Example Sentences

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The concert is a display of energy and nutty inventiveness, with Madonna costumed as everything from baton-twirler to folk dancer.

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2012

Where the one leaps high, the other stamps down, like the folk dancer he was as a teenager.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nikita himself genially traded stag jokes with French influentials, beamingly invited a handsome girl folk dancer to visit him in Moscow, and clutched to his bosom everything from lambs to schoolchildren.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among her first specimens, the Chicago-born folk dancer imported from the U.S. an innocuous reptile quartet consisting of an emerald-green tree boa, a king snake, an African ball python and a bull snake.

From Time Magazine Archive

I got it as an appreciation for the essay from my son, a former water-polo player who is now a marathon runner and a folk dancer.

From Baron Pál Podmaniczky and the Norwegian Bible by Ilona, Martinovitsné Kutas