How to Use tutu in a Sentence

tutu

noun
  • There is also a blouse and a tutu.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Complete with a fluffy tutu and curly hair, this doll stands out from the crowd.
    — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 6 Oct. 2022
  • This doll comes dressed to the nines in an Ankara tutu dress and large hair bow.
    — Jacorey Moon, Good Housekeeping, 29 Aug. 2022
  • In the end, the notes were buried along with her, in a pocket of her pink tutu.
    — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 27 June 2019
  • Her and her tutu and me and my cutoff jeans and dirty T-shirt.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 23 Nov. 2024
  • It’s been a long time since your tutu left God out of anything.
    — Jasmin 'iolani Hakes, Literary Hub, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Mo`opuna, your tutu has been keeping a secret for a very long time.
    — Jasmin 'iolani Hakes, Literary Hub, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The dress even has tutu-style crinoline at the bottom with all over blue and gold stars.
    — Lisa Levine, Variety, 3 Oct. 2022
  • One guy, trying to pull a tutu up to his waist, turned to give Tara a high five.
    — Ayşegül Savaş, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Next to him is a purple unicorn with a pink tutu and a rainbow mane.
    — Jacey Fortin, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020
  • The image showed the tiny tot wearing a floral dress and black tutu.
    — Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Isn’t a tutu with an elastic waistband just as saucy as a narrow skirt?
    — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 11 Aug. 2021
  • In some cases, that meant wearing a tutu over her school outfits.
    — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 21 July 2023
  • To be counted, fairy costumes must at least include wings, a tutu and a wand.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 8 May 2023
  • Codie arrives in a tutu with soft headphones, book bag and sneakers.
    — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2021
  • The stores and restaurants may have been shut, but was that a reason not to put on a sparkly tutu?
    — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Alexa, who was wearing a bright pink wig and a tutu, has been attending the event for six years.
    — Chanel Stitt, Detroit Free Press, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Curled up on a sofa, the baby star can be seen napping in a bubblegum tutu.
    — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The trio dressed as skeletons, with Dream wearing a pink tutu along with her black and white duds.
    — Char Adams, PEOPLE.com, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Even the character that looks like a wild boar in a tutu has his own personal style.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Chris's 4-year-old son Eli looked adorable in a green shirt, sneakers and yes, a black tutu.
    — Alyssa Hardy, Teen Vogue, 7 Aug. 2017
  • His photograph of a young woman in a tutu atop the wall was reprinted all over the world.
    — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 19 May 2017
  • Don’t judge someone, like a girl who wants to wear basketball shorts, or a boy who wants to wear a tutu.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 18 Aug. 2019
  • Your elf will be ready to put on the performance on a lifetime with a tutu and special stand.
    — Corinne Sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 11 Nov. 2022
  • London was dressed in a tutu and cardigan with white stockings and pink sneakers.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
  • In the photo, Olympia wore a pink tutu, hair bow and ballet slippers.
    — Jessica Booth, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Dust off your pink tutu and grab your running shoes, Bay to Breakers is here again!
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 8 May 2018
  • The joke is not just his costume (long tutu and pointe shoes) but the angle of his shoulders and the height of his arabesque.
    — Alice Robb, The New Republic, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Wearing a unicorn horn and a pink, blue and purple tutu, Mia smiles in front of a pile of presents.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Across the way are three ostriches, and across the other way are a tutu-wearing hippo and a gator.
    — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Mar. 2021

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