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How to use maypole in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, verb

Maypole means a pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day. Example: “How would you like the maypole decorated?”

Examples of maypole by meaning

nounA pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day.

  • How would you like the maypole decorated?
  • The maypole, the focal point of many traditional spring games and festivities, is believed to be a relic of ancient phallic worship.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 149
  • The seemingly innocent Maypole is a relic of witchcraft.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 93

nounA maypole-like structure of sticks placed about a sapling in the bowers of certain species of bowerbird.

  • The male Golden Bowerbird is a beautiful bird that builds one of the greatest structures in the natural world, a maypole up to three metres tall constructed of sticks and festooned with decorative clusters of flowers and lichens.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 212

verbTo dance or spin in a circle around something.

  • Kristina quieted a little, and maypoled around me.2010, Julie Clark, Asperger's in Pink, page 223
  • The line jerked and maypoled itself around the rod.2011, Simon Brett, Cast in Order of Disappearance

More sentences with maypole

  • On May Day, the villagers used to dance around a maypole on the village green.From the entry village green
  • Only Grump managed to bawl a frantic order to Herman. ‘Let us go, you mad maypole!1986, Derek Sampson, Grump Goes Galumphing, London: Methuen Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 65. From the entry let us go
  • Four basics, four whisks, three samba walks, one side-samba walk, then two botafogos, four voltas and a maypole.2010, Christine Darcas, Spinning Out, page 318. From the entry botafogo
  • At Ickwell Green, in Bedfordshire, there is a permanent maypole.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 263. From the entry besom
  • The Lord-Protector at the vanguard tipped back his helm and nodded gallantly, and ladies threw scarves and favors until his horse was festooned like a maypole.2002, Jim Bishop, “Goblin King”, in Jess Lebow, editor, The Secrets of Magic, Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN, page 104. From the entry warmaster

Meaning of maypole

  1. noun A pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day.
  2. noun A very tall girl or young lady.
  3. noun A maypole-like structure of sticks placed about a sapling in the bowers of certain species of bowerbird.

Full definition of maypole

Questions about maypole in a sentence

How do you use maypole in a sentence?
Maypole is used as a noun and verb. For example: “How would you like the maypole decorated?”
What is a short sentence with maypole?
“How would you like the maypole decorated?”
What does maypole mean?
Maypole means a pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day.

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