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How to use saraband in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word saraband? Here are some examples.

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This particular saraband, however, is unique in that it has three sections rather than the two usually found in all Baroque dance movements.
The scene is an endless saraband of characters who, with the advent of Night, appear uninhibited and cast off the conventions of Daylight!
And yet the slowness of the rhythm as well as the grandiloquence of the main theme rather evokes a saraband.
Triumphant over all evil tendencies, the bestial nature of young men, dexterously straddling all kinds of animals, and encircling, in a saucy saraband, naked and seductive women.
Sometimes the masters allowed them to borrow frock coats and top hats, which they took brilliant advantage of to caricaturize the lenders in a sort of saraband which evoked the drawing room dances of the period.
The theme is a saraband — a slow Baroque dance in triple time — and Sebők demonstrated how to get a magical lilt: you subtly elongate the second beat and shorten the third, in effect playing the third beat slightly late.
Time is moving too fast for the political world, and the markets are setting the tempo for this new type of saraband in which an ever-increasing number of participants are taking to the floor.
Examples from Classical Literature
Somber figures danced in a saraband of shadows to a yearning melody of Tschaikovsky.
On the contrary, I shall walk jocund and erect, with a laughing eye and a dancing leg, when you are long past laugh or saraband.
I wondered whether the Orissa's fife might not have had something to do with the saraband of the wild waves we encountered.
Anne bade him prove it by dressing as a circus clown and dancing a saraband for her.
They resemble in their field and in the firm texture the saraband rug, the palm-leaf design being arranged throughout the field.
Another extremely popular dance was the saraband, which, however, died out after the 17th century.
But I have read that M. le Cardinal de Richelieu danced a saraband.
A saraband lends itself to a serious and even solemn turn of thought.
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