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How to use choreography in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun

Choreography means the art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a work, such as a ballet. Example: “She has staged many successful ballets, so her choreography skills must be excellent.”

Examples of choreography by meaning

nounThe art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a work, such as a ballet.

  • She has staged many successful ballets, so her choreography skills must be excellent.

nounThe art of creating and arranging any activities that involve social coordination or orchestration.

  • the delicate choreography of a marathon transplant operation involving several surgical suites

nounThe dance steps, sequences or styles peculiar to a work, group, performance or institution.

  • The show's singing and acting was excellent, but the choreography was dull and poorly-done.

nounThe representation of these movements by a series of symbols.

  • I've written down the choreography for y'all to take a look at.

nounThe notation used to construct this record.

  • Take a look at this, it's the choreography for our next show.

nounAn organised display by fans in the stadium, involving props such as flags, banners, musical instruments and...

  • This style of support is highly ritualistic and is typified by choreographies of flags, banners, pyrotechnics and chants that extol the virtues of their club.2015 February 10, Udo Merkel, Identity Discourses and Communities in International Events, Festivals and Spectacles, Springer, →ISBN, page...
  • For example, Inter ultras displayed an impressive choreography of the Madonnina, the statue of the Madonna that sits atop Milan's cathedral, bedecked in Inter colours.2024 June 18, Przemysław Nosal, Radosław Kossakowski, Wojciech Woźniak, Football, Fandom and Collective Memory: Global Perspectives, Taylor...
  • The robust practice of preserving stadium choreographies digitally has led to widespread accessibility, and in turn, vulnerability to commercialization and commodification.2025 April 23, Andrew C. Billings, Marie Hardin, Routledge Handbook of Sport and Social Media, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 2020

More sentences with choreography

  • That 'Swan Lake' choreography is poetry in motion, fitting the musical poetry of Tchaikovski's divine score well beyond the literary inspiration.From the entry poetry
  • Elo's choreography does not point them out on a first viewing.2007 October 29, Alastair Macaulay, “An Ephemeral Portrait of an Artist in a Hall of Mirrors”, in New York Times. From the entry rippling
  • Most of Dancer in the Dark ranges from mediocre (music and choreography) to laughably bad.2000 October 6, Liam Lacey, “Bad, but in a complicated way”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ont.: The Globe and Mail Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry high concept
  • In "Episode"—the opening dance—choreography, music, performances and underlying apparent themes looked like ships passing in the night.1998 October 26, Jennifer Dunning, “In Performance: Dance”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 Oct 2013. From the entry ships that pass in the night
  • Backed by a team of varsity-jacketed dancers, Chlöe proceeded to obliterate the VMAs stage with complicated choreography and flawless vocals.2021 September 12, Charu Sinha, “Chlöe Annihilates the MTV VMAs With ‘Have Mercy’ Performance”, in Vulture, New York, N.Y.: Vox Media…. From the entry varsity-jacketed
  • While some of the choreography was too obvious, there were stunning visual images throughout, such as Michelangelo (Paul A.1990 August 24, Effie Mihopoulos, “American Jazz Dance World Congress '90”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry jete
  • Ballet of hetaerae and houris, choreography by Italo Castaldi.1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers. From the entry hetaera
  • In contrast to this complicated choreography, the mode of food prehension in M. emys suggests less complex neuromotoric coordination between neck and jaw movements.2015, Nikolay Natchev et al., “Feeding behaviour in a ‘basal’ tortoise provides insights on the transitional feeding mode at the dawn of…. From the entry neuromotoric
  • So it appears that it's good to do tigerly things except when those tigerly "instincts" conflict with the choreography of a good show.1999, Jane Desmond, Staging Tourism. From the entry tigerly
  • From there she took on more hip hop, as well as locking, popping, house, voguing, waacking and commercial dance choreography in Los Angeles and New York City.2012, Lori Henry, Dancing Through History, page 90. From the entry waacking

Meaning of choreography

  1. noun The art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a work, such as a ballet.
  2. noun The art of creating and arranging sequences of movement for performances of any kind, such as in fight choreography.
  3. noun The art of creating and arranging any activities that involve social coordination or orchestration.

Full definition of choreography

Questions about choreography in a sentence

How do you use choreography in a sentence?
Choreography is used as a noun. For example: “She has staged many successful ballets, so her choreography skills must be excellent.”
What is a short sentence with choreography?
“Ballet of hetaerae and houris, choreography by Italo Castaldi.”
What does choreography mean?
Choreography means the art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a work, such as a ballet.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: choreography (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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