How do you use the word "dance" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "dance": Would you like to dance with me? I cannot dance one single step of Salsa.

Dance Meaning

/dɑːns/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.

nounA social gathering where dancing is the main activity.

Sentence Examples

Would you like to dance with me?

I cannot dance one single step of Salsa.

I like any kind of pop or dance music.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

dancing

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

At the ballroom competition, each couple prepared a waltz ____.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Would you like to ____ with me?

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Vulgar Latin *dantiāreder. Anglo-Norman dauncerbor. Middle English dauncen English dance From Middle English dauncen, from Anglo-Norman dauncer, from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre, of uncertain origin. Displaced Old English sealtian, and partially displaced Old English hlēapan (“to leap, dance, run”) (whence modern leap). Doublet of danza.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

""I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places.[…]"" — 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

"But, he continued, "the experience of the Peking Municipal Communist Youth League shows that, as long as dance parties are organized and supervised well by the work units concerned and these units organize their own sentries, as long as the people attending these dances are given a little coaching in advance on what is meant by normal socializing and recreation, and as long as these dances are organized, led and guided properly, there will be no incidents."" — 1985 April 29, Daniel Southerl, quoting Deng Liqun, “Saturday Night Fever in Peking”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2023:

"They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups." — 1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 9:

"He that would watch the king's hares must not drag himself along as if he was a lazybones with soles of lead to his boots, or like a fly on a tar-brush, for when the hares began to scamper about on the hill-sides it was quite another dance than lying at home and catching fleas with mittens on." — 1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 170:

"It was seen that the readiness to dance and intensity of the dance are clearly increased when the temperature in the hive remained between 28-36° C." — 1961 November, W. Wittekindt, “An Understanding of Dancing Behaviour”, in G. H. Cale, editor, The American Bee Journal, volume 101, number 11, Hamilton, page 434:

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