flounce
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We've seen Cristiano Ronaldo flounce his way out of Hampden.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2024
For fall, diaphanous tiers of 1970s flounce in almost angelically light hues defined the show’s aesthetic inside a brutalist warehouse space.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
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
In photo shoots, they wore outfits with a Baroque flounce: blazers and ruffled shirts, ascots and sleeve garters.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2020
With a flounce of petticoats she turned away.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
In fact, he was in one of the studios and we were in another studio the night that he flounced out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024
A few months later, he quietly crawled back to Twitter and starting posting again, never acknowledging that he had flounced away in righteous indignation.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2021
Goldwater girls, dressed in sombreros and tasseled boots, flounced around while California delegates holding helium-filled, gold-colored balloons waved a large Bear Flag.
From Slate ● May 12, 2016
I would have said “no one’s pressuring me,” as I flounced along to Stringfellows if that’s where the party went.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2016
When Aunt Loma happened along, carrying the baby, she stared at Miss Love a minute, then flounced into the store and came over where I stood putting bars of Octagon soap on a shelf.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Manuel Puig’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman” is perhaps best known in the U.S. as the film that won William Hurt an Oscar for flouncing around a prison cell in a kimono.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
"Rather than flouncing off", said Mr Hussain, the judge showed humour and "embraced" the fluffy intruder.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2021
The team are still confident there will be no flouncing.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2017
Did Nancy Marchand really grab Ms. Harris’s red wig and pull her back into the dressing room from which she was angrily flouncing?
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2013
My first thought was that the yellow ring had gotten tangled in a bush, and while the monkeys were flouncing and dragging the net over the ground, the net had opened.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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