Example Sentences

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Though the charts may disagree, Britain’s boy-next-door pop juggernaut is a more compelling balladeer than a guy dancingly professing his love for your body.

From Seattle Times • May 24, 2023

Cathy walked lightly, almost dancingly around the house and into the street.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

But even now most miserable old, I saw thee, and my blood no longer cold Gave mighty pulses: in this tottering case Grew a new heart, which at this moment plays As dancingly as thine.

From Endymion A Poetic Romance by Keats, John

Then she turned the head of the boat up the pool of the Black Watery Something white floated dancingly alongside, upborne for a moment on the boiling swirls of the rising water.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

These flames sought one another and when they found one another they blazed up convulsively into a larger flame, then fled dancingly away and shivered into pieces.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various