frill

Example Sentences

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He points to where the three horns should be at the top of the frill, but the one in the middle is missing.

From BBC • May 19, 2025

Color was a frill, and perhaps an illusion.

From Salon • Nov. 16, 2024

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

As if it was trivial for us, a frill, a whim.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood