flounce
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We've seen Cristiano Ronaldo flounce his way out of Hampden.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2024
Only a generation ago, some gardener-critics thought them lacking in elegance and refinement, too conspicuous in their flounce.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2022
Rose tends to flounce through every moment of her life as though giving a command performance.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2022
In the Bourse de la Commence, a finely tailored business-like jacket filed by above a gray skirt with a flounce cut on the bias.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2021
However, the colorful meadow-flower print of the fabric and the shocking flounce of pink tulle that had been unevenly stitched ’round the hem surely lent the garment a festive air.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
The self-confident Mr Lindner overplayed his hand four years ago, and was accused of shirking responsibility when he flounced out of coalition talks.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2021
A few months later, he quietly crawled back to Twitter and starting posting again, never acknowledging that he had flounced away in righteous indignation.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2021
In vintage footage from Hot Peaches shows, Wilhelmina shimmers in flounced white sateen as “drag queen superstar Belladella Bosom”, purring “I’m not a woman, I’m not a man, it’s my own game”.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2020
A West Indian band played in the corner, a young girl flounced around in feather boas, and gay men danced the Madison as they sipped on glasses of wine and longed to touch each other.
From Slate ● May 4, 2018
I even screwed up my face and flounced my hands about, as if imitating her snobby behavior.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
Manuel Puig’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman” is perhaps best known in the U.S. as the film that won William Hurt an Oscar for flouncing around a prison cell in a kimono.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
"Rather than flouncing off", said Mr Hussain, the judge showed humour and "embraced" the fluffy intruder.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2021
The team are still confident there will be no flouncing.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2017
Did Nancy Marchand really grab Ms. Harris’s red wig and pull her back into the dressing room from which she was angrily flouncing?
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2013
Blue dress flouncing, a couple of hundred strands of pearls draped around her, an ivory cane that she didn’t really need.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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