How to Use frisson in a Sentence

frisson

noun

• For swearing to work, there has to be a frisson of taboo about it.
  — Emma Byrne, Time, 23 Jan. 2018
• Looking for just the smallest frisson of spice, or none at all?
  — Beth Segal, cleveland.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• There is a frisson to seeing Tetiaroa for the first time from the air.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2017
• Nowhere in the film is there a momentary thrill, nor any frisson of fear.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2022
• Perhaps, this year there will be just a little more frisson from the game.
  — Eric Fuller, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• The same movie made with grade-Z actors wouldn’t have the same frisson.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
• But there’s just not enough frisson to that question to drive the movie forward.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2019
• There’s a sense of calm, all right, spiked with a tiny frisson of adventure.
  — Brian J. Cantwell, The Seattle Times, 21 Sep. 2017
• There’s also the frisson of danger that lurks and is very real.
  — Beth Segal, cleveland, 1 Oct. 2021
• There was a frisson of excitement.
  — Jay Glennie, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025
• For those who crave the ladylike feel of a dress but long for the frisson of something new, fear not.
  — Natasha Silva-Jelly, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Nov. 2014
• These messages from the past can cause a frisson when read by visitors today.
  — National Geographic, 3 Sep. 2019
• Lockdown was scary from the get go, but those initial weeks had the frisson of disruption.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 17 Sep. 2020
• The piece brought with it pianist Jonathan Biss, with his usual frisson as a bonus.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• Talk of spare parts shortages added an extra frisson of excitement.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2023
• Without the frisson of face-to-face confrontation, what’s the point of this town-hall showdown?
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2020
• The frisson of excitement before a Test match begins is still very much a thing.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
• And in the perfect chiaroscuro, this is a woman who thrives on the frisson of impossible love.
  — Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 8 June 2019
• This gives the movie an extra frisson, adding to its portrait of a self-destructive woman.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2016
• The contract price keeps climbing with every frisson-inducing flick of his stick.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Jan. 2023
• Beyond the railing, water (ocean, sea or lake) surges and, with a bird, gives the image a frisson of drama.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• Throwing ideas around invites a frisson of electricity to pass between you and those close to you.
  — Debbie Frank, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2024
• Without him, the gathering will likely lose a frisson of drama.
  — Joshua Partlow, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2018
• His aim is to use their technical mastery to bring a frisson of daring back to British fashion.
  — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
• Even without a frisson of danger, the sightings are more rewarding.
  — Holden Frith, TheWeek, 9 Jan. 2026
• The audience exuded a frisson of pleasure as if the camel had returned for an encore, and some laughed.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2022
• Church, or at least First Parish, was not the place where a person in Concord could find this kind of frisson.
  — Sarah Blackwood, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2022
• But throughout the drama, the deal elicited a frisson of excitement from a wide swath of people for a range of reasons.
  — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
• Africa Without Walls Trade in the four-posters and clawfoot tubs for the frisson of fly tents and true wilderness.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 13 Mar. 2018
• If what are meant to be the eerie parts of the story do not deliver much of a frisson, the more human interactions do create a nice glow.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2022