Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: prancing
IPA transcription: [pɹ'ænsɪŋ]
Usage examples
  • He ran off, howling in terror and wildly prancing around.
  • The horses of Marly, those neighing marbles, were prancing in a cloud of gold.
  • Yet he approached them with great diffidence and none of his late mincing and prancing.
  • There was one tall Norman Knight who rode before the Norman army on a prancing horse, throwing up his heavy sword and catching it, and singing of the bravery of his countrymen.
  • Directly he had finished speaking she came to him joyously, began fawning on him and prancing round him so that in spite of his vexation with her, and being cold, he could not help stroking her.
  • We can do this easily if the dogs don't get scent of us, as all the Blacks are prancing about and making a noise, having a kind of game in fact, and they are so amused that we ought to get past quite safely.