How to Use breakdance in a Sentence

breakdance

verb
  • How did someone end up so good at using crutches to breakdance or skateboard?
    Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Expect breakdancing DJs, club-ready mashups, and lots and lots of plaid.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Think breakdancing meets praise dancing, but with an aggressive, battle-rap edge to it.
    Dominick Williams, Kansas City Star, 26 Apr. 2026
  • One of his skills on floor stems from breakdancing, a sport that is making its Olympic debut in Paris.
    Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 30 July 2024
  • After joining her for a few seconds, Fallon tried his own hand at breakdancing on the floor.
    Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The store’s front lot was a breakdancing battleground where kids from the neighborhood would lay out tiles, turn on the boom box and show off their moves.
    Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • While breakdancing is now an Olympic sport, rapping won’t be at the Olympic Games in Paris.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 24 July 2024
  • Not just the addition of breaking (also known as breakdancing) as an official event.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 27 July 2024
  • And maybe some of those kids begged their parents to sign them up for a breakdancing class at the local recreation center or dancing academy.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 4 Sep. 2024
  • As of this year, breakdancing is officially an Olympic sport and the Netherlands dance team are set to make quite an entrance.
    Ivana Rihter, Vogue, 9 July 2024
  • That appeared to be the best choice since the other teams that tried to breakdance were struggling and the teams that did the puzzle ended up finishing in the top 3.
    Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Breaking, more commonly known as breakdancing, made its debut as an Olympic sport on Friday.
    Michaela Zee, Variety, 10 Aug. 2024
  • The dad trick that led Edra to breakdancing The story of Edra’s breaking career begins with her father.
    Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2024
  • This year, breakdancing is the only new sport added to the Olympic program, though new events such as kiteboarding and kayak cross also will be making their debut.
    Jessica Koscielniak, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
  • That made the timing perfect for breakdancing — breaking, as it was known in its Bronx basement days — to be showcased as an official Olympic sport.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2024
  • During one portion of the opening event, a crew of breakdancing mimes used massive Louis Vuitton trunks as part of their chaotic choreography.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2024
  • On Friday, the musician opened up the first breakdance battles at the Olympic Games by C-walking on the breakdancing stage.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2024
  • There’s breakdancing, graffiti, there’s DJ’ing and battling.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Born in New York City in the 1970s, breaking (aka breakdancing) is now an official Olympic sport.
    Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 25 July 2024
  • Raygun, whose full name is Rachael Gunn, was one of many dancers to compete in the debut of the breakdancing competition at the Paris Olympics.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Luo-Lang is both heavier and more acrobatic than Nanashi is, practically breakdancing and using gravity to chop at the ronin from above.
    Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Victor Montalvo wasn’t even born when breaking—also known as breakdancing—first emerged in the 1970’s on the streets of New York.
    Heather L. Whitley, Southern Living, 25 July 2024
  • For characters like Dee Jay, whose fighting style is built around breakdancing and fluid movement, actual dancers were contracted to do motion capture for the team to build from.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 June 2023
  • Thilly went viral last year after silently breakdancing at a Cranford Township Committee meeting.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 10 July 2026
  • Hip-hop is the purest art form that brings that melting pot of community together via (the MC), the DJ, graffiti, and breakdancing.
    Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2023
  • At a news conference on Tuesday, all of them expressed their pride at being able to represent the roots of the sport, also known as breakdancing, in its Summer Games debut.
    Madeleine Richards, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • On Sunday, dozens of hip-hop lovers competed in breakdancing and graffiti painting at this year’s Battle 4 The Eagle.
    Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2023
  • But after spending the last 15 years learning to breakdance, overcoming issues such as a lack of coaches, funding and formal training, Cheung is too invested in the sport to quit.
    Reuters, CNN, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Depth and breadth will do the trick; the United States should collect more than 60 medals from track and field and swimming combined and make the podium in everything from basketball to breakdancing.
    John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
  • Breaking, also known as breakdancing, originated in the late 1970sin the New York City borough of the Bronx.
    Amy Pope, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2024

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