Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flounces
Noun
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In a sequence that kicks off with a dance break alongside Colman Domingo dressed in drag, Carpenter wears a whimsical metallic fringe chainmail halter top with matching arm cuffs and a pair of mirrorball bottoms decked out in ruffles and sequins.—
Michelle Lee,
People.com,
1 Sep. 2025 -
Rather than embellishing her $68 bloomers with the ruffles and frills of 19th-century French intimates, Hourston leans into casual prints and patterns to distinguish her bloomers.—
Tiana Randall,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are standard with all trims.—
James Raia,
Mercury News,
7 Sep. 2025
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Interior trims range from basic to luxurious, but all feature easy to use controls, physical switches and dials for key functions and one of the auto industry’s best touch screens and infotainment systems.—
Mark Phelan,
Freep.com,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Many, like six of the 24 at Sawyer Point, are hybrid courts, where the smaller pickleball outlines overlap with larger tennis borders.—
Ethan Singer,
New York Times,
2 Sep. 2025
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Sadly, the Games that were slated for 2020 were postponed until 2021 due to Covid, while Japan’s borders remained closed until October 2022.—
Isabelle Kliger,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Joe, glowering, stalks off through the crowd, clambers into his vehicle, and drives off.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
5 Sep. 2025
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What tension there is comes from a few short sections in which Helgi’s violent ex, Bergthora, stalks Anita.—
Bruce DeSilva,
Boston Herald,
29 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The only actor who looks at home here is Chloë Sevigny as Kim, the resident Yale Philosophy Department psychotherapist, who struts through the movie in a series of baggy suits and a curly bowl haircut that wouldn’t be out of place on the Beverly Hillbillies’ Miss Jane Hathaway.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
29 Aug. 2025
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But the Maginot instead crashes in a part of southeast Asia that’s the dominion of Prodigy, a corporation founded by Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin), an overgrown child obsessed with Peter Pan, who struts around his research facility barefoot in pajamas.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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There were no frills or playful moments.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
4 Sep. 2025
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Either way, a low-risk, low-frills deal.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
2 Sep. 2025
Verb
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As Powerball excitement sweeps the nation for hopeful gamblers, aspiring players in certain states shouldn't get their hopes up, and not because of the long odds to win.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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Instead, its breathless, queasy energy sweeps us along.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
30 Aug. 2025
Verb
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At the end of every successful criminal prosecution, one question hangs over the heads of offenders, victims and attorneys.—
Quinlan Bentley,
The Enquirer,
3 Sep. 2025
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The impact of Google's decisions on the handset's battery life hangs over the device.—
Ewan Spence,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Flounces.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flounces. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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