Example sentences for: pirouettes

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

  • After an epic exchange of personal pirouettes she delivered the knockout punch with the following:

  • But when she's on, Byatt's writing "leaps and pirouettes, shimmies and shivers" (Gabriella Stern, the Wall Street Journal ) and has an "aura of extravagant ingenuity" (David Barber, the Boston Globe ). A few find the tales a bit too similar--there is a theme throughout of the conflict between the warm southern temperament and the cold northern one--but most deem the sameness unimportant when the writing is so superb.

  • After an epic exchange of personal pirouettes she delivered the knockout punch with the following: I told her to her face, [an aberrant piece of straighttalking, this] Don't you turn round to me and tell me I turned round and accused you of being two-faced.


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