flouncing

present participle of flounce

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for flouncing
Verb
  • Plus, the icy pastel hues are reminiscent of ballerinas prancing in The Nutcracker.
    Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Backlash from economists Economists aren’t mincing their words about Antoni’s credentials.
    Tobias Burns, The Hill, 17 Aug. 2025
  • John Leguizamo is not mincing words in addressing Dean Cain‘s recent decision to join ICE.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 9 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The actress was spotted in Hudson Square strutting in a pair of pointed-toe, satin pumps from the Italian footwear brand.
    Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Last week, the ‘90s supermodel closed out New York Fashion Week strutting for Coolibar’s Mott50 line of resortwear that also doubles as sunblock.
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Jenner donned a black leather bra and matching micro shorts that had hanging silver chains attached at the hips.
    Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The one specific pressing issue hanging over the Bengals is the future of star defensive end Trey Handrickson, who has been at odds with them for months.
    Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Speaking with Entertainment Weekly for a Witcher season 4 cover story, showrunner Lauren Hissrich exclusively confirms that Minnie Driver will not return as the shape-shifting, time-traveling, parallel world-traipsing Seanchaí.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Sep. 2025
  • One of the first celebrities to be regularly photographed in her everyday clothes, Birkin was an early icon of street style, traipsing around Paris in sneakers and rumpled sweaters, wicker basket in hand.
    Anahid Nersessian, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Oscar Isaac‘s Victor Frankenstein is part 18th-century dandy and part swaggering Swinging Sixties rock star, as if Lord Byron had been genetically spliced with Brian Jones.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
  • With his deathly pallor and Byronic charm, Stamp was perfect as the self-destructive, swaggering scoundrel who is haunted by visions of a spectral little girl.
    Christina Newland, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Rachael Powell, chief deputy district attorney in the Fourth Judicial District, said close relationships with law enforcement can help prosecutors overcome hurdles in stalking cases.
    Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The papers argued that the death penalty charge should be dismissed because prosecutors have failed to identify the other offenses that would be required to convict him, writing that the other alleged crime — stalking — is not a crime of violence.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • RuPaul Charles is sashaying to the big screen with the first feature film from the RuPaul’s Drag Race universe.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
  • RuPaul’s Drag Race is sashaying to the big screen with a camp runaway train thriller as the MTV drag queen competition series continues to expand its storytelling universe.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
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“Flouncing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flouncing. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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