How to Use choreograph in a Sentence

choreograph

verb
  • She was hired to choreograph the ballet routines.
  • And my besties, Jen Stith and Alex Kaye, who choreographs my show.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Trisha Brown choreographed dances on the rooftops and facades of cast-iron buildings.
    Zoë Lescaze, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The action is intense and the fight scenes are choreographed to perfection.
    Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Would that all action films were so well and cleanly choreographed.
    Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The show features a fleet of 300 drones choreographed to create formations and patterns in the night sky.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2023
  • In 2009, Portman signed on for a starring role in Black Swan, while Millepied was hired to choreograph the film.
    Alex Gurley, PEOPLE.com, 7 July 2022
  • As an instructor, the 27-year-old could choreograph and teach the short routines that players do on the field.
    David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2022
  • Show lasts about 20 minutes and is choreographed to music.
    Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 30 June 2023
  • The whole show felt choreographed to overwhelm even its star, and when Lana left the stage for the final time, she was carried off, swaddled in a white sheet.
    Pitchfork, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Coach Mike McDaniel arrived with the ability to choreograph a run game to set up the pass game.
    Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2022
  • What about when a teacher and their students choreograph a dance to a popular song on the app?
    WIRED, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The dance was choreographed by married duo and current pros Val Chmerkovskiy and Jenna Johnson.
    Emily Longeretta, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
  • While speaking to reports, Hough pledged to bring Blair back to the season finale and choreograph a number for the two of them.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2022
  • That leads to the aforementioned striptease and a business deal: Mike will choreograph Max’s show.
    Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • This time, Salma Hayek co-stars as a wealthy socialite who offers him the chance to headline and choreograph a dance show in London.
    Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 7 Jan. 2023
  • The couple first met in 2009 after Portman signed on for a starring role in Black Swan, while Millepied was hired to choreograph the film.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 2 June 2023
  • The video features smooth and sharp movement choreographed by Kyle Abraham that finds Halle in a silo of swiftly moving arms that ebb and flow with the lyrics.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The Bengals plot out camp to peak for the season opener, then choreograph each practice week to be ready for the ensuing game.
    Mike Bass, The Enquirer, 30 July 2021
  • The word cotillion was first used in 18th-century France and England to describe a dance choreographed for four couples at a ball.
    Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Joshua Bergasse, who choreographed the TV series, will return for the stage adaptation.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Mike Nichols directed, and Casey Nicholaw choreographed.
    Sopan Deb, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2023
  • John Rando will direct, while Ellenore Scott will choreograph the show, per the Times.
    Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE.com, 10 Nov. 2021
  • More recently, a stomp and shake routine choreographed to the very beginning of the song has taken TikTok by storm.
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The contest, like ones past, will be highly choreographed, and its outcome is preordained.
    Mikhail Zygar, Foreign Affairs, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Back in 2009, the couple connected when Millepied was recruited to choreograph the film and train Portman in the art of ballet.
    Alex Gurley, PEOPLE.com, 7 July 2022
  • Gerard was in a musical and dance show choreographed by Faison that toured Europe.
    Matt Kempner, ajc, 22 June 2023
  • Students were in charge of planning and marketing as well as choreographing the show and designing the set.
    Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 11 Jan. 2024
  • All of this is fun and energetic, and the action is extremely well choreographed, shot, and edited.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Cordileone directed and choreographed the action, which moves with speed and energy all over the theater space.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2023

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