prance around in elaborate costumes with eyes that light up.
    — Kathleen Purvis, charlotteobserver, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Rahm made his ball prance lightly across the pond, as if it had been tossed by Opie Taylor hisself.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The pigs would occasional prance down onto the beach for a snack from visitors.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 7 Mar. 2017
  • Then Remus coolly jumps out of the pool himself, and the two prance off together, wagging tails.
    — Allison Klein, Washington Post, 17 May 2018
  • Please enjoy — because those folks in the background watching the robot prance around certainly are.
    — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 5 July 2018
  • Peg’s fingers prance and unsettle in Petrie’s memory; the lawyer’s style begins to crack.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The outfits change, the hair changes, the choreography changes — but the primal urge to preen, prance, and get the f— out of our own heads is eternal.
    — Merle Ginsberg, HollywoodReporter, 18 Nov. 2025
  • In the clip, the formerly shy and slow-moving dog happily prances after Jeanette as the pair trots around a backyard.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Taking our last wistful stroll along the Rue des Peres, Pierre’s tiny-dog prance seemed all the more confident.
    — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Show tunes blast over the speaker as a puppet named Yellow Cat (who is, indeed, a yellow cat) prances and twirls across the floor.
    — Jonaki Mehta, NPR, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Seeing the beloved creature of my childhood petrified mid-prance in perpetuity was crushing.
    — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 8 July 2019
  • In the two-minute video Dion dances and prances and strikes poses at the Ritz Paris while wearing mouth-watering couture creations.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 21 July 2017
  • Milwaukee prances into every game thinking their talent will overtake their opponent.
    — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • In both Trinidad and Brooklyn, revelers prance and dance through the streets, painting one another with mud and paint to the tune of steel-drum-band rhythm sections.
    — Gregory Scruggs, The Root, 2 Sep. 2017
  • The best collegiate players in the country preen and prance nightly before Major League scouts, and gems emerge from diamonds.
    — Bill Higgins, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2019
  • Held at different exercise studios, the classes teach yoga or Pilates while kittens run, prance, stalk and sit among the exercise mats.
    — Amy McRary, USA TODAY, 27 June 2017
  • But live, as the bounce and prance, pound and churn, as the rainbow confetti costumes come out, CHAI is magnificent.
    — Kevin Williams, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2019
  • Eight years later, however, his premature pregame prance remains a source of personal embarrassment.
    — Michael Silver, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • As not to appear sexist, Noel then does his prance, followed by Dame Prue Leith, who does what the British would call twerking and everyone else would call ants in the pants.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Because life leaves them little else on which to stake their pride, in many scenes, men in Hallencourt—everyone from Eddy’s friends to his father—prance around naked, to reaffirm their manhood in the most biological sense.
    — Samuel Metz, New Republic, 8 June 2017
  • During the show, which is produced using state-of-the-art technology for arena theater, 25 Marvel superheroes and villains punch, prance and parkour their way through an epic journey created for fans of all ages.
    — Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Rodrigo’s fellow high-school nihilists prance about the gym (then a darkroom and a football field), on the verge of graduating into either academic indoctrination or Big Tech, Fake News social authority.
    — Armond White, National Review, 21 July 2021

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