frisson

How To Use frisson In A Sentence

• That's a grey area, but the very uncertainty injects a nice frisson into the comedy.
• I always feel a slight frisson when I cross over to the south.
• However hard a couple may try to import eroticism into the marriage, particularly in these days of sexual liberation, there is very little which can be done by two consenting adults which has the frisson of the forbidden.
• There was a frisson of excitement in the warm air. Times, Sunday Times
• We love the frisson and the excitement of those feelings, the near hysteria and the intensity. Times, Sunday Times
• Getting lost, easy enough during the day, practically inevitable at night, only jacks up the frisson of tension.
• But there was no frisson, no excitement and certainly no butterflies. Times, Sunday Times
• In other circumstances, though, he enjoys the frisson of fear. Times, Sunday Times
• These are not young people seeking a frisson of excitement from some underground activity. Times, Sunday Times
• But behind the on-air enthusiasm and frisson of illegality, the station's founders were hard-headed realists driven by a clear-sighted aims.