flounce

Example Sentences

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Only a generation ago, some gardener-critics thought them lacking in elegance and refinement, too conspicuous in their flounce.

From Washington Post • Nov. 15, 2022

The Hollywood Reporter's Robyn Bahr agreed that "the flounce and fizziness of the original series are largely absent from this moodier and more self-serious one".

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2021

In the Bourse de la Commence, a finely tailored business-like jacket filed by above a gray skirt with a flounce cut on the bias.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2021

Edie’s daughter is left to flounce off, their relationship unresolved and the strain of extended obligation — a growing concern for many in an aging population — unexplored.

From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2019

But she turned with a flounce of her skirt and went.

From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry