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.
Miss Howitt's dress was in the height of fashion; blue silk spencer over a white round dress with several flounces at the hem, complemented by a yellow paisley shawl draped over her shoulders.
It was fairly simple: having no frills or flounces, yet it was that simplicity that made the dress so appealing.
Any self-respecting 17-year-old vegetarian would have flounced away in disgust, but instead my response marked the first flicker that my veggie years may be short-lived.
Featuring four increasing layers of illusion netting and a flounced chapel length train, this gown is beautified by an all over floral embroidered and beaded pattern.
It would also be quite wrong of me to flounce out when I still had work to do. RESCUING ROSE
I'm not, mother; only think" -- Nancy's eyes glistened -- "no more velveteen masquerading as velvet, no more bargain-counter shoes and gloves, no more percaline petticoats with silk flounces, no more Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905
Puffed sleeves and flounces convey a playful, romantic look.
The blind old owl, whirring out of the hollow tree, quite amazed at the disturbance, flounced into the face of a ploughboy, who knocked her down with a pitchfork. The Newcomes
Ruffle necklines are big too, as well as fluted sleeves, hem flounces and ruched side panels.
The theme of ‘charming and hippie’ is highlighted in floral designs and flounces which go together with boots and wide waistbelts.
Women's attire consists of solid-colored or polka-dot dresses with tightly fitted bodices and flounced skirts and sleeves.
With a sarcastic ‘thanks’, she flounces off the bus.
It consisted of the straight robe mentioned above, with an elaborate flounced and layered over-skirt tied on at the waist.
An eclectic mix of feminine flounce and frill, with models in georgettes, net and chiffons was the highlight.
She adored going to her dressmakers and ordering huge flounced crinoline ball gowns for her daughters.
At length poor Mrs. Camford uttered a faint cry, which called Thisbe's attention back to the spot from whence it never should have strayed, -- her mistress 'cushioned chair, -- and she rushed in a sort of frenzy for the nerve-reviver, and applied it to the trembling lady's nostrils; whereupon that delicately-constituted specimen of the genus feminine uttered a stentorian shriek and flounced about the room like an irate porcupine, greatly to the terror of Alice, who had never witnessed such a scene before. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems
She flounced a few inches away, then began tearing strips off the sheet.
GIRL: "I don't so much mind what you call her flux-de-bouche scolding, but, when she flounced out of the room, she said I was not to go home this Saturday. Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One
Then she gave ma a snotty look before she flounced off.
And the ease of self-publishing is fueling this; it's fueling the rage at the so-called "gatekeepers" and allowing authors to vent without fear of reprisal because they're just going to flounce off and publish their books by themselves. Melanie Benjamin: Stop the Insanity and Just Write, Already
Using seams, pleating and sculpting, Gaultier sent out silhouettes that traced the outline of the body then ended in dramatic flounces, drapes or pleats.
a third stands quietly until his lading is nearly completed, and then suddenly starts and flounces until he throws every thing off, a fourth at the same interesting point stamps upon your foot, breaks away, and scampers off into the prairie, strewing the way with his burden, a fifth refuses to be loaded at all, and a sixth to stand still, be led or driven. Life in the Rocky Mountains
While Tisci focused on black and oyster, Lacroix used a vast array of colors and along with the rich details of beads, laces, corsets, flounces and satin.
The whirligig of fashion trends dictated that the look of Zandra back in the Seventies is exactly the look of 2002-gypsy flounces, boots and floaty hippie blouses and dippy hemlines.
By now, we intuit the differing nuances each time Snooki flounces off in her fuzzy slippers or Sammi tells Ronnie to "do you. Deanna Fei: Why Every Writer Should Watch Jersey Shore
The desk itself suggests brocade flounces and powdered hair, so exquisitely is it constructed of tulipwood and inlaid with other woods of many colors. The House in Good Taste
The muslin gowns had been very successful; the skirts fell in a straight line from the waistband high under their arms to their feet, one with a little edge of fine white embroidery, the other with a frill scarcely to be called a flounce round the foot. Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
How many of the 120 million in that wall-to-wall crustacean broadloom would have flounced off in a huff? Unfair Dinkum
She flounced out of my room in a huff.
Right, don't expect any help from me in future!" he said and flounced out of the room.
She flounced -- 'flounce' was the only appropriate word! The Beetle
A market-woman with her jolly brown face and laughing brown eyes — eyes all the softer for a touch of antimony — her ample form clothed in a lively print overall, made with a yoke at the shoulders, and a full long flounce which is gathered on to the yoke under the arms and falls fully to the feet; with her head done up in a yellow or red handkerchief, and her snowy white teeth gleaming through her vast smiles, is a mighty pleasant thing to see, and to talk to. Travels in West Africa
Right, don't expect any help from me in future!" he said and flounced out of the room.
She did look a bit odd; she wore a slightly torn red dress, with puffy sleeves and flounces starting at her hips and reaching down to the floor.
This site spells 'peplum' at least two different ways, and talks about flounces "ascending down dress back. Just two questions (okay, maybe three) - A Dress A Day
The frilled, flounced and furbelowed 1850s grew more ornate with each passing day and even the littlest humans were as loaded with ribbons, bows, embroidery and lace as any Parisian belle.
Ruffle necklines are big too, as well as fluted sleeves, hem flounces and ruched side panels.
Women's attire consists of solid-colored or polka-dot dresses with tightly fitted bodices and flounced skirts and sleeves.
She tossed her pretty curls and flounced her hips and tucked the charm back into his pocket. SANDS OF TIME
You learn a lot of these techniques from the older patterns from the 80's and early 90's, which had all kinds of details such as peplums and bows and flounces. Light Yellow Cotton Dress
However, when fashion decreed crinolines, bustles, and fussy late-Victorian frills and flounces, Australia tried to follow.
After an exchange of pleasantries the ambassador told Derry who our man was and which paper he represented, upon which Lord Wallpaper turned abruptly and flounced off.
`Trish, dear, you mustn't flounce off in a huff like this. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
The grey, wistful eyes stared past his shoulder at the oil painting on the wall behind him, dimmed with age a little, but still showing clearly the golden-haired woman in her pale-pink lace gown, crinolined with a hundred and seven flounces. The Thorn Birds
A peplum is a short flounce added to the waist of a dress or jacket. "Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930
She flounced out of my room in a huff.
She gets a pouty face on and flounces over to Jacobs.
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 an 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
After setting the distance in inches of my average step, I hooked it on to my waistband and flounced around the kitchen and dining room for several minutes.
Mr Posh was so miffed he flounced into training, lanky hair pushed back by an Alice band to show off his scar to the world, wearing the sort of sulk most three-year-olds would consider melodramatic.
Her shoes white satin, embroidered in gold; the sleeves and body of the chemise, which is of the finest cambric, trimmed with rich lace; and the petticoat, which comes below the dress, shows two flounces of Valenciennes. Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
Compared to the sophisticated aubergine walls and sparkling amethyst chandeliers of the dining room, the bedrooms have much more of a country-house feel, with lots of flounces and frills.
Tia watched the younger twin flounce out of the room as the older one came in.
On the 'bertha' term: lacemakers refer to the deep flounce itself as a 'Bertha'. Dress A Day Research Challenge - A Dress A Day
The dressing-table had a frilled flounce; and lying on it was a hand mirror ready to be picked up. THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
When the correct bottle is brought up from the store and a replacement drink is poured, the waitress slams it down on the table and flounces off.
Newspaper paragraphs will begin thus: "The lovely wearer of the lace is about thirty-four years of age, but looks much older – in fact, nearly as antique as her own flounces," etc., etc. Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910
His defection aggrieved her so bitterly, that the fiercest of her wrath turned upon him; and after a wrangle wherein all the parties concerned had made liberal use of those "aculeate and proper" words against which the wary Bacon warns his quarrelling readers, she flounced away into the darkness of the small hours of the stormy December morning, loudly avowing her determination never to see a sight of the ugly, dirty, mane-spirited poltroon, or open her lips to him as long as she had an eye or a tongue in her head. Strangers at Lisconnel
In another town the awning from a shop window must not exceed a certain length, and you are told of a poor widow, who, having just had a new one put up at great expense, was compelled by the police to take the whole thing down, because the flounce was a quarter of an inch longer than the regulations prescribed. Home Life in Germany
Showing that she could flounce significantly faster than she could take dictation, the waitress appeared with a loaded tray.
Abruptly he turned with a swoosh of his cape, then flounced away, leaving Morgan staring after him.
Add drama with flounces, lace and fringe in steamy matador looks.
At one time it is a pompous banquet in a superb saloon festooned with gold, with tall lustrous windows and pale crimson curtains, the doge in his simarre dining with the magistrates in purple robes, and masked guests gliding over the floor; nothing is more elegant than the exquisite aristocracy of their small feet, their slender necks and their jaunty little three-cornered hats among skirts flounced with yellow or pearly gray silks. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One)
Articles of wearing apparel were done upon a soft fine muslin called mull, breadths of which were embroidered for skirts, lengths of it were scalloped and embroidered for flounces, and hand-lengths of it were done for the short waists and sleeves of the pretty Colonial gowns worn by our delicate ancestresses. The Development of Embroidery in America
For the rest; the dress was made with extreme simplicity, guiltless of flounce or furbelow; it was but the light fabric and bright tint which scared me, and since Graham found in it nothing absurd, my own eye consented soon to become reconciled. Villette
It was the age of flounces, and this expansive tendency culminated, in the mid-'fifties, in the reign of the crinoline, against which Punch waged for many years a truceless but, as he himself admitted, a wholly ineffectual warfare. Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
With ball dresses of transparent textures, trimmed with flounces of the same, this fontange of ribbon is frequently placed at the edge of the slip worn under the dress. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
From 4.30 in the morning till the last light at night, she said, she had toiled at making cloth dress - skirts, lined up and with two flounces, for seven shillings a dozen. THOSE ON THE EDGE
She was wearing a dress of pale muslin, sari-style, that clung like a gauzy skin but flounced out below the knee above thonged sandals; one ivory shoulder and both arms were bare, and as she swept towards me with a swift graceful stride the flimsy material outlined her figure - gad, it was all there. THE NUMBERS
Friesinger, who had earlier flounced out of the German training camp and moved into a hotel because of the intensity of the media pressure, consoled herself with a gold in the 1,500m, her favourite distance.
Like an old trouper who cannot resist the limelight, he flounced out of a special parade of champions, saying he could not support sport as long as there were drug cover-ups going on.
Right(Sentencedict), don't expect any help from me in future!" he said and flounced out of the room.
Some were crinolined, others came with flounced tiers of fragile tulle embroidered with fantasy motifs. Times, Sunday Times
As I arrive, a hoopoe flounces down to the field alongside and, crest outspread, studiously feasts on worms. Country Diary: Ariège
There he let loose of her arm, and she started to flounce back inside; but before she had taken three steps, he said, `I love you, Annie.
Try dressing your room with wicker baskets, and look for flounced or ruffled curtains, tablecloths and bedding.
What you all made fun of as a "flounce" out of the conversation I saw as frustration at being treated like a piece of dirt. Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it
In a season marked by all manner of flounces and frills, the peplum was a standout. NYT > Home Page
I'm not about to flounce around pouting just because you haven't had time for the social niceties recently! ULTIMATE PRIZES
I exclaimed, and flounced stroppily to my desk.
‘Don't be a pillock,’ snapped Nicol and flounced off.
We have a good time, and I like her so much that it quite verges on loving; but see her in a party, when she manifests herself over five or six flounces of pink silk and a perfect egg-froth of tulle, her head adorned with a thicket of craped hair and roses, and it is plain at first view that _talking_ with her is quite out of the question. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866
She tucked the shirt into the frilly underskirt, worn under the wine colored flounced gypsy skirt.
Right, don't expect any help from me in future!" he said and flounced out of the room.
The comment by conservatism is my antidrug @ 111 is what is called a flounce, the troll is begging to have this sock-puppet banned. Think Progress » The Party of Lincoln falls short on civil rights.
She relished the extravagant fashions of bustles and waterfall backs, and flounced edges on her skirts and frillings on her boots even though these were disfigured by mud during London's frequently rainy days.
Playfully tugging on her brown ponytail, he called for a strapless, mint green gown, a long tulle with many flounces of lace and sheer fabric.
The dressing-table had a frilled flounce; and lying on it was a hand mirror ready to be picked up. THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
She flounced out of my room in a huff.
She flounced about like a mad woman.
However, when fashion decreed crinolines, bustles, and fussy late-Victorian frills and flounces, Australia tried to follow.
Some themes are adopted from the Minoan repertoire - ladies in gaily coloured flounced skirts, acrobatic bull leapers - though they tend to be more stiffly drawn and lack the grace and spontaneity so characteristic of Minoan art.
There's an excess of flounces and frou-frou as swirling skirts, bangles, baubles, ribbons and bow trims come out to play.
As I arrive, a hoopoe flounces down to the field alongside and, crest outspread, studiously feasts on worms. Country Diary: Ariège
Performances of femininity are all about adding on - breasts, makeup, sparkly boas, frills, and flounces.
‘Don't be a pillock,’ snapped Nicol and flounced off.
I opt for a different approach, which involves standing up abruptly at the next stop, pulling my skirt from under his leg sharply, and shooting a disdainful glare over my shoulder as I flounce over to sit on a nearby strapontin. Bribery
But a tall, thin, long-waisted person can revel in flounces and puffs, and bows, and if not too heavily ladened with them, looks far better than with flat straight trimmings. A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding
She tucked the shirt into the frilly underskirt, worn under the wine colored flounced gypsy skirt.
It would also be quite wrong of me to flounce out when I still had work to do. RESCUING ROSE
Collars and cuffs are an antidote to those frills and flounces.
It was a deep blue - rich and velvety, with several flounces and cream lace cuffs.
The door swung open to reveal an auburn-haired teenager, wearing an embroidered, crimson gown, with dozens of flounces, a flattering waist and neck-line with matching scowl.
As the mischievous Adele, Sarah Asmar stomped or flounced around the stage, tossing off her numerous high notes as though they were nothing.
The silhouette here is hourglass, with strong shoulders and hems flaring in sculptural flounces.
There's an excess of flounces and frou-frou as swirling skirts, bangles, baubles, ribbons and bow trims come out to play.
It consisted of the straight robe mentioned above, with an elaborate flounced and layered over-skirt tied on at the waist.
Dancing lessons and ballet get gently ragged, as with a teacher dressed entirely in pink flounces.
Seryna's distaste, while initially borne from Visbec's flounce and flirtatious mannerisms, had grown with an infatuation for Naoise.
She flounced a few inches away, then began tearing strips off the sheet.
Right, don't expect any help from me in future!" he said and flounced out of the room.
It was showered and flounced with cream-colored Chantilly lace that had come from Charleston on the last blockader, and Maybelle was flaunting it as saucily as if she and not the famous Captain Butler had run the blockade. Gone with the Wind
Making an angry noise, she turned and flounced out to the carriage.
The dressing-table had a frilled flounce; and lying on it was a hand mirror ready to be picked up. THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
`Trish, dear, you mustn't flounce off in a huff like this. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
The silhouette here is hourglass, with strong shoulders and hems flaring in sculptural flounces.
The Zebra's stripes are revealed by pulling strips from a white flounced dress.
She flounces home and stands outside of Lyn's house crying.
I had a favorite dress that was my favoritist dress ever," says our heroine as she dances in New York's Central Park in a frock of pink flounces. Hail the New Kid
A market-woman with her jolly brown face and laughing brown eyes -- eyes all the softer for a touch of antimony -- her ample form clothed in a lively print overall, made with a yoke at the shoulders, and a full long flounce which is gathered on to the yoke under the arms and falls fully to the feet; with her head done up in a yellow or red handkerchief, and her snowy white teeth gleaming through her vast smiles, is a mighty pleasant thing to see, and to talk to. Travels in West Africa
It was his joy to recall, for all who came, the days of the bicycle built for two, the peg-top trousers and brown derbies of the men, and of the bustles, flounces and puffed sleeves of the women. Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon
With that, Marylyn flounced off to join her throng of lovesick adorers.
Performances of femininity are all about adding on - breasts, makeup, sparkly boas, frills, and flounces.
With all this she was also very kind to a married sister, who had a large family; but she wore no flowers, flounces, nor finery; her six gowns were of a stuff the Scotch call linsey-woolsey; and so in sixteen years 'services she had amassed what Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852
However, when fashion decreed crinolines, bustles, and fussy late-Victorian frills and flounces, Australia tried to follow.
As for Miss B., she showed up in an elegant goffered flounce…with a frontispiece formed of a single magnificent cauliflower imbedded in mashed potatoes. Mark Twain
Cloth dress-skirts, mark you, lined up with two flounces, for seven shillings a dozen! THOSE ON THE EDGE
I didn't know what last time was, but it had to have been bad because Kara's face colored and she seemed at a loss for words, picking to flounce off in a fury instead.
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.
While Tisci focused on black and oyster, Lacroix used a vast array of colors and along with the rich details of beads, laces, corsets, flounces and satin.
Adrian nodded and watched her friend swiftly flounce out of the room.
That exhibition demonstrated the ways in which Spain's sartorial inheritance—the matador's embroidered bolero, the flounces of Flamenco, the lace veils of Catholicism, the stark outerwear of shepherds—had been absorbed and abstracted into Cristóbal Balenciaga's masterly and vastly influential Paris couture. Between Heaven and Earth
There he let loose of her arm, and she started to flounce back inside; but before she had taken three steps, he said, `I love you, Annie.
She flounced out of the house.
She will flounce and argue when asked to leave the room.
A short, stout person presents a most ridiculous appearance when she attires herself in flounces, puffs, and furbelows until she resembles a wine tun. A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding
Some had neat lace curtains at the windows, while others were adorned with elaborate flounces and ruching. THE LAST TEMPTATION
She was flounced and furbelowed from head to foot; every ribbon was wrinkled, and every part of her garments in curl, so that she looked like one of those animals which in the country we call a _Friezland_ hen. The Coverley Papers
Ash looks at me, a hint of concern on his face while I choke on cookie and watch Elly stand up and flounce dramatically from the room.
As the others flounced and stamped their way through the jungle, Blackburn's equable temper won through.

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