Example sentences for: ballet

How can you use “ballet” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • My recent interest in ballet has opened my eyes to a newer style that I used to find unattractive and incomprehensible.

  • These used to look fine with fur-trimmed jackets, but they look quite different with mini-ball-dresses or virtual underwear, and they looked grotesque on tiny Oksana Baiul in her pink swan-queen outfit at Lillehammer, Norway, in 1994--the too-direct reference to traditional ballet suddenly made her skates look ungainly.

  • His clever Ballet Mécanique --an influential little non-narrative film he made in 1924 (MoMA has it on a continuous reel)--intercuts dancing pistons and kitchenware with blinking eyes and a mouth that opens and closes rhythmically.

  • Figure skaters and ballet dancers are the only ones who wear them, along with Miss America.

  • Nearby St. Lawrence Hall, once host to the freaks and darlings of Victorian vaudeville, has been beautifully restored to its original pink and green to provide a second home for the National Ballet.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast