jeté
Americannoun
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jetés
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of jeté
1820–30; < French: literally, thrown, past participle of jeter to throw; see jet 1
Example Sentences
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A video clip featured in the “Addictive Ballet” episode shows New York City Ballet principal dancer Ashley Bouder launching herself into a jeté so high she seems to leave Earth’s gravity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
At Pacific Northwest Ballet on Friday night, the evening began with 11-year-old PNB School student Charlotte Smith, whose beaming smile and effortless grand jeté in the ballet’s opening solo moment spoke to a bright future.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
The powerful boosters made by Musk’s company SpaceX can propel humans and cargo into orbit and then, instead of tumbling chaotically to earth, land gracefully upright like a ballerina completing a jeté.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2022
I watched my host mother do this effortlessly, like Anna Pavlova performing a grande jeté.
From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2020
He practised for a year or so, and then—"il a jeté la toque et la robe aux orties."
From Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck by Jethro Bithell
They form an orchestra of bodies, leaping into grand jetés, fanning their arms with feeling, partnering one another in dips and spinning in overhead press lifts.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
But her career in offices has taken leaps as stunning as her jetés onstage.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 25, 2023
Set to Jennifer Hudson’s rendition of the song “Memory,” the trailer features Hayward’s flawless jetés, pirouettes and long extensions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2019
The narration can be slightly too clever for whatever character’s point of view is supposed to be controlling it, and from time to time the dialogue performs sudden jetés into overarticulateness.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 14, 2016
I expected us to immediately move on to greater things, like arabesques, grands jetés, and pirouettes, but we couldn’t.
From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince
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