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How to use troupe in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun, verb

Troupe means a company of, often touring, acrobats, actors, singers or dancers. Example: “Army choirs and troupes perform at some of North Korea's biggest state events.”

Examples of troupe by meaning

nounA company of, often touring, acrobats, actors, singers or dancers.

  • The staging and choreography were fantastic – a giant glass tank on a hydraulic platform, in and around which a troupe of dancers acted out the highs and lows of a teenage party2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in The Guardian
  • Army choirs and troupes perform at some of North Korea's biggest state events.2020 April 24, Oscar Holland, “How North Korea’s ideology is built on song and dance”, in CNN

More sentences with troupe

  • They had to share the elevator with a troupe of candy-stripers heading off to the cafeteria for lunch.2013, Alison Roberts, chapter 5, in An Explosive Reunion (NYC Angels; 8), Richmond, London: Mills & Boon, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry candy-striper
  • Even a lifetime circusgoer is unlikely to have come across a troupe as remarkable as the Tadjibajev family circus.2001, The New York Times Film Reviews 1999-2000, →ISBN, page 211. From the entry circusgoer
  • Among the most popular forms of theatrical entertainment in the nineteenth-century American theatre were the blackfaced minstrel troupes.1996, Barry Witham, Theatre in the United States - A Documentary History, page 160. From the entry blackfaced
  • The finale was a romp in which the entire troupe burst out of the bouldering cave and roiled along the walls.1991, Climbing - Issues 127-129, page 34. From the entry roil
  • Heavy balletomane audience was on hand, generous in its applause welcoming back this unique troupe after a five-year wartime absence.1946 December 14, Frank Gill, “Jooss Ballet Juice In Return to B'way”, in The Billboard, volume 58, number 50, page 48. From the entry terp
  • On Sunday morning (July 2), the Sihu Cantian Temple in Yunlin County's Sihu Township featured numerous performances by yizhen (藝陣), temple-based folk art performance troupes.2023 July 4, Keoni Everington, “2-meter-tall 'gorilla' dances at Taiwan temple”, in Taiwan News, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original…. From the entry Sihu
  • It was a revelation to me, though I was hardly the first queerling to find his heart in the midst of a theater troupe.2017, Armistead Maupin, Logical Family: A Memoir, London: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 138. From the entry queerling
  • I visited this jiao festival with introductions from Fiorella Allio, now the authority on the Xigang festival, who was already studying the Ox-Plow Song troupe.2003, Donald S. Sutton, “Notes”, in Steps of Perfection: Exorcistic Performers and Chinese Religion in Twentieth-Century Taiwan, Harvard…. From the entry Hsikang
  • The courtyard’s empty and the Clients are inside the castle making pigs of themselves while watching a troupe of Thespians bait an animatronic bear.1995 April, George Saunders, “Bounty”, in Harper’s Magazine, volume 290, number 1739. From the entry thespian
  • He was followed (literally) by a troupe of very draped ladies, exactly the score of 'love-sick maidens', led by an imperious Lady Jane.1969, Evan Senior, Music and Musicians - Volume 18, page 17. From the entry draped
  • As he moves back into the shadows, the stage is taken over by a troupe of Pan-like dancers, leaping and cavorting in an obscene ballet.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 94. From the entry cavort
  • After the show had trouped I met an awfully nice girl-⁠-she was neither blonde nor brune, rather betwixt and between, but a corking looker.1907 June, George V[ere] Hobart, Ikey’s Letters to His Father, New York, N.Y.: G. W. Dillingham Company, page 44. From the entry brune
  • Now and again one of them, flushed with triumph, would secern himself from his troupe, and would "star" round the country for his livelihood.1907 October, Max Beerbohm, “‘A Morris for May-Day’”, in Harper’s Monthly Magazine, volume CXV, number DCLXXXIX, New York, N.Y.: Harper &…. From the entry secern
  • Commenting on his love for Talparo, the home of the formidable Talparo Tambule in Kandal troupe (a band of boismen), he said: “I have land in Talparo.2012 January 21, Michelle Loubon, “Rio promoting traditional calypso”, in Trinidad Guardian. From the entry boisman
  • While best known for lending her haunting pipes to doom-folk troupe Espers, Meg Baird's quavering voice reveals itself as singularly lucid and enchanting on her solo work.2011 October, Andy Beta, SPIN, page 73. From the entry doom folk
  • Commedia troupes put together zibaldoni, or commonplace books, in which they gathered together and archived pre-existing written materials for insertion into their works as the situation permitted.2003, Danielle Anna Amato, Collage Corporeality: Body and Technology in Contemporary American Performance, University of California, San…. From the entry commedia
  • When Tzuyang county in the Tapa Mountains in Shensi province was launching a movement to build irrigation works, the county's art troupe was visiting the Lienho commune.[1975 November, “Shoulder-pole Art Troupes”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIV, number 11, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page…. From the entry Ziyang
  • The young dancer is muted and hardly gets a word in edgeways, as the (male) troupe leader and her mother hijack each question and provide answers which are sometimes contradictory.1999, Felicia Hughes-Freeland, “Dance on Film: Strategy and Serendipity”, in Theresa J. Buckland, editor, Dance in the Field: Theory…. From the entry get a word in edgeways
  • Perdziola sets the scene with the arrival of an opera company in elegant “street clothes” of jackets, breeches and cloaks contrasted by Zerbinetta’s comic troupe and her saucy barmaiden appeal.1998 November 15, Abigail Foerstner, “A little breathing room: The challenge of designing costumes for opera”, in Chicago Tribune, 152nd…. From the entry barmaiden

Meaning of troupe

  1. noun A company of, often touring, acrobats, actors, singers or dancers.
  2. noun Any group of people working together on a shared activity.
  3. verb To tour with a troupe.

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Questions about troupe in a sentence

How do you use troupe in a sentence?
Troupe is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Army choirs and troupes perform at some of North Korea's biggest state events.”
What is a short sentence with troupe?
“Army choirs and troupes perform at some of North Korea's biggest state events.”
What does troupe mean?
Troupe means a company of, often touring, acrobats, actors, singers or dancers.

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