dancerly
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Foster has sometimes been compared to Mary Tyler Moore for her pixieish charm and dancerly elegance.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2024
Why shouldn’t the men be more dancerly in their presentations?
From Washington Post • Aug. 2, 2021
The music is Satie’s dreamy Gnossienne No 1, the mood is understated, the choreography modest but it’s enough to savour Legasa’s dancerly bearing and faraway gaze.
From The Guardian • Nov. 6, 2020
His hands and feet are operated, in minutest detail, by a small, dancerly army in black suits, and his face moves via uncannily precise—and, I’ll admit, touching—animatronics.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 12, 2018
The other side of dancerly vanity is getting carried away in dance.
From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2012
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