Examples:

• He danced with death when he tried to negotiate a deal with that dangerous criminal.
• The crossing of the border into enemy territory was like dancing with death. You are dancing with death in your effort to cross that narrow ledge.
• When the last two surviving vigilantes arrive, locked in their own dance of death and revenge, Allie must either preserve her own innocence or be corrupted by vengeance herself.
• While the Star Dance cannot be used for directly violent purposes, the Dance of Death does very little but impart violence.