pirouetting

• From the time I first saw her at her coming-out party, sweeping down the front staircase like Scarlett O'Hara, pinching her cheeks to make them pink, fluffing her skirts, pirouetting, her arms lifted like a ballet dancer taking a curtain call. —  EQMM, June 2005
• 'Less of the pirouetting, little man,' advised Butler, the first to get his mind back on the job. —  ARTEMIS FOWL is a child prodigy from Ireland who has dedicated his brilliant mind to criminal activities
• Standing your ground and duking it out is an exercise in frustration, making the best strategy a combination of running around, pirouetting, and kicking your enemies while they're down. —  GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features
• The motions, sometimes approaching the grotesque in the lean and elderly chorus-lady as she bobbed about the limited space, courtesying, twirling, pirouetting, her blonde hair done up in kids,--herself in the abbreviated toilet of pink calico sack and petticoat reserved for home hours, changed to unconscious grace and innocent abandon in the light, clean-limbed child, who learned with quickness akin to instinct, and who seemed to follow Norma's movements almost before they were completed It is wonderful--amazing!" —  The Angel of the Tenement
• Jumping, plunging, kicking, rearing, bounding, and pirouetting are all sufficiently expressive terms in their way, but they are mild words with which to describe the proceedings of that creature of the Pampas while under the influence of temporary insanity. —  The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America

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