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Examples of majorette in a Sentence
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Brianna Bursley is a majorette dancer for the East High School band.
—Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 7 Apr. 2023
This was in the weeks following the high-profile killing of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, a high school band majorette who had performed at President Barack Obama’s inauguration shortly before her death.
—Annie Sweeney, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2021
Brianna, 17, joined the band’s majorette team while in elementary school with the help of her older brother, who also belonged to the band.
—Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 7 Apr. 2023
Memorial Hall is filled almost to its 1,800 seat capacity, with former students, draped in the customary red and sky blue Hornet colors, band members, majorettes, and cheerleaders.
—Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2023
See the legacy Michele kookiness in the towering majorette feather hats and a silver Harry Styles-esque tinsel coat.
—Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2023
Kent State, California and San Diego State are among the schools that have all-Black majorette teams.
—Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2022
At the desk would be someone Suzanne held in total awe: the owner’s daughter, a beautiful redhead who was a majorette in the band.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2022
Hadiya, a majorette, had performed just days before at festivities for his second inauguration.
—Madeline Buckley, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2021
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First Known Use
1940, in the meaning defined above
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“Majorette.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/majorette. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
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majorette
noun
ma·jor·ette
ˌmā-jə-ˈret
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