Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flouncing
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The Aztecs won 89-86 before an electric home crowd on a night that had 12 ties and 11 lead changes and seemed like five against six sometimes with the way UNLV coach Josh Pastner was prancing around the floor in a suit and tie while the ball was in play.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Mar. 2026 -
In the album’s most beautiful moments, Triplin makes arpeggios sound like prancing through an earthly paradise and sands off juke’s rough edges to produce rhythms that seem to chug along in the margins of a daydreaming brain.—
Kiana Mickles,
Pitchfork,
5 Mar. 2026
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The article inside is a strained and mincing document filled with speculation that gay-male social life is entangled with the power structure of Silicon Valley.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
27 Mar. 2026
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Let your food processor do all the hard work of mincing the herbs and garlic—just throw all the ingredients in and voila!—
Mary Shannon Wells,
Southern Living,
14 Mar. 2026
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Wasn’t there anyone in a position to at least stop him from strutting into a high-profile race for governor?—
Michelle Cottle,
Mercury News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Hadid last sported a mushroom brown hair color with lighter blonde ends in February while strutting the runway at the Ralph Lauren fashion show during New York Fashion Week.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
13 Apr. 2026
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Well remember, there’s a corrupt shadow hanging over the Supreme Court.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
10 May 2026
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Some solitary wasps build many nests together in a community, and some live in nests underground so hanging decoys wouldn’t make a difference.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
9 May 2026
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Families flock to the Cape for mini-golfing, traipsing around sand dunes, comparing ice cream stands, gobbling up lobster rolls, spotting whales, and simply admiring the gray cedar shake houses adorned with colorful buoys.—
Kara Williams,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2026
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Throughout the visual, the three-time Grammy winner can be seen traipsing through the palace's opulent halls in a coquettish ensemble, capturing the elation of newfound romance.—
Ilana Kaplan,
PEOPLE,
17 Apr. 2026
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The advertisement opened with a backside shot of a man clothed in Levi’s jeans, a western shirt and leather gloves, swaggering up to a pair of saloon doors.—
Jack Armstrong,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
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Don the swaggering employee needs to learn a lesson about gender identity.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
15 Mar. 2026
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During a motions hearing in May 2024, prosectors presented evidence of Bryant having a history of harassing and stalking young women, even breaking into their apartments, per 11 Alive.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
9 May 2026
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Five years earlier, in 2019, Trepanier was convicted of stalking and indecent exposure stemming from two incidents on one day in August 2018 in White Bear Lake and Vadnais Heights.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
8 May 2026
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After her victory, news cameras captured her sashaying in blue while pumping her arms in jubilation.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
6 May 2026
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Kim had a major runway moment during Audigier's Fall 2007 show, sashaying in this floral minidress and an on-the-moment arm cuff.—
Emily Kirkpatrick,
PEOPLE,
30 Apr. 2026
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“Flouncing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flouncing. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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