frilled

past tense of frill

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for frilled
Verb
  • Across the garden, a pool and graceful pavilion are fringed by trees.
    Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Tongue-in-cheek elements stand out at the heart of the store, including a sofa embroidered to depict life-sized silhouettes of three nude bodies.
    Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Displayed in the same first-floor gallery, Because (2018) comprises artworks composed of photographs in wooden frames under a curtain embroidered with a phrase explaining what triggered her photographic act.
    Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This was a city already written into outdoor lore, where counterculture and endurance have long braided together.
    Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Stalter had braided a selection into her hair.
    Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the low light, rocky walls loom, wreathed in fog from the hot water.
    Brienne Walsh, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • This detail, at once tragic and comic, painfully human and stupidly bureaucratic, captures something essential about Schattenfroh, an extremely dark novel about the horrors of modern European history laced with the delirious, disconcerting humor of a Hieronymus Bosch painting.
    Book Marks September 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Don, Gail and Heather were taken to the hospital and died within days after consuming the Beef Wellington served by Erin, which had been laced with the deadly mushrooms at her Leongatha house in July 2023, PEOPLE previously reported.
    Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • For a moment, the silence hung heavy in the room.
    Nathan Furr, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The owner, @kobethesausage, shared a video of Kobe the sausage dog—with his head sticking out, tongue on show, while sitting in a bag hung over a door handle.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Frilled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frilled. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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