Thesaurus results for PRANCE

prance

verb

ˈpran(t)s

Definition of prance next

as in to strut

to walk with exaggerated arm and leg movements pranced across the room dressed in an outrageous costume

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Recent Examples of prance And, to this day, they are meticulously trained from colts to perform spectacular feats of dressage, including some who can lift their front legs and seem to prance off the ground. —

Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 18 Feb. 2026 Here, the Multimatic True Active Spool Valve dampers (TASV) pranced and pranged over bumps, dips and cracks. —

Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026 What happened that fateful night changes the girls’ lives over the course of the summer, with the film touching upon sensitive issues of trauma and guilt as the two tensely prance around difficult conversations that forever alter their relationship. —

Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 15 Jan. 2026 Sometimes, his three-year-old sister would prance barefoot over the cool tile and hug him. —

Hazlitt, 7 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for prance

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Paris — At the Paris fashion shows that wrapped this week, there were luxuriously plain black dresses and coats of the kind favored by Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, models strutting down runways with theatrical flourishes, and in some cases, no cellphones in sight.

— Rachel Tashjian, CNN Money, 12 Mar. 2026
Make your way to our festival headquarters before the screenings begin, strutting through the French Quarter in style behind a demonic brass band, creepy characters both familiar and unknown, and you.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2026