Sentence examples for the cakewalk from inspiring English sources
noun
A contest in which cake was offered for the best dancers.
Childhood wasn't always the cakewalk it is today.
Not quite the cakewalk they were predicting, it seems.
"It's not the cakewalk that people fantasize," Dr. Berrill said.
It won't be the cakewalk for Murray that most people are assuming.
When Williams did the cakewalk, his infectious charm helped make the dance a national fad.
Watching the other side of the world, some guys gloated over the cakewalk victory.
Both have their left foot pointed forward jauntily; she is teaching him the cakewalk.
The airy glitz of the cakewalk gives way to the gloom of the Shrine Auditorium foyer.
Interview with Ida Forsyne, a colored lady, who used to be known professionally as the Queen of the Cakewalk.
(Like the Charleston of the nineteen-twenties, the cakewalk was invented by blacks to parody the white styles of dance).
The last time we 'misunderestimated' the 'collateral damage' in Iraq, it blew up in our face, turning 'the cakewalk' into a bloodbath.
