How to Use ballroom dance in a Sentence

ballroom dance

noun
  • The duo reached the last leg of the ballroom dance competition, placing fourth overall and losing out to actress Xochitl Gomez and pro Val Chmerkovskiy.
    Brendan Le, Peoplemag, 1 May 2024
  • Ice dance, then, is more like a cousin of ballroom dance.
    Maura Sullivan Hill, Cosmopolitan, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Dance the night away at the city's biggest ballroom dance social event of the year.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2022
  • That night felt reassuring to the dancers, a clear sign that ballroom dance would go on.
    J. Lester Feder, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The friends gave Munro a gift certificate to take ballroom dance classes.
    Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 26 June 2021
  • But in the evenings, the shopper for online grocery service Shipt trades in her green T-shirt for a pair of ballroom dance shoes and heads to her next gig.
    Lorraine Mirabella, baltimoresun.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • People were still strolling through downtown when the noise echoed from a ballroom dance studio tucked into a strip mall.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2023
  • George’s father, Harold, was a school bus driver, while his mother, Louise, took care of the four children and taught ballroom dance lessons.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The act of hearing is like a ballroom dance, scientist Jaime García-Añoveros says.
    Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 9 May 2022
  • One of his goals is to shed light on the world of ballroom dance, especially all of the hard work and athleticism that go into it.
    Alexandra Wolfe, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
  • After all, good manners and a little ballroom dance know-how will always be in style.
    Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 9 Jan. 2024
  • After all, good manners and a little ballroom dance know-how will always be in style.
    Betsy Cribb, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2018
  • In January, a half-block away on Garvey, a gunman opened fire on a crowd in a ballroom dance studio.
    Jeong Park, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
  • His win at the British Championships in Blackpool in his late 20s cemented him as one of the top figures in ballroom dance.
    Vulture, 24 Apr. 2023
  • After school, their group of friends would go to clubs where Ming taught Judy how to ballroom dance — tango, foxtrot, samba.
    Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The remaining 20% will don unique styles like cowboy boots, ballroom dance shoes, or even go barefoot.
    Southern Living, 5 June 2018
  • Many of the owners had become enamored with ballroom dance while growing up in Asia.
    Corina Knoll Ben Laffin Mark Abramson, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Ten people were killed and at least 10 others were injured when a gunman opened fire at a ballroom dance studio….
    Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2023
  • The mass shooting killed 11 people and shattered what has been a sanctuary for some AAPI elders: a ballroom dance floor.
    Cecilia Lei, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Though lifts can take a ballroom dance routine to the next level, they aren't actually allowed in many dance styles.
    Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 23 Sep. 2020
  • He's seen ballroom dancing help couples work through rough patches.
    Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, 16 Dec. 2019
  • While not much is out about her professional life, the 2023 high school graduate has been ballroom dancing for years.
    Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The week might also have marked a breakthrough for the polarizing presence of Sean Spicer, who pulled off the closest thing to a ballroom dance yet in the competition.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2019
  • According to Carrie Ann, the show put the rule in place out of respect for proper ballroom dance competitions.
    Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The mass shooting took place inside a ballroom dance club a little before 10:30 Saturday night.
    CBS News, 22 Jan. 2023
  • His latest fascination: 1980s ballroom dance culture, the downtown scene and the rise of Trump in Pose, an eight-episode FX series due later this year.
    Gary Levin, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2018
  • The tragedy has dealt a devastating blow to the city’s vibrant ballroom dance community.
    Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Even among the many lively cultural worlds of Detroit, the city’s ballroom dancing scene is singular.
    Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Tchaikovsky turned Alexander Pushkin’s classic Russian novel into one of the world’s most beloved operas filled with arias and ballroom dance numbers.
    Dan Kelly, kansascity, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Bergeron, who hosted the ballroom dance competition series for 15 years, tried to stop it.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 24 Oct. 2023

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