What is "pranced"

Usage examples of "pranced".

Elizabeth rose to her feet and pranced out of the library towards the kitchen.

The stallion pranced easily, then reared a little when Henry tightened the cinch.

But the stallion only pranced around him, his nostrils quivering and his eyes looking for Napoleon.

His horse absorbed John’s emotions and pranced, wild-eyed, ready to bolt.

She pranced sideways as she descended the steps to the courtyard, full of her cleverness and her need to attract a mate.

He pranced in place under me until I soothed him with my voice and a hand on the arching crest of his neck.

Roznine's attention was held by a wiry little man in sloppy tweeds of ancient manufacture who pranced conspicuously down the aisle to a seat reserved for him by the prosecution's table.

Cricket, picking up on the dragonets’ urgent fears, pranced tensely in place in the piaffe he had been taught, but it was clear that he would break into a mad gallop the minute Sean gave him his head.

The water was not quite to King’s knees as the big horse pranced across, all too eager to make a show of his stallion self.

For years this schizoid beast pranced around the goat peri eagerly mounting any female in sight while at the same time it was being mounted by the billys.

Later that same afternoon there was a' pifiata for the few little kids--some grandchildren, a pocketful of great-grandchildren--who had come, and, blindfolded, they pranced in circles swinging a wooden bat until the papier-mache donkey burst, and everyone cheered and clapped as the youngsters trampled each other scrambling for the glittering goodies.

Later that same afternoon there was a pinata for the few little kids--some grandchildren, a pocketful of great-grandchildren--who had come, and, blindfolded, they pranced in circles swinging a wooden bat until the papier-mache donkey burst, and everyone cheered and clapped as the youngsters trampled each other scrambling for the glittering goodies.

Wrapped hi gaudy holiday paper he twirled giddily at the end of a silver thread, while all the women he had ever humped on the so-called sly, jaybird naked and glistening like the butterplump, self-basting turkeys you could buy in the Safeway, pranced underneath him, blindfolded and wielding wooden bats with which they struck the pinata Bernabe.

Some actually pranced savagely onto the road, raising an unbelievably raucous stink.

Things were wont to travel along these hidden canals and pathways, and other things lived above: small birds, squirrels, and creatures that pranced upon the hedgetops.