Example sentences for: waltz

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

  • After the failures of the early '80s, he picked himself up and made some more movies: the quirky, proto-Indie downtown comedy After Hours , The Color of Money (a respectable sequel to The Hustler ), and his long dreamed of The Last Temptation of Christ . His fortunes revived with GoodFellas , which was hailed as a return to form, and floundered again with The Age of Innocence , one of his periodic attempts--like The Last Waltz , Temptation and, most recently, Kundun --to defy expectation.

  • Idealistic conservatives such as Reagan despised Kissinger's accommodationist policies during the '70s: The U.S.S.R. was an evil empire, not simply a dance partner in the great geopolitical waltz.

  • ," a pop adaptation of the waltz that was a hit in the '50s for Della Reese [LINK TO AUDIO CLIP]and which contains one of the laziest filler couplets in lyric-writing history:

  • In the first, Oskar, sheltered under a rostrum at a Nazi rally, disrupts the proceedings by pounding out the three-quarters-time beat of a waltz and confusing the marching band, so that everyone waltzes off.

  • As the waltz echoes alarmingly through Rent 's finale, you're reminded of a basic fact: Music is music.


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