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- verb Present participle of
foxtrot .
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Examples
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When darkness fell, searchlight beams swept over dancing crowds, in serious holiday mood, jitterbugging, foxtrotting, in hats and long coats, to the sounds of a full orchestra in evening dress.
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Good morning and welcome to your Sunday Morning liveblog of the televised political charlie foxtrotting.
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One evocative scene depicts a 1919 New Year's Eve party held at a social club in Nairobi, complete with a turban-clad orchestra, chic foxtrotting couples, fingerbowl Champagne glasses, and fisticuffs between tuxedo-ed gentlemen.
Lesley M. M. Blume: 10 Glamorous, Old-World New Year's Entertaining Tips Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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One evocative scene depicts a 1919 New Year's Eve party held at a social club in Nairobi, complete with a turban-clad orchestra, chic foxtrotting couples, fingerbowl Champagne glasses, and fisticuffs between tuxedo-ed gentlemen.
Lesley M. M. Blume: 10 Glamorous, Old-World New Year's Entertaining Tips Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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One evocative scene depicts a 1919 New Year's Eve party held at a social club in Nairobi, complete with a turban-clad orchestra, chic foxtrotting couples, fingerbowl Champagne glasses, and fisticuffs between tuxedo-ed gentlemen.
Lesley M. M. Blume: 10 Glamorous, Old-World New Year's Entertaining Tips Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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Good morning and welcome to your Sunday Morning liveblog of the televised political charlie foxtrotting.
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One evocative scene depicts a 1919 New Year's Eve party held at a social club in Nairobi, complete with a turban-clad orchestra, chic foxtrotting couples, fingerbowl Champagne glasses, and fisticuffs between tuxedo-ed gentlemen.
Lesley M. M. Blume: 10 Glamorous, Old-World New Year's Entertaining Tips Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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His footwork was excellent, not a step out of place, even on those fast, intricate grapevines in the beginning, his partnering was strong, and he played the dashing foxtrotting gentleman perfectly the way he glided over that floor.
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Harriet watched the couples foxtrotting round the floor, holding each other as closely as lovers, in an aura of yearning which surely had something to do with the times as much as the people.
Presumption of Death Sayers, Dorothy L. 2002
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Maybe when you are foxtrotting with me, goldilocks, you'll remember how it seemed to have some other chap's arm around you.
Wild Wings A Romance of Youth Margaret Rebecca Piper
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