Example Sentences

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She burst on the scene as an odd-looking provocateur, dressed in an ice-skater skirt and combat boots.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2023

At various points duos emerge to perform balletic pas de deux, full of ice-skater swirls and arched overhead lifts, legs scissoring and splitting open in the air.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2022

So one day, with all my Black girl superhero-ness, I said to my parents, "I want to be a doctor and an ice-skater when I grow up!"

From Salon • Jun. 12, 2021

She was a soccer player, a gymnast and an ice-skater.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2015

Nevertheless, the force was sufficient to spin Butler like an ice-skater, landing him on his rump for the second time in as many minutes.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer