flouncing

Definition of flouncingnext
present participle of flounce

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for flouncing
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • This time of year, the Big Dipper, which serves as the rear end and tail of the constellation Ursa Major or the Big Bear, is hanging nearly upside down in the high north-northeast sky.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Plant them in containers, hanging baskets, flower beds, or rock gardens in USDA Zones 6-11.
    Patricia S York, Southern Living, 18 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Long before the site ran scoops about members of Congress traipsing around Edinburgh Castle, a young Levin harbored political aspirations.
    Paula Mejía, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Spend an hour traipsing through flat grass paths on the farm with the owner and goat herder.
    Susan McDonald, The Providence Journal, 26 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • Don the swaggering employee needs to learn a lesson about gender identity.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Meanwhile, the defense claimed that Flores Narvaez was a jealous girlfriend who was violent and stalking Griffith.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Boelter faces six federal charges, including murder, stalking and firearms violations, for the politically motivated attacks.
    Riley Moser, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Understand Substorms The aurora isn’t sashaying at full blast all night.
    Stephanie Vermillion, Outside, 27 Jan. 2026
  • 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
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“Flouncing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flouncing. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.

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