The ballerina will pirouette many times during the performance. From LearnThat.org.
Something ghostly did a pirouette in front of the trees. From Wordnik.com. [Wolves Eat Dogs]
I spin around, managing just one half-turn of a pirouette. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
In this case, though, the task is to kill, not to pirouette. From Wordnik.com. [John Feffer: The Dance of the Child Soldiers] Reference
INSKEEP: Would anyone like to pirouette before we go on here?. From Wordnik.com. [Madeleine Peyroux's Nearly 'Perfect World'] Reference
Holding the full skirt out at the sides, she did a pirouette. From Wordnik.com. [Ricochet]
She felt excited, she wanted to jump up and perform a pirouette. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
Behind her, young male dancers pirouette with bayoneted Kalashnikovs. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Exposure] Reference
Obama would be well served to pirouette from Iraq to the domestic programs. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Camp Uses McClellan Book To Parry McCain's "Baghdad Stroll" Attack] Reference
He engaged in a strange pirouette during our dash to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. From Wordnik.com. [Remember the Barriers] Reference
O'BRIEN: A delicate dance, a pirouette for the space shuttle Discovery today. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2006] Reference
KING: We didn't like the way you moved your left foot there in that pirouette?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2006] Reference
"Merci" Courfeyrac did a pretty little pirouette, and beamed at the lot of us. From Wordnik.com. [kuniklos Diary Entry] Reference
The music from the radio peeked around corners and took an unexpected pirouette. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
Again the equations rose from nowhere to pirouette breezily around his thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
Timotheus paused in his wild pirouette, and gave Mrs. Hodgkins a withering glance. From Wordnik.com. [Randy and Her Friends] Reference
We're watching as they begin their docking maneuver with the pirouette in advance. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2006] Reference
He squeezed the slack out of his trigger and tried to anticipate her next pirouette. From Wordnik.com. [One Shot]
And he did a pirouette and then came down the stairs with his arms still outstretched. From Wordnik.com. [The Jazz Age's Greatest Horn] Reference
Rare because, of course, the commander can't see the space station doing this pirouette. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 28, 2005] Reference
Joel did a slow pirouette, basking in the aura left from the earlier collision of entities. From Wordnik.com. [jfloydking Diary Entry] Reference
Isn't it -- it's like when a ballerina does a pirouette, when she's going the fastest, right?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2007] Reference
MR. MCCURRY: I think there will probably be some type of pirouette and get into that subject. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry And Dan Tarullo] Reference
(Soundbite of laughter) Mr. BLECKMANN: You know, one little pirouette or one lame little jump. From Wordnik.com. [Composer Theo Bleckmann Dwells In Possibility] Reference
Discovery doing a pirouette maneuver to present its belly side to the space station occupants. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 28, 2005] Reference
Lavinia's optimism stumbled, then fell, like an ice skater who had miscalculated her pirouette. From Wordnik.com. [Soul] Reference
And then Joe Punchard danced a pirouette ('twas a comical sight, he being so bandy), and shouted. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
It was my job to pirouette for her guests, sample one, never two, sugar cookies, curtsy, and take my leave. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from the Aslyum (2)] Reference
Jessie suddenly hopped down from the chair arm and began a pirouette about the room, clapping her hands as she danced. From Wordnik.com. [The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air] Reference
The nephew of Aragon was so delighted that he gave vent to a little cry of pleasure, at the same time cutting a pirouette. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873] Reference
Her kneecaps were not fractured, but two hairpins became detached from her chevelure while she was performing a protracted pirouette. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914] Reference
When the view reached the third planet out, it halted and the image of a world began to pirouette before them like a dancer on a stage. From Wordnik.com. [Flinx In Flux]
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