The artist's brush danced across the canvas.

Meaning: The artist was painting very skillfully and beautifully.

Choice of Words: Artist is a person who creates works of art, such as paintings, sculptures, or music. Brush is a tool with bristles or hairs, used for painting or cleaning. Danced means to move rhythmically to music. Across means from one side to the other. Canvas is a strong, plain-woven fabric used for painting on. When you put them together, "artist's brush danced across the canvas" means the artist was skillfully and gracefully moving their brush across the canvas while painting.

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