WALTZ in a Sentence

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For WALTZ, below is one of 41 sentences:
People, perhaps, were standing in the snow on the quay outside, gazing up at the lighted windows and listening to the waltz music.

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 Meanings and Examples of WALTZ
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
waltz
 n.  a formal dance in triple time with a strong accent to move around a large room
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  A sudden burst of music issued from the ark, the prelude of a waltz: and when the side door closed again the listener could hear the faint rhythm of the music.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  The band on the pier is playing a harsh waltz in good time, and further along the quay there is a Salvation Army meeting in a back street.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  Villona played a waltz for Farley and Riviere, Farley acting as cavalier and Riviere as lady.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AFTER THE RACE
4  He waited outside the drawing-room door until the waltz should finish, listening to the skirts that swept against it and to the shuffling of feet.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
5  At the same moment a clapping of hands and a final flourish of the pianist told that the waltz had ended.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
6  Thanks for your beautiful waltz, Miss Daly.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
7  The piano was playing a waltz tune and he could hear the skirts sweeping against the drawing-room door.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
8  People, perhaps, were standing in the snow on the quay outside, gazing up at the lighted windows and listening to the waltz music.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
9  Her glance left me and sought the lighted top of the steps where "Three o'Clock in the Morning," a neat, sad little waltz of that year, was drifting out the open door.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
10  'It is a waltz, I think,' Miss Larkins doubtfully observes, when I present myself.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT
11  I waltz with the eldest Miss Larkins once again.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT
12  She expected him to ask her for a waltz, but he did not, and she glanced wonderingly at him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 22
13  He flushed slightly, and hurriedly asked her to waltz, but he had only just put his arm round her waist and taken the first step when the music suddenly stopped.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 22
14  After the first waltz Kitty went to her mother, and she had hardly time to say a few words to Countess Nordston when Vronsky came up again for the first quadrille.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 23
15  You've got to give me the first waltz and Stu the last one and you've got to eat supper with us.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence:
1  The waltz is a beautiful dance.
2  The waltz is an easy dance to learn.
3  The movement of a waltz is very different from that of a march.
4  Even those of us with a tin ear can recognize a waltz.
5  Arthur Murray Dance Studio in Toronto offers ballroom and Latin dancing lessons, including waltz, tango and other popular dances.
6  They waltzed elegantly around the dance floor.