flounce

Example Sentences

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The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were confluence and flounce.

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 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

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

She shrugged and walked over to my couch, where she sat down in a flounce of her retro circle skirt, putting her wedge-clad feet on my coffee table.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon