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Definition of Sashaying
1. sashay [v] - See also: sashay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sashaying
Literary usage of Sashaying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memorabilia and Anecdotal Reminiscences of Columbia, S. C.: And Incidents by Julian A. Selby, William Gilmore Simms (1905)
"I was sashaying as well as I could, and you kept yelling, 'Sashay, Moore! ...
I mean, 'keep on sashaying' till I change the figure," said the excited darkey ..."
2. Teaching The Best Practice Way: Methods That Matter, K-12 by Harvey Daniels, Marilyn Bizar (2005)
"... portrayed by the lone girl in the group but by Ron, sashaying around in a
dress he must have dug up from his sister's closet when she wasn't looking. ..."
3. Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the New by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Archaeological Institute of America Southwest Society, Sequoya League (1908)
"When I came back, leading Nellie all doubled up, Miss Hanley was still sashaying
about some, but the twitching was leaving her gradual. ..."
4. Natural Gas Industry (1922)
"After sashaying down the sidewalk for half a block they met another man who was
also somewhat wobbly on his feet, and one of them said: "Look here, ..."
5. Memorabilia and Anecdotal Reminiscences of Columbia, S. C.: And Incidents by Julian A. Selby, William Gilmore Simms (1905)
"I was sashaying as well as I could, and you kept yelling, 'Sashay, Moore! ...
I mean, 'keep on sashaying' till I change the figure," said the excited darkey ..."
6. Teaching The Best Practice Way: Methods That Matter, K-12 by Harvey Daniels, Marilyn Bizar (2005)
"... portrayed by the lone girl in the group but by Ron, sashaying around in a
dress he must have dug up from his sister's closet when she wasn't looking. ..."
7. Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the New by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Archaeological Institute of America Southwest Society, Sequoya League (1908)
"When I came back, leading Nellie all doubled up, Miss Hanley was still sashaying
about some, but the twitching was leaving her gradual. ..."
8. Natural Gas Industry (1922)
"After sashaying down the sidewalk for half a block they met another man who was
also somewhat wobbly on his feet, and one of them said: "Look here, ..."
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