How to Use pointe in a Sentence

pointe

noun

• Among the things that rocked with it were ballerinas on pointe.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
• What’s fashion’s answer to to the pointe shoe?
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 5 Aug. 2025
• Delk lifts her heels to go en pointe while the instructor snaps to the rhythm.
  — Dallas News, 26 Oct. 2022
• New this season was a block shape inspired by a ballet pointe.
  — Alex Wynne, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• Houk goes to her heels, walking normally with her pointe shoes still on.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• Thus, Copeland is fighting for more skin tones in the pointe shoe emojis.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 10 Oct. 2023
• That's a solo ballet that puts the dancer on pointe for almost three minutes.
  — Steve Hartman, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2019
• The sheen and square-toe box make these reminiscent of ballet pointe shoes.
  — Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2026
• The teen dramedy is filmed in Paris, so the scenery and dancing are on pointe.
  — Jennifer McClellan, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2020
• Trained in ballet, Trumbo has choreographed both en pointe and flat.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
• Going up on pointe like a dancer and then leaving her stage behind, out into the dark.
  — Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
• There’s one armchair, one armoire, one pair of ballet pointe shoes, and 37 desk lamps.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 22 Aug. 2025
• In fact, the pointe shoe grew out of the neoclassical design of straight slippers.
  — Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 1 May 2018
• Lovette and Inoue fell into deep plies on pointe, inching across the stage like spiders.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• The joke is not just his costume (long tutu and pointe shoes) but the angle of his shoulders and the height of his arabesque.
  — Alice Robb, The New Republic, 16 Oct. 2023
• For someone that’s used to wearing pointe shoes all day, the highest stilettos have nothing on this glam girl.
  — Tara Bradley Connell, Orlando Signature, 24 Aug. 2017
• Opera singer Lisette Oropesa is having some trouble with the laces on her pale pink pointe shoes.
  — Catherine Womack, latimes.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Today’s pointe shoes are constructed around a box cushioning the toes.
  — Madison Mainwaring, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
• Grosgrain edging and visible seams draw from ballet pointe shoes.
  — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• Delgado took up a needle and thread and a pair of pink silk pointe shoes and started deftly sewing an elastic band.
  — Sasha Weiss, New York Times, 10 May 2018
• Trixie plays a dance teacher instructing four students in pointe technique at the barre.
  — Caroline Lillian Schopp, Artforum, 13 May 2026
• Some include pointe, square and rounded shapes to perfectly complement a pant leg.
  — Good Housekeeping, 29 Mar. 2023
• Set to the jazzy, swing music of Duke Ellington, this was a piece that required the use of pointe and tap shoes.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2018
• Ron Yarbrough's tartan pants were en pointe, while others used black as a backdrop for brocade, charm bracelets, sparkle and more.
  — Sue Strachan, NOLA.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• Before her entrance, Teuscher will head to the bathroom backstage and bang her brand-new pointe shoes against the wall.
  — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2020
• There are grosgrain details and side seam details that are borrowed from classic balletic pointe shoes.
  — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• The design also preventing toe injuries while dancing on pointe.
  — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• To successfully break the record, the group will need to have more than 245 people rise up en pointe at once for a full minute.
  — Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• The men are bare-chested throughout, wearing only tiny shorts and soft shoes, the women in leotards that look like bathing suits, and pointe shoes.
  — Iris Fanger, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
• Also, unusual for BalletX, the women danced en pointe in all three pieces.
  — Ellen Dunkel, Philly.com, 12 July 2018