How to Use pas de deux in a Sentence

pas de deux

noun

• Your lead singer does an Astaire-and-Rogers pas de deux with a lamp.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2023
• Control of your smiling face as your feet scream in your pointe shoes at the end of a long pas de deux.
  — Chloe Angyal, Marie Claire, 22 Apr. 2021
• In this pas de deux, the female dancer wears only a leotard.
  — Helena Alonso Paisley, miamiherald, 5 Mar. 2018
• The dream ends with the garden’s King and Queen performing a pas de deux in the visitors’ honor.
  — Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 11 Dec. 2022
• During the last act of each film, the final girl and Jason lock into a grisly pas de deux.
  — Grant Sutton, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022
• Fashion and the ballet have danced an elegant pas de deux for decades.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2018
• Winter sashays into summer, while spring and fall pas de deux.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 21 May 2019
• At a performance with Veyette a week before her farewell, in the pas de deux, the two kept seeking each other out with their eyes.
  — Marina Harss, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
• The pas de deux between Prince Siegfried and his beloved Odette brought me back into my own chest as my daughter’s rose and fell beside me.
  — Maura Brannigan, Vogue, 25 July 2023
• Mitchell’s partner for one of the pas de deux was a white ballerina, Diana Adams.
  — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
• Leading up to the ballet’s grand pas de deux, Kitri and Basilio, a poor barber who is Kitri’s one true love, marry when Basilio fakes his death.
  — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 19 May 2018
• At the beginning of our pas de deux, five years ago, Sondheim would receive me in his East Forties town house.
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2022
• Their spooky pas de deux takes place within a web of personal intrigue.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
• Doors and trunk lids swing open in rhythm, setting up a pas de deux between drivers and their passengers.
  — Melissa Yeager, azcentral, 16 Dec. 2019
• The loveliest moments came in the second movement, where the violin has its sweet-sad pas de deux with flute, and then clarinet.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• The flaying and dismembering of a deer, a task shared by two hunters, unfolds as a vigorous pas de deux.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022
• In the second movement, a gorgeous, somber pas de deux pulls the focus inward, like sheltering in place.
  — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2021
• Partnering work — or pas de deux in ballet — has always been my anchor in dance.
  — Nina Garin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2021
• Inoue and Akana’s pas de deux stuck out in the piece with complex and expansive movements, including turns and lifts.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• Rodolfo and Mimi's Act One pas de deux of falling in love is a breathtaking encounter.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2017
• Robichaux also brought passion to the final pas de deux, with Andre Gallon as her prince.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Oct. 2020
• The ballet’s high point comes in the third act, with simultaneous pas de deux outside Musetta’s cafe.
  — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• Its central pas de deux, created for Arthur Mitchell and Diana Adams, was intended for a black man and a white woman.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
• Soloist India Bradley recalls working on a pas de deux in Partita.
  — Vulture, 19 Jan. 2023
• Betty Buckley has a somewhat more cheerful conclusion to draw from this strange pas de deux.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• The failure of the Democratic ticket to acknowledge this unseemly pas de deux led to its defeat in 2016.
  — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2019
• The story of Cain’s murder of his brother Abel comes later in a brutally muscular pas de deux.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2021
• The second pas de deux occurs in Juliet’s bedroom, after the secret wedding.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2023
• The pas de deux has a diamond-like prism effect, a lot of separating and coming back together.
  — Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
• Josie and Jim's date in the moonlight is an awkward but intense pas de deux of sweet romantic moments and clumsy emotional stumbles.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024