Sentence examples for a curtsy from inspiring English sources

With a curtsy, she conducted us inside.

A bow? A curtsy? (Ms. Santo Domingo quasi-crouched).

"I kicked my feet together and jumped up and did a curtsy.

The effect is almost dainty, the musical equivalent of a curtsy.

I'd been taught a handshake and a curtsy, but I avoided using them if I could.

Mr. Gurung, in a white T-shirt with the sleeves pushed up over his shoulders, actually did a curtsy.

Cue a curtsying and pirouetting Serena in the centre of Arthur Ashe.

They entered, curtsied, performed a choreographed backwards walk and a further curtsy, while manoeuvring a dress train of prescribed length.

Then she gingerly hoisted up her hem and leaped over a velvet rope to do a goofy curtsy in front of a Dior-clad Meryl Streep.

Known for her extravagant gestures — dropping to her knees in a deep curtsy before an actor she adores; grasping the heads of those she loves in both hands while looking deep into their eyes, proclaiming her affection; dressing in purple to establish a trademark — she is, it is surprising to discover, actually cautious, and yes, quite shy.

The boy, seeing a chance to show off, dipped in a sweeping curtsy after the fashion of a convent girl curtsying to a nun.