pirouetting

"Thank you," I said, pirouetting so they could see the magnificence they had created.

The clock on the mantelpiece joined the pirouetting.

And it's hard to resist a cowboy carrying on, amid pirouetting ballet dancers, about "the cat in the barn with a rat in her mouth."

He kept thinking of her pirouetting, her small face impish, then her eyes filling at the memory of her lost doll.

But this will not happen with micropolitical and opportunist sophistry or with endless pirouetting, which favour neither the Union nor Turkey.

He tells anecdotes laced with anguish as well as a pirouetting, impish wit, punctuated with well-timed shrugs.

'We-ell whoops a daisy, how you drove me crazy,' sang Nick, pirouetting and waving the bottles in the air, 'but I guess it doesn't matter anymore.'

To quote one newspaper report: "His pirouetting, Charlie Chaplin swagger and complete control of the ball.... left us longing to see ten of his kind."

M. C. Hammer-style pirouetting has been spotted on the streets in the state of Bahia; baseball caps are suddenly being worn backward, and the word rap has joined the Portuguese vocabulary.