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

"Well," he answered guardedly, with an eye to his friend Mrs. Anson, who was mightily amused, "I have waltzed."

From For the Cause by Weyman, Stanley J.