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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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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Keeping them whole rather than mincing the cloves is likely key here.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 Feb. 2026
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Models strutting in retro pouffy wigs (the models literally look like ’60s mannequins), shirts with giant buttons, leather pants that look four sizes too huge.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
21 Mar. 2026
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An Arlington native won a spot on NBC’s The Voice this month, strutting on stage in a black leather vest, boots, chunky silver jewelry and a cowgirl hat, delivering a soulful blind audition.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
16 Mar. 2026
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There was the usual assemblage of male and female Anna’s and just a couple of the Allen’s darting out occasionally from the sanctuary of the nearby tree to drink nectar from the hanging feeders.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
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At one point, a part of the big-rig was hanging over the railing.—
Tim Fang,
CBS News,
29 Mar. 2026
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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
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As mentioned, Milan is known for its art, and the runways fittingly reflected muses traipsing directly from an art party (or basement rave) to the catwalk.—
Arden Fanning Andrews,
Vogue,
1 Mar. 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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And Jordan's performances as Smoke and Stack are indeed confident and distinctive, not just in their different sartorial choices but in their mannerisms, with the actor excelling at portraying both Smoke's stoic practicality and Stack's swaggering charm.—
Ken Simmons,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Mar. 2026
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The indictment also stated that Dadig harassed his victims by showing up to their homes and places of business unannounced and uninvited, stalking them, taking and posting photographs of them online without their consent and revealing private details about their lives online.—
Michael Guise,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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By turning a freak ballooning accident into a nightmare stalking situation, McEwan left me reflecting on the fragility of relationships and the unpredictability of the human mind.—
The Week UK,
TheWeek,
20 Mar. 2026
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Understand Substorms The aurora isn’t sashaying at full blast all night.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Outside,
27 Jan. 2026
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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 30 Mar. 2026.
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