noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
prima ballerina
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
prima
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Once the best you could hope for was a 50-year-old prima ballerina who sometimes starred at the local opera house.
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I am not a prima ballerina .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Apparently the ballerina Pavlova came here to learn to dance like a swan for the ballet Swan Lake.
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It seemed a physical impossibility, her massive body bounding with the grace of a ballerina .
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Janet Collins became the leading ballerina of the Metropolitan Opera in the early 1950s.
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Once the best you could hope for was a 50-year-old prima ballerina who sometimes starred at the local opera house.
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Partner Cyril Pierre lifted his ballerina with sublime ease.
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The ballerina has to behave as graciously and confidently as her partner.
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These were not the dainty and chaste twirls and curtseys of the ballerinas at Lincoln Center.
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We were topped by ballerinas dressed as bumblebees.