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
Ana de Armas, best actress nominee for "Blonde," wore a silver column dress with a flamenco dancer-like flounce on the bottom.
From Reuters ● Mar. 13, 2023
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
I flounce downstairs, half spoiling for a fight.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
After stranding runners in scoring position in each of his first three innings, Miller flexed, fist-pumped and flounced his way off the rubber.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2023
The self-confident Mr Lindner overplayed his hand four years ago, and was accused of shirking responsibility when he flounced out of coalition talks.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2021
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
It’s less flounced up in audio taffata, and Gaga’s vocals are throaty and heartfelt, on a sonic plane that’s been sanded out of the official version.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2016
“Speak for yourself,” she said crossly, and flounced to the door, pushing the perambulator so fiercely that it bumped into a bag of oysters.
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
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
Nemec recognizes this, to some degree, by only mentioning a central figure from the anime who is basically a flailing, flouncing mess of childish squeaks and quirks.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2021
The girl was timid with strangers, but exuberant at home – playing practical jokes, haranguing her parents with mock political speeches or flouncing around in her ballet costumes.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 2, 2016
To the couple's relief, the woman eventually backed down, merely flouncing out with the guitar before disappearing in a blue Jaguar.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2013
There was no pivotal moment of creative difference, no storming or flouncing out.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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