waltz
noun
a ballroom dance, in moderately fast triple meter, in which the dancers revolve in perpetual circles, taking one step to each beat.
have waltzed
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present perfectof waltz.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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"Home was a happy place. Daddy taught me how to waltz by standing me on his feet, and we would have waltzed around the living room," she said.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
She could have waltzed her way down the pipe and enjoyed a coronation for becoming the youngest woman to ever win the event’s gold medal.
From Time ● Dec. 7, 2018
No one is suggesting that Richard Holbrooke could have waltzed in and fixed Afghanistan, but you could have had talks earlier, and you could have maybe saved some lives.
From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2018
“In any other season, John Tiffany’s luminous revival of ‘The Glass Menagerie’ would have waltzed off with a Tony, but this year belongs, I suspect, to the sublime ‘Twelfth Night.’
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2014
And I said 'Some day it will make itself heard; but by that time my atoms will have waltzed into a new pattern.'
From Tales of Men and Ghosts by Wharton, Edith
