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  • She moved lightly across the ground, fox-trotting, her tail carried like a banner.

    The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

  • How would you like to see Jewel fox-trotting on DWTS?

    Jewel “Dancing With The Stars” Depature “Heartbreaking” 2009

  • Even when I had two legs I was no dancer, so the idea of fox-trotting, tangoing or cha-cha-cha-ing in front of an audience of millions is unthinkable to me.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Kay Olson 2007

  • Even when I had two legs I was no dancer, so the idea of fox-trotting, tangoing or cha-cha-cha-ing in front of an audience of millions is unthinkable to me.

    Mini-Slumgullion # 34 Kay Olson 2007

  • I think Congress should give themselves another raise, not only because they are doing such a great job, but because they are focusing on the real issues, like ridding America of liberal, fox-trotting terrorists like Jerry Springer.

    'Dancing With the Stars': All reality TV is local | EW.com 2006

  • There go those poor adorable fox-trotting waifs from Mad Hot Ballroom!

    Oscar, You Insensitive Lout 2006

  • There go those poor adorable fox-trotting waifs from Mad Hot Ballroom!

    Oscar, You Insensitive Lout 2006

  • The path to freedom tonight was blocked by a fox-trotting mob of besotted doctoral candidates.

    Excerpt: Inamorata by Joseph Gangemi 2004

  • The dances were all of the eager fox-trotting type of the period with interpolations and variations according to the moods and temperaments of the individual dancers.

    An American Tragedy 2004

  • Perhaps boys prefer her company to that of the butterflies with whom they dance a dozen times an but, youth in this jazz-nourished generation is temperamentally restless, and the idea of fox-trotting more than one full fox trot with the same girl is distasteful, not to say odious.

    Flappers and Philosophers 2003

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