How to Use aerialist in a Sentence

aerialist

noun
  • The rest of the night was filled with a pogo-stick act, aerialists, singers, and more.
    Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 24 July 2024
  • Elsewhere in the video, Styles dodges knives, takes in the aerialists and juggles.
    Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 19 July 2023
  • In the movie, Efron plays the rich white kid who wants to rebel and so falls in love with the pink-haired black aerialist Zendaya.
    Armond White, National Review, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Her new feet wouldn’t flex, a key motion that helps aerialists brace themselves on the silks.
    Susie Armitage, SELF, 23 Jan. 2019
  • But know this, aerialists can (and will) compete amidst high winds.
    Nick Pachelli, Esquire, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Theater review And then came the aerialist who hangs by her hair.
    Misha Berson, The Seattle Times, 18 Sep. 2018
  • So in our act, the girl that goes into the illusions is an aerialist [Rachael Kean] and has the stage to herself for a few minutes.
    Shaun Brady, Philly.com, 19 June 2018
  • In the middle of the floor, a duo practiced tumbling through hoops while an aerialist twisted and flipped overhead.
    Shaun Brady, Philly.com, 23 May 2018
  • Well, the story goes in my family that there’s a great-great-something that was an aerialist in the circus.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2023
  • In 1983, an aerialist set out to cross the Mississippi River on a tightrope.
    NOLA.com, 17 May 2017
  • Also just like Edge, Apex includes the three-story venue called Eden at the aft of the ship that acts as lounge and avant-garde aerialist performance stage.
    Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Nov. 2021
  • World-class male aerialists can perform three backflips with four or five twists in a single jump.
    Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 5 Dec. 2017
  • Also just like Edge, Apex will include the three-story venue called Eden at the aft of the ship that acts as lounge and avant-garde aerialist performance stage.
    Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Philippe Petit, the French aerialist, was among the cathedral’s artists-in-residence.
    New York Times, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Features drag kings and queens, burlesque and belly dancers, aerialists, clowns, sideshow, magic and fire artists.
    Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Joshua Oates, who is known onstage as Pixel, performed at House of Yes for nearly four years as an aerialist drag queen.
    Julia Carmel, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The 14-year-old is an actress, an aerialist, a dancer and a model with a sublimely photogenic face.
    Marie Simoneaux, NOLA.com, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Nina Kane, a professional dancer and aerialist, grew up in this tourist mecca impressed by the glamour of the big shows.
    Katherine Sayre and Kim MacKrael, WSJ, 3 June 2020
  • Sophie Turner fans might already know that the Game of Thrones actress used to take circus skills classes, and was an aerialist.
    Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 May 2019
  • What's your dream career other than being a bad-ass aerialist?
    Hanna Howard, Teen Vogue, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Those events have given new medal hopes to athletes like four-time Olympic aerialist Ashley Caldwell.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Celeste is in training to be an acrobat aerialist at the Encole de Cirque in Quebec City.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Toward the end of the night, an aerialist was literally swinging from the chandeliers.
    Vogue, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Close to a Victorian era monument to a teenage girl who died in a carriage accident, an aerialist spun from a rope attached to the bun in her hair.
    New York Times, 23 Sep. 2021
  • These amazing acrobats, aerialists and clowns bring big-top thrills and spills to Chicago’s green spaces — one park per weekend through Oct. 20.
    Web Behrens, chicagotribune.com, 4 Sep. 2019
  • There are countless wigs, fabulous Bob Mackie costumes, dancers galore and aerialists adding a Cirque du Soleil sheen to the whole affair.
    Randy Cordova, azcentral, 24 Nov. 2019
  • And high above center ring the aerialists do impossible triple somersaults into the hands of the catcher.
    Garrison Keillor, The Denver Post, 27 Feb. 2017
  • Other changes include the grounding of the aerialist, who previously circled above the crowd.
    Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 11 May 2021
  • There are no animals, just jugglers and aerialists, acrobats and a goofy clown.
    Kristina Goetz, The Courier-Journal, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The artists include musicians, contortionists, aerialists and even kayakers.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 21 July 2024

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