Example Sentences

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Here's a player who had the body and the ability, but he was a fancy dancer and prancer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why is a fancy dancer like an old-fashioned country woman?

From The Handbook of Conundrums by Ordway, Edith B.

And then that fancy dancer, Miss Grace Somerset, comes in, and dern my skin, ef the old man didn't get to trembling and fidgeting all over, as she cut them pidgin wings.

From Drift from Two Shores by Harte, Bret

"Except myself, it's up to you to be the best fancy dancer in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the colonial possessions of all three."

From Rolling Stones by Henry, O.