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sun dance

NOUN
  1. a ceremonial dance performed by Amerindians at the summer solstice

How To Use sun dance In A Sentence

  • The sun dance was their opera and their theater event of the year.
  • One need only note the permanent structures for sun dances and other native religious ceremonies that can be seen on most reserves.
  • The solar flares and the corona of the sun danced athwart the planet's silhouette.
  • The Sun Dance is the greatest ceremony that the Oglalas do.
  • The sun dances on me, it teems, bountiful with its time.
  • One breaks into an impromptu jig, or sun dance, or hobo shuffle, whatever, while the others clap the beat.
  • The Sun Dance ceremony practised by Plains Indians required the skins of dead animals in order to glorify the spirit of the wolf.
  • The Sun Dance, also known as the Offerings Lodge ceremonial, is one of the seven sacred ceremonials of the Sioux and is a ceremonial for which they have come to be widely known.
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