How to Use prance in a Sentence

prance

1 of 2 verb
Definition of prancenext
Synonyms for prancenext
  • The little boy pranced across the room in his cowboy costume.
  • The children prance like ponies in and out of warm, salt sea.
    — Patricia Spears Bigelow, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Because who doesn’t want to prance through the woods and feel like a woman fairy?
    — New York Times, 30 July 2021
  • Tipping your hat to the women who pranced down the aisle before you?
    — Southern Living, 28 Nov. 2017
  • A shaggy brown pup prances about the dog park past the right field line, enclosed by a chain-link fence.
    — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 6 July 2017
  • First came Nikki, a 1-year-old boxer-Shar-Pei mix, who pranced in the room.
    — Marie Fazio, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Women pranced, stretched, bowed, rolled in the grass, ate churros, kissed with tongue.
    — Lena Dunham, Glamour, 5 July 2017
  • The shop dog, Paris, a silver toy poodle, prances around like a wind-up Steiff toy.
    — Catherine Blinder, courant.com, 10 July 2019
  • Robin Williams, clad in a dowdy dress, prancing around with a British accent.
    — Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 13 June 2019
  • The pair continue to prance throughout the show as a sort of Greek chorus.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 6 June 2017
  • Time and again, retread White coaches fail in one city and simply prance across to the next.
    — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Griffin pranced on stage wearing black jeans and a black T-shirt.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
  • Once the staff rolled up two sides of the fence, the animals pranced off, bobbing up and down through the desert flora.
    — Alex Devoid, azcentral, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Woodley is prancing around in the ocean to Sufjan Stevens.
    — Vogue, 6 June 2019
  • Under dark blue lights, Khalid pranced around the stage with the spotlight beaming down on him.
    — Nerisha Penrose, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Children will leap and prance their way through the world of Molly Idle’s Flora and the Flamingo.
    — courant.com, 24 Nov. 2021
  • But a scruffy black-haired dog named Holly pranced through the snow with a coat cinched around her torso and a pink ball in her mouth.
    — New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
  • And Brand will preen and prance and shake his bells, proclaiming the void within him, which is the void within us all.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 10 June 2018
  • Who wouldn’t want to prance around à la Carrie Bradshaw in a pair of kitten heel mules?
    — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 29 June 2021
  • From this long distance, the horse is a tiny white figure prancing timelessly across the brow of the hill.
    — Emily Cleaver, Smithsonian, 6 July 2017
  • From this long distance, the horse is a tiny white figure prancing timelessly across the brow of the hill.
    — Emily Cleaver, Smithsonian, 6 July 2017
  • Even when that reminder comes in the form of a silly, prancing poodle.
    — Nora Princiotti, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • All dinosaurs once pranced, strolled or lumbered about on two legs.
    — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 1 June 2015
  • We’re left now with the memories and recordings, of the phrase Durbin’s son used to prance around the house screaming on repeat.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Aug. 2021
  • First, and much to my delight, my wife and I watched as a spotted fawn pranced around the backyard of our new home in Blount County.
    — Michael C. Bolton, al, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Lizzo plays as the islanders prance about in shiny red outfits and devil horns.
    — Charlotte Walsh, Vulture, 3 July 2021
  • This free affair features the lovely Tulip Fairy, who little ones dressed as fairies and elves prance around.
    — Laura Daily and Bryan K. Chavez, The Denver Post, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Billy’s sister has had more success in her attempts to prance like a horse.
    — Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2021
  • On a terrace flanked by cypress trees, there’s a sculpture of a prancing horse, while a vine-laden pergola shades an alfresco dining space.
    — Mark David, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Jubilant people pranced and danced atop the Berlin Wall, a sight unthinkable only hours earlier...
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
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prance

2 of 2 noun
  • The most popular horses prance on the outside of the four rows.
    — Michael Tortorello, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
  • There’s simply no greater joy than watching a dog prance and splash in open water for the first time.
    — Todd Stewart, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Researcher has come to suspect that the urge to prance may be unstoppable.
    — Jack Handey, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Rahm made his ball prance lightly across the pond, as if it had been tossed by Opie Taylor hisself.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The highlight is the dragon dance, when teenagers from the church prance around in elaborate costumes with eyes that light up.
    — Kathleen Purvis, charlotteobserver, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Taking our last wistful stroll along the Rue des Peres, Pierre’s tiny-dog prance seemed all the more confident.
    — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Horses prance to the thundering beats of banda sinaloense.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Then Remus coolly jumps out of the pool himself, and the two prance off together, wagging tails.
    — Allison Klein, Washington Post, 17 May 2018
  • In the two-minute video Dion dances and prances and strikes poses at the Ritz Paris while wearing mouth-watering couture creations.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 21 July 2017
  • And, of course, stripping down to your skivvies in front of 10 million people watching you prance around in towering heels on TV.
    — Jessica Pels, Marie Claire, 10 Nov. 2015
  • The pigs would occasional prance down onto the beach for a snack from visitors.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 7 Mar. 2017
  • The pigs would occasional prance down onto the beach for a snack from visitors.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 7 Mar. 2017
  • Lights prance to Christmas music from dusk to midnight daily.
    — Genny Howe, sacbee, 8 Dec. 2016
  • In both Trinidad and Brooklyn, revelers prance and dance through the streets, painting one another with mud and paint to the tune of steel-drum-band rhythm sections.
    — Gregory Scruggs, The Root, 2 Sep. 2017
  • But live, as the bounce and prance, pound and churn, as the rainbow confetti costumes come out, CHAI is magnificent.
    — Kevin Williams, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2019
  • Peg’s fingers prance and unsettle in Petrie’s memory; the lawyer’s style begins to crack.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Chorus girls prance with feather fans and glowing hula hoops.
    — Misha Berson, The Seattle Times, 12 May 2017
  • Inside, two poodles prance around the living room. Like Myers, the couple have spent much of their time at home during the pandemic.
    — Olivia Goldhill, STAT, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Please enjoy — because those folks in the background watching the robot prance around certainly are.
    — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 5 July 2018
  • He and his dancers-turned-reindeer prance around an empty warehouse in shimmering black leather jumpers with matching red leather gloves and stilettos.
    — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 2 Dec. 2020
  • The best collegiate players in the country preen and prance nightly before Major League scouts, and gems emerge from diamonds.
    — Bill Higgins, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2019
  • In the photo, Mrs. Trump uses what appears to be a special holiday Snapchat filter, as miniature reindeer prance around her head.
    — Emilia Petrarca, The Cut, 26 Dec. 2017
  • Held at different exercise studios, the classes teach yoga or Pilates while kittens run, prance, stalk and sit among the exercise mats.
    — Amy McRary, USA TODAY, 27 June 2017
  • Seeing the beloved creature of my childhood petrified mid-prance in perpetuity was crushing.
    — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 8 July 2019
  • Because life leaves them little else on which to stake their pride, in many scenes, men in Hallencourt—everyone from Eddy’s friends to his father—prance around naked, to reaffirm their manhood in the most biological sense.
    — Samuel Metz, New Republic, 8 June 2017
  • During the show, which is produced using state-of-the-art technology for arena theater, 25 Marvel superheroes and villains punch, prance and parkour their way through an epic journey created for fans of all ages.
    — Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Rodrigo’s fellow high-school nihilists prance about the gym (then a darkroom and a football field), on the verge of graduating into either academic indoctrination or Big Tech, Fake News social authority.
    — Armond White, National Review, 21 July 2021
  • The most popular horses prance on the outside of the four rows.
    — Michael Tortorello, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
  • There’s simply no greater joy than watching a dog prance and splash in open water for the first time.
    — Todd Stewart, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Researcher has come to suspect that the urge to prance may be unstoppable.
    — Jack Handey, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020

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