frill

Example Sentences

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It promised that the scorched frill at the bottom of a skillet was not failure, but the start of a sauce.

From Salon • Sep. 4, 2025

Measuring about five metres long and weighing two tonnes, the four-legged beasts had large heads, adorned with a distinctive bony frill and three horns.

From BBC • May 19, 2025

The subject doesn’t require a lot of rhetorical frill to have its effect.

From Slate • Aug. 23, 2024

The ceratopsids vary mostly in their frill patterns and not so much in feeding adaptations, he says: “Their jaws and teeth are more or less built the same way.”

From Science Magazine • Jun. 20, 2024

On leaving home I was able to fabricate a new and far more satisfying history, frill of striking, simplistic environmental influences; a colorful past, easily accessible to strangers.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt