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Meanings of polka in English
Central European dance and also a genre of dance music.
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Examples for "polka music"
Examples for "polka music"
1
It sounded like polka music played by an orchestra dying of bubonic plague.
2
I heard polka music oompahing cheerfully through the hall as I approached the room.
3
He picked up the phone, and a second later I heard polka music pumping through the little speaker.
4
I watched him go and said, after the door swung shut, "Bunny slippers and polka music."
5
Spirited polka music was pumped out from the Village Bakery on to a sidewalk still littered with broken glass from shattered windows.
1
They had probably gone to a barn dance down in the Bohemian township.
2
You're carrying a lady there, not swinging some wench at a barn dance.
3
It's a little like being at an overly aggressive barn dance.
4
Often I have heard it sung in shrill, piping voice at harvest supper or barn dance.
5
Now came the festive barn dance.
Usage of polka in English
1
Have you seen my coat-tails fly?' The polka was merry and unattractive.
2
Jazz might be second to polka as the deadest music in America-
3
Tennyson is dancing the polka and smoking cloud upon cloud at Cheltenham.
4
Then he paused; the polka would not come-theother voice was louder.
5
Francesca was gliding around the tables in a long black-and-white polka-dotted cape.
6
Meet and greets with lots of tattooed people in polka dot dresses.
7
Anyhow, you can play the Goblin polka if we get stuck up.
8
The band had already played a quadrille, a polka, and another quadrille.
9
Mellifluously spoken, over-shaved, and in the custody of his polka-dot bow tie.
10
He walked over to his polka suit, still piled in the corner.
11
Nina leaned on the worktable, flashing her polka-dotted pink and green nails.
12
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13
We each grab on to a pink polka-dotted sleeve and tug violently.
14
The blacks polka-dotted the ground around the tree, staining Avalyn's bare feet.
15
She was back in her polka-dot dress and big floppy hat look.
16
You are to dance the polka quadrille with her, are you not?
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Polka through the time
Polka across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common