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Meanings of pirouette (pirouettes) in English

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Usage of pirouettes in English
1
She started gnawing on her fingernails, her mind engaged in terrified pirouettes.
The irish warrior
2
How is it possible to fall in love with legs and pirouettes?
Letters of Two Brides
3
She sways and pirouettes, a willow in the teeth of a gale.
The Irish Times
4
Instead of doing pirouettes to Tchaikovsky they dance to heavy metal music.
BBC
5
He pirouettes round them and departs to add to the happiness of others.
Dear Brutus
6
She pirouettes, and her purse, weighed down by the thermos, bangs her hipbone.
Robin and ruby
7
She pirouettes round me before playfully bumping my leg with her whiskered muzzle.
The Guardian
8
A ballerina pirouettes across the precipice of a thin rope suspended in the air.
The Irish Times
9
This "tribute" Lemoyne took in character, with certain graces, pirouettes and smiles.
Bertram Cope's Year
10
Coming to rest, it performed jerky pirouettes around the breastbone.
206 Bones
11
Down below, Sushi K pirouettes spastically as a beer bottle caroms off his forehead.
Snow Crash
12
It has done a few pirouettes, and only 65% of it is left.
The Guardian
13
He did a couple of pirouettes on the pitch.
Independent.ie
14
In the first half, she constantly twirls and pirouettes in an outrageous display of arrested girlishness.
The Guardian
15
I have seen your goddess dance once, and I am weary of her pirouettes and minauderies.
Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends
16
Effortless pirouettes and pliés, bodies sailing through the air - it's all poise and gravity-defying grace.
The Irish Times
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