How to Use acrobat in a Sentence

acrobat

noun
  • Pink is an acrobat and a half Pink started the show in the rafters, about a 100 feet in the air.
    Joshua Medintz, The Enquirer, 27 July 2023
  • The goal was to recreate the custom pattern of the unitards on the hair and faces of the acrobats.
    Madison Malone Kircher, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Then, to go from there to being in a rehearsal and starting to see the dancers and the acrobats.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2024
  • As the acrobats danced and flipped, the rings were raised into the air to symbolize the rebirth of the Games.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 11 Aug. 2024
  • As if all the bells and whistles weren’t enough — there’s an acrobat!
    Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 11 Apr. 2021
  • Is Lucifer the acrobat who has been damned by an almighty god?
    Vulture, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Travel back in time to the days of clowns, jugglers, carnies and acrobats with the Great Benjamin Circus.
    Yoshina Okamoto, Anchorage Daily News, 14 June 2018
  • The 47-year-old acrobat first walked across a flaming wire 25-feet above the ground, even performing a dance move.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2022
  • At 3:30 p.m., join a naturalist to watch these acrobats hunt in the Bay.
    Kathy Bennett, The Mercury News, 14 June 2017
  • His daughter, Dian, and wife, Annie, a Dutch acrobat, were with him throughout much of the growth of the sport and business.
    David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2020
  • The acrobats are Marawa’s Majorettes, a troupe of hyper hoopers led by Marawa Ibrahim.
    Alec Scott, Smithsonian, 26 June 2018
  • The crowd is happy for them, but the acrobat's sister is angry at the prospect of refunding the crowd's money.
    Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 25 Dec. 2022
  • One figure holds the snake like an acrobat, another has a rope around his neck.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Some people are just dance crews and some people are just acrobats.
    Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 23 July 2019
  • With its own stage, acrobats and special guests like Skrillex, the Do Lab continued its reign as one of the coolest things at Coachella.
    Vanessa Franko, Orange County Register, 24 Apr. 2017
  • The two watched acrobats in black body suits and ape ears — a nod to Kubrick’s film — swivel on a display in front of a re-creation of the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz joint mission.
    Sopan Deb, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2018
  • An acrobat rode around the court on a unicycle at halftime.
    Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 9 May 2018
  • And many freestyle skaters thrive as their warlord’s favorite jester-acrobat.
    Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The acrobat trio made it to the finale, but ultimately fell short of the winning title.
    Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Though his feature debut is billed as a genre hire-wire act, Elcar simply isn’t enough of an acrobat to put on a show.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Shop the pop-up artist colony for handmade wares and unique goods; refuel in the food village, race bumper cars, watch acrobats, join a parade.
    Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2018
  • The report added that the female acrobat had been married to her husband for more than a decade and left behind two children.
    Nectar Gan, CNN, 18 Apr. 2023
  • There was an aerial acrobat and someone walking around with a snake.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2022
  • The acrobat and warrior fragments also contained sand temper, which means the sculptors switched up the recipe at one point.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022
  • In 1992, low rollers fed cups of change into slot machines while acrobats swung overhead.
    Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 26 May 2017
  • But so do acrobats, stunt men, event planners — and plenty of models.
    Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Now, the venue will be filled with artists, dancers, acrobats and surprise performers to celebrate the end of this year’s Olympics and look ahead to the Los Angeles Games in 2028.
    NBC News, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The most striking example is the horse Silver Star, brought to life by the acrobat Antoine Boissereau.
    Elisabeth Vincentelli, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
  • This wooden swing set also comes with an 8-foot wave slide, an acrobat bar, and two belt swings, so there is plenty for your children to do.
    Erica Reagle, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Dancers, acrobats, and even musicians punctuated the event, which has already been called by some the show of the season.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartzy, 28 Sep. 2019

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