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• He was bewildered by how the car was festooned with polka dots.From the entry festoon
• Regal sea goddesses have navy blue bodies inscribed with yellow lines and often polka dots.2022 April 12, Jack Israel, “Short but Beautiful Lives”, in world.dan.org. From the entry regal sea goddess
• The dance steps included the polka, waltz, mazurka, redowa (two-step), and minuet.1985, Betty Casey, Dance across Texas, unnumbered page. From the entry redowa
• The upper classes wear a sleeved polka jacket instead of the bodice.1911, “India”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, New York, N.Y.: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.. From the entry polka jacket
• He wore khakis slung so low that five inches of his underpants showed—dark blue boxers with big white polka dots.2011, Les Roberts, The Cleveland Creep: A Milan Jacovich Mystery, page 87. From the entry underpants
• A majority of polka bands use an accordion or concertina.2006, Richard March, “Polka”, in Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, Andrew [R. L.] Cayton, editors, The American Midwest: An Interpretive…. From the entry squeeze box
• Like the "concertina oompah" phase of the Dutchman style, the Slovenian polka sound emphasizes skill with a squeezebox.1999, James P. Leary, “Polka Music in a Polka State”, in James P. Leary, editor, Wisconsin Folklore, Madison, Wis.: University of…. From the entry squeeze box
• Both Martínez and Jiménez recorded prolifically, usually dance music—the ubiquitous polka as well as such universal favorites as redowas and schottisches.1981, Manuel H. Peña, “The emergence of Conjunto Music, 1935-1955”, in Richard Bauman, Roger D. Abrahams, editors, And Other Neighborly…. From the entry redowa
• Many of the dances practiced by adults, the polka as well as more contemporary ones, induce a mild form of ilinx.1969, Folklore Annual of the University Folklore Association. From the entry ilinx
• The polka dots are scars left by the cookiecutter shark, a thalassophobia-inducing creature with jaws designed to remove round plugs of flesh.2021 March 30, J. B. MacKinnon, “An Entire Group of Whales Has Somehow Escaped Human Attention”, in The Atlantic. From the entry cookiecutter shark
• While you dine you'll be entertained by the Alpenlanders Band; the Edelweiss Singers; and the energetic Edelweiss Dancers performing various polkas, waltzes and schuhplattles.2003 May 28, “Austrian Edelweiss”, in Leader-Post, Regina, Sask., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 2. From the entry schuhplattle
• The best-protected species are the big, peaceful filter feeders, the basking shark and particularly the whale shark, with its photogenic polka dots and mysterious long-range migration patterns.2015, Theo Tait, ‘Don't wear yum-yum yellow’, London Review of Books, volume 34, number 15. From the entry filter feeder
• Smetana's romantic comedy epitomizes one stereotype of Czechness: happy villagers in quaint peasant garb, dancing polkas and skocnas in the local pub while singing hymns in praise of beer.1999 May 2, Derek Katz, “MUSIC: Reading the Future in Readings of ‘Rusalka’”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 Dec 2009. From the entry Czechness

Meaning of polka

1. noun A lively dance originating in Bohemia.
2. noun The music for this dance.
3. noun A polka jacket.

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How do you use polka in a sentence?

Polka is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He was bewildered by how the car was festooned with polka dots.”

What is a short sentence with polka?

“A majority of polka bands use an accordion or concertina.”

What does polka mean?

Polka means a lively dance originating in Bohemia.