How to Use quickstep in a Sentence
quickstep
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Baldwin’s quickstep to the cantina song from Star Wars was out of this world!
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025
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Derek then assigned the quickstep to Robert and Witney.
—Emily Longeretta, Variety, 26 Nov. 2025
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Poor Bersten had his work cut out for him this week, having to choreograph a killer quickstep to the theme song from ….
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025
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Hey, that's Len Goodman explaining how to dance the quickstep!
—Lynette Rice, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2020
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Singer Debbie Gibson had more confidence and style on her quickstep.
—Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Sep. 2017
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Gaining on last week's score by a full three points, the '80s singer exuded a newfound confidence with her quickstep.
—Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 25 Sep. 2017
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The score came for Whitney Leavitt and Mark Ballas’ quickstep.
—Emily Longeretta, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
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Other than the quickstep, samba is definitely one of the hardest dances to learn in 1 week during the season.
—Jenna Johnson, PEOPLE.com, 15 Oct. 2019
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Elaine and Alan’s scores revealed Elaine and Alan received a 24/30 for their quickstep.
—Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
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Then Muniz performed a delightful quickstep, and Inaba praised the dance’s joy.
—Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 9 Oct. 2017
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Carrie Ann thinks Jesse’s intensity and enthusiasm caused the refinement of the quickstep to get away from him a little bit.
—Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2020
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Haslet, 35, was a professional ballroom dancer who received a prosthetic blade to do the quickstep and the jive, and only then decided to take up running.
—The Associated Press, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2016
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This song evolves in chunks, beginning as quickstep indie-pop, then shifting to pop-soul, then unfurling into dance floor bliss and finally opening up for a kind of post-genre ecstasy.
—Jon Pareles, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2020
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The gymnast’s quickstep to a spirited tune from The Princess and the Frog had the judges raving about her natural ballroom ability.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025
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Pic by @jilliangoulding Slater, who was teaching Van Der Beek a quickstep for this week of the competition, said their dance was perfectly timed to the exciting announcement.
—Laura Hanrahan, Woman's Day, 8 Oct. 2019
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The videos that initially skyrocketed her to MomTok fame were of her and her kids having dance parties on her kitchen countertop—a motif that popped up in her and her pro partner Jan Ravnik’s episode 2 quickstep.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 30 Sep. 2025
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As a contestant on season 34 of Dancing With the Stars, Baldwin sparked a heated argument between the judges with her quickstep with pro partner Gleb Savchenko.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Oct. 2025
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Bergeron tells Richter that the late Len Goodman would’ve loved the dance, which is high praise considering Goodman once told Bergeron his own quickstep was better suited for America’s Funniest Home Videos.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 11 Nov. 2025
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