dancing girl
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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By the age of 9, the now-25-year-old burst into the spotlight when she appeared as the pig-tailed dancing girl in Missy Elliot’s music video for “Work It.”
From Fox News • Feb. 13, 2019
At least Victoria Mack efficiently sketches the dancing girl Muriel O’Neill, then the wide-eyed ingénue Miss Clarabelle Cobb; John Plumpis also brings just the right amount of urbane menace to the well-heeled racketeer Heine Schmitz.
From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2018
A dancing girl in the midst of an arabesque bears the caption “Light Of The Lit Wick.”
From The New Yorker • Jun. 12, 2017
The burden of his friends and family make life a daily grind for the 19-year-old until he meets a dancing girl of his dreams.
From Washington Times • Jun. 9, 2017
There was a dancing girl in the marketplace.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
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