Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flounces
Noun
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Made from cotton and eyelet fabric, the flowy, calf-grazing frock featured a dainty lace trim around the neckline and cuffs, along with ruffles on the back of the silhouette.—
Kelsey Stewart,
Footwear News,
25 Oct. 2025 -
Aknvas also chose a light and bright wash for mini dresses, with exaggerated ruffles and lacing details.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
22 Oct. 2025
Verb
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He high-steps, air-guitars, and sashays around as a program who abandoned his once-rebellious origins to survive the danger of the Grid.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The nightwear ensemble was, of course, bedazzled with purple faux fur cuff trims.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
22 Oct. 2025
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Antique or fragile glass items may also shatter under heat, and glassware finished with metallic trims or decorations can cause sparks or fires.—
Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The restructuring brings in regional chiefs and supervisors normally stationed at the nation's borders to carry out immigration arrests inside the country, a move representing a departure from traditional immigration enforcement structures.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Oct. 2025
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This season finds Srikant on the run, navigating uncharted territories while confronting threats from both within and beyond India’s borders.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Black Hole stalks Chris, a popular girl who contracts the virus, and a stoner named Keith, who is in love with her.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
23 Oct. 2025
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And at its climax, the Grabber, the franchise killer played by Ethan Hawke, gracefully stalks his victims on ice skates, ready to lop some heads with an axe.—
Jack Dunn,
Variety,
20 Oct. 2025
Verb
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At the Barclays, Ellie struts the halls—all eyes are on her and her entourage.—
Marc Williams,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
26 Sep. 2025
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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
Noun
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That plainness, though, adds to the sense that Death in the Family isn’t packing in unnecessary frills, just conveying what happened and following the facts.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
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Trending codes of modern prep are equipping fashion’s beloved horse girl with all of its frills and finery.—
Minty Mellon,
Vogue,
9 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Ella’s son is now 7 and sometimes traipses downstairs to gouge his grandparents’ cereal collection.—
Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
2 Oct. 2025
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Binoculars swinging from their necks, the group heads across North West Street and traipses through the government campus toward the Statehouse whose southernmost lawns host more habitat for migrating birds.—
Karl Schneider,
IndyStar,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Flounces.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flounces. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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