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How to pronounce prance in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms strut, swagger
Type of gait
Type Words
Synonyms cock, ruffle, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup
Type of walk
Derivation prancer
Type Words
Type of ride, sit
Type Words
Type of ride horseback
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Type of locomote, move, go, travel

Examples of prance

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Prance, Brian Lam, in adulation of this 4000 word pean to free Nokia cellphones.
From the techcrunch.com
Boys, you see me prance around the house singing Elvis songs and other nonsense.
From the halesowennews.co.uk
A crowd gathers to watch a handsome black horse prance to music on its hind legs.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Physically, she moved about the stage in the aggressive prance of Mick Jagger.
From the orlandosentinel.com
With her dance, it's like her opening number to prance into the walking ring.
From the kentucky.com
It was great because I could just prance in five minutes before I was due on.
From the web.orange.co.uk
I can quite honestly say in 17 years of practice, I have never seen a judge prance.
From the guardian.co.uk
Fancy pooches prance before judges who ponder the attributes of each animal.
From the al.com
At the Chesterfield dog park you see retrievers romp and Pomeranians prance.
From the stltoday.com
More examples
  • Strut: a proud stiff pompous gait
  • Tittup: to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"
  • Spring forward on the hind legs; "The young horse was prancing in the meadow"
  • Cause (a horse) to bound spring forward
  • Sir Ghillean Tolmie Prance FRS (born 13 July 1937) is a prominent British botanist and ecologist.
  • (prancing) that prances
  • (Prancing) Applied to a horse represented rearing.