How to Use tap dance in a Sentence

tap dance

noun
  • Take a tap dance class or a pottery course; join a book club.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • A lot of people wanted to tap dance.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
  • Lowering the gate doesn't have to be a tap dance to get out of the way.
    — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 4 Nov. 2019
  • This is not an unfamiliar tap dance.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2026
  • This is a guy whose major musical skill was tap dancing around the truth.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
  • How many people in this world can say Bill Robinson taught them how to tap dance?
    — Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The whole episode is about the tap dance these characters have to do in order to fund news coverage.
    — Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 7 June 2024
  • In fact, the entire thing was staged like a theatre show with red velvet curtains and tap dance breaks from her dancers.
    — Courtesy Of Esther Newman., refinery29.com, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The pace rapidly shifted to lyrical, modern and tap dances, along with some comedic overtones.
    — Elizabeth Moore, NOLA.com, 13 May 2018
  • As drums vanished, the beat leaped into the body and became tap dance, hip-hop, beatboxing.
    — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
  • His little tap dance at the door showed his enthusiasm to come back into the apartment.
    — Literary Hub, 28 July 2025
  • Wilson learned tap dance and ballet and appeared on Broadway at just 4 years old.
    — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Hip-hop, tap dance, jazz, African, contemporary and modern dance will be taught.
    — Caitlin Granfield, miamiherald, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The worst part of an inflatable pool is waiting to fill it up while impatient kids tap dance in their floaties.
    — Popular Science, 8 June 2020
  • The Five Points are credited as the birthplace of modern tap dance.
    — Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 7 May 2022
  • Gomez brings a wooden board to tap dance on and uses her feet and body movements to provide percussive propulsion.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2020
  • Lane Alexander has spent the majority of his career fighting like hell for tap dance.
    — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 21 July 2019
  • Cooks get to tap dance over to the stove, throwing a dash of this or a splash of that over their shoulder into a pot of simmering dinner.
    — Joy Wilson, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2019
  • People haul out a piano and play it underneath the arch for those great acoustics, people tap dance, people will busk.
    — Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 18 May 2024
  • Twigs appeared front and center on stage, entering through long, closed curtains to perform a solo tap dance.
    — Britt Julious, chicagotribune.com, 16 Nov. 2019
  • Ferrell spoke to The Times in November about learning to tap dance for that scene.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Even if a show tap dances around and tries to cover it up with firework-like acting or production elements, the play will lack spark.
    — Lou Fancher, Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • So my creative mind is doing a little tap dance and daydreaming and looking out the window and thinking about things.
    — Will Hermes, Longreads, 9 June 2018
  • Our heroines have various classes in ballet and tap dance, singing, acting, and even French.
    — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 10 Oct. 2021
  • The shows feature tap dance, body percussion, and drumming on everything from buckets and barrels to pipes and tin cans.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Cardoza stood on a wooden box performing a type of tap dance, while another member tossed out a red scarf, then crawled on the ground like a lizard.
    — Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 24 Sep. 2017
  • With no fans at stadiums, and bogus sound being pumped in, well, that's sort of like a tap dance to symphonic music for the play-by-play guys.
    — Barry Wilner, Star Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Percussion came to mind with a fiddle blended in a percussive way, a horn section, and a tap dance blended into the score.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 Oct. 2024
  • As the curtain was rising, the cast was already breaking into a wild, long, frenetic and fantastic tap dance.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Bresch tap danced a little, talking about how the price hike was justified because of a brand-awareness campaign and a package redesign.
    — David Lazarus, latimes.com, 5 June 2018

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