flounce

How To Use flounce In A Sentence

• She would have taken a great deal of trouble that her daughters might not be a flounce behind the fashions, and was so far-seeing in her motherly anxieties, that she junketed herself and Major Buller to many an entertainment, where they were bored for their pains, that the extensive acquaintance might ensure to the girls partners, both for balls and for life when they came to require them. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
• As the others flounced and stamped their way through the jungle, Blackburn's equable temper won through.
• He was vexed and flounced out of the dining room.
• To a soundtrack of cooking tips, paedophilia newsflashes and outtakes from the film Brief Encounter, she tries to seduce a stuffed tiger, intercutting her swaying flamenco with mad, petulant little flounces. Alonzo King Lines Ballet; Retina dance company, Collisions, Juliet Aster
• Dressed in severe black taffeta and white veil, Widow Gumple flounced by them. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
• He flounced out of the room in a rage.
• They built a corset for me and added crinoline and flounces, and no one was the wiser - until the footbridge scene, the only love scene in the film.
• Today we have seen him fluff and flounce; he has been full of verbal flatulence all day.
• She flounces off and leaves them all looking awkward.
• The door banged open then and William flounced into the room with a jovial grin.