PRANCE in a Sentence

prance

 v.  spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle; ride in an ostentatious manner; walk or strut about in a pompous, showy manner

1  Next he rose on his hind feet and pranced around, in a frenzy of enjoyment, with his head over his shoulder and his voice proclaiming his unappeasable happiness.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII

2  ; and the way they laid on and pranced around the raft was grand to see.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI.

3  And so, at last they came to the library, where she clapped her hands and pranced, as she always did when especially delighted.

Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIVE

4  I felt a little low in my mind as I sat up in my room after tea, and when the big, muddy, battered-looking bundle was brought to me, I just hugged it and pranced.

Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

5  In an instant it reared up upon its hind legs with a snort of rage, and pranced and tossed in a way that would have unseated any but a most skilful rider.

A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH

6  Great puddingy thighs in black pudding-cloth, or lean wooden sticks in black funeral stuff, or well-shaped young legs without any meaning whatever, either sensuality or tenderness or sensitiveness, just mere leggy ordinariness that pranced around.

Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17

7  She jumped on it, putting her arms round his neck, and he pranced along with her.

War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX

8  One day, as he went prancing down a quiet street, he saw at the window of a ruinous castle the lovely face.

Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE

9  Jo thought that was splendid, and resolved to be worthy of her knight, though he did not come prancing on a charger in gorgeous array.

Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SIX

10  The horses of Marly, those neighing marbles, were prancing in a cloud of gold.

Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA'S

11  You cannot think of humiliating me by prancing along by my side on that magnificent charger.

The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 28 THE RETURN

12  As he was finishing this work, the sound of horses prancing in the yard, and the wheels of a carriage shaking his window, attracted his attention.

The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 91. Mother and Son.

13  He should come home on a prancing horse, dressed in fine clothes and shining boots, a plume in his hat.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX

14  Yet he approached them with great diffidence and none of his late mincing and prancing.

Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII

1  When her mare began to prance about, Cay shifted in her saddle and calmed it down.

2  Then in another village they started a dancing-school; but they didn't know no more how to dance than a kangaroo does; so the first prance they made the general public jumped in and pranced them out of town.

3  She was prancing along in her new outfit.

4  It's pathetic to see fifty-year-old rock stars prancing around on stage as if they were still teenagers.

5  He was horrified at the thought of his son prancing about on a stage in tights.

6  It was this: "Pretty thin -- as long a dream as that, without any mistakes in it!" What a hero Tom was become, now! He did not go skipping and prancing, but moved with a dignified swagger as became a pirate who felt that the public eye was on him.