DANCE in a Sentence

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For DANCE, below is one of 299 sentences:
Prissy screamed at the top of her voice, more from fright than pain, and began to dance up and down, writhing to break Scarlett's grip.

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 Meanings and Examples of DANCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dance
 v.  move the body and feet to music
 v.  move quickly and lightly
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Now and then he turned his eyes from the girl's face to that of her partner, which, in the exhilaration of the dance, had taken on a look of almost impudent ownership.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  Mattie was washing up the dishes, humming one of the dance tunes of the night before.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  She wasn't a girl who could dance and flirt and she wasn't a wife who could sit with other wives and criticize the dancing and flirting girls.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  Widows should be old--so terribly old they didn't want to dance and flirt and be admired.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  It was all over your face that you wanted to dance and have a good time and you couldn't.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  You wanted to dance and I gave you the opportunity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  Prissy screamed at the top of her voice, more from fright than pain, and began to dance up and down, writhing to break Scarlett's grip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  That night at Mrs. Elsing's, when Fanny had been duly married and old Levi and the other musicians were tuning up for the dance, Scarlett looked about her with gladness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
9  She sat upon it with as good grace as possible, wishing her skirts were in such condition that she could dance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
10  The mocking light began to dance in his black eyes and all signs of earnestness fled from his face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
11  Now secure, she wanted to dance, to play, to riot, to gorge on foods and fine wine, to deck herself in silks and satins, to wallow on soft feather beds and fine upholstery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
12  It was a lovely afternoon, sunny but not too hot, bright but not glaring, and the warm breeze that rustled the trees along Peachtree Street made the plumes on Scarlett's bonnet dance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
13  He gave her a long look and his eyes began to dance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
14  She almost gave up library work to become one of the young women who dance in cheese-cloth in the moonlight.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
15  The dog had been let out and after a dance of excitement he settled down to a steady quartering of the field, forth and back, forth and back, his nose down.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence: (89 in 6 pages)
16  I smooched with him on the dance floor.
17  The young people gyrated on the dance floor.
18  They waltzed elegantly around the dance floor.
19  Numerous Umbrian towns hold their own summer festivals of music, theatre, and dance.
20  If you dance you must pay the fiddler.
21  The children learn through role-play, dance and mime.
22  Thoughts of you dance through my mind.
23  Mr Nunn has kindly agreed to let us use his barn for the dance.
24  The show was a wonderful amalgam of dance, music and drama.
25  I can't dance to music without a good rhythm.
26  Some of our competitors make quite a song and dance about the outside of their cars.
27  He whirled his partner round the dance floor.
28  She flits from one dance partner to another.
29  Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.
30  Life is not waiting for the storm in the past, but learning to dance.