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
One morning, their mother asked Nelson to wear her loveliest dress, a dark frock with a flounce at the bottom, and then piled her and Cook into the landlord’s car while he drove.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2020
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
Anastasia nods with approval as I flounce out to show her.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
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
A West Indian band played in the corner, a young girl flounced around in feather boas, and gay men danced the Madison as they sipped on glasses of wine and longed to touch each other.
From Slate ● May 4, 2018
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
The night her mother took a Kleenex and forcibly tried to wipe the makeup off her face, Sharon flounced from the house and into her boyfriend’s truck.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Oh sure, Paul Lynde and Liberace were flouncing on television; closer to home, a boy I kept my distance from decoupaged his notebooks.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
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
"Rather than flouncing off", said Mr Hussain, the judge showed humour and "embraced" the fluffy intruder.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2021
Wagging his long tail, he ran over and started barking and growling at the flouncing monkeys.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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