Sentence examples for fancy ball from inspiring English sources

Janie Taylor played the doomed heroine in "La Valse," Balanchine's fantasy to Ravel about a macabre fancy ball.

Yet Ms. Gardini, who is in her early 30's, draws the line at fancy ball skirts.

LONDON — In Guy de Maupassant's 1884 story, "The Necklace," a poor woman married to a lowly clerk borrows an elaborate diamond necklace for a fancy ball.

"She was dressed in a fancy ball gown," he added, "like she was coming from a wedding," which turned out to be the case.

After reading E. L. Doctorow's "Ragtime," I dreamed of throwing a fancy ball where, as in Milos Forman's movie, Norman Mailer would arrive dressed as Stanford White.

I had planned to bring you an account of my life on the inaugural D-list, but that was before I scored a ticket to an actual fancy ball: the Obama Home States bash, honoring Illinois and Hawaii.

Bridge laid on a try for the Australian wing Joel Monaghan and some more fancy ball-handling produced tries for the stand-off Lee Briers and Bridge before half-time.

It's about fancy balls and grand houses.

The Central Plaza caters to weddings, fancy balls & the like.

That night, Rex presided over one of two fancy balls held simultaneously at the Municipal Auditorium.

There have been fancy balls and foreign travel and the pride of going to her high school reunion with her handsome husband in his officer's uniform.