flounce
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We've seen Cristiano Ronaldo flounce his way out of Hampden.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2024
For fall, diaphanous tiers of 1970s flounce in almost angelically light hues defined the show’s aesthetic inside a brutalist warehouse space.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Ana de Armas, best actress nominee for "Blonde," wore a silver column dress with a flamenco dancer-like flounce on the bottom.
From Reuters ● Mar. 13, 2023
One morning, their mother asked Nelson to wear her loveliest dress, a dark frock with a flounce at the bottom, and then piled her and Cook into the landlord’s car while he drove.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2020
Those puffed sleeves, the flounce, and the little bodice.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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
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
Also in the mix were statement-making tulle dressing gowns that flounced and bounced with ostrich or marabou feathers, custom made by L.A. designer Catherine D’Lish.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2017
I would have said “no one’s pressuring me,” as I flounced along to Stringfellows if that’s where the party went.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2016
He was dropping them into Arul’s sack when the rich girl bounded out of the house and flounced over to us in her frilly dress.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
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
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
As the Mistress, Elizabeth Debicki is a flouncing yet imposing presence.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2013
“You couldn’t catch me,” snotnosed Katie said, flouncing away and galumphing loudly down the carpeted stairs.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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