dance floor

noun

: an area where people can dance inside a restaurant, club, hall, etc.

Examples of dance floor in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web With a halter neckline and princess-seamed bodice, it's made for twirling on the dance floor. Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2024 During that span of time, the world was upended by a global pandemic and social strife; Martin Scorsese grappled with the blood on the hands of American history with Killers of the Flower Moon; and Beyoncé brought diamonds and disco to the dance floor on Renaissance. Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2024 There are more creatures this time, and a lot more mayhem — more dismemberings and decapitations and face gougings, especially during the climactic rave sequence, which lays waste to everyone on the dance floor. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024 Kurtis Blow, Run DMC, LL Cool J, Queen Latifah and Will Smith were releasing party songs that still get people to the dance floor. Amy Dubois Barnett, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024 Kalista Kassidy Caufield, 21, took to the dance floor with her dad, Doug Miller, 54, at her October 2023 wedding reception, and began their number with an instrumental slow dance. Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2024 By the dance floor, Christopher Nolan and his entourage sit at a zebra-print booth, with three Oscars propped on their table. Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024 Held as typical at the West Hollywood Park, stars and industry insiders gathered first for cocktails, either in the bar area which would later become a dance floor, lit with miniature disco balls, or in an indoor-outdoor lounge station, where a Don Julio bar sat in the center of the room. David Graver, Vogue, 11 Mar. 2024 Her first big ballad has hung on to its standing as her best big ballad, a soaring emotional prom theme for the ages that somehow breathes new life into a premise as cliched as spying someone hot across a crowded dance floor and moving in for the kill. Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2024

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“Dance floor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dance%20floor. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.

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