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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pirouette .
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Examples
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With a nod, Annie pirouetted around in a rustle of taffeta and left the room.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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With a nod, Annie pirouetted around in a rustle of taffeta and left the room.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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With a nod, Annie pirouetted around in a rustle of taffeta and left the room.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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Taylor stutter-stepped to avoid a tackle, then pirouetted away from Marecic to keep the play alive, all while teetering dangerously close to the sideline.
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The Dutchman had his back to goal when he received a pass from Robert Pires but with a deft and exquisite touch of his left boot he flicked the ball around Nikos Dabizas, pirouetted and ran the other side, leaving the Newcastle defender completely disoriented before coolly beating Shay Given.
Guardian writers choose their favourite Premier League goal 2011
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Leaves pirouetted through a gap between buildings, brown-husk corpses driven by invisible wind.
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With a nod, Annie pirouetted around in a rustle of taffeta and left the room.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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Taylor stutter-stepped to avoid a tackle, then pirouetted away from Marecic to keep the play alive, all while teetering dangerously close to the sideline.
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Webber and the remains of his vehicle pirouetted in the sky before crashing back down to earth, overturning and sliding at high speed into a tyre barrier.
'I'm lucky to be in one piece,' admits Mark Webber after 190mph crash Paul Weaver in Valencia 2010
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When challenged by the racist right, Obama pirouetted to the right in true Clintonian fashion, boasting that his health care "reform" explicitly excludes undocumented immigrants, unlike the universal health care programs in place in most other economically advanced nations.
Andy Thayer: May Day Immigration March Offers Opportunity to Push Back Against Arizona 2010
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