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Example sentences for "flouncing"

Lexicographically close words:
floud; flouds; flounce; flounced; flounces; flounder; floundered; floundering; flounders; flour
  1. Mrs. Penfold, angrily flouncing into a chair, and pirouetting it almost round, so as to look Marion full in the face.

  2. Posted at Greenwich, and dated this morning,' said the Irrepressible, flouncing at her father in handing him the evidence.

  3. Mr Boffin, flouncing on the settle in a forlorn manner, with his hands deep in his pockets, as if his pockets had sunk.

  4. Miss Pelz, with a flash of eyes to their corners, a flouncing of tulle, and then landing ever so lightly on her father's knee and at the immediate business of jerking open his tie.

  5. I heard a negro ask a group of mulatto women, in clean starched gingham dresses, who went flouncing by him on the street one Saturday afternoon.

  6. Veal bro't to market in panniers, or in carriages, is to be prefered to that bro't in bags, and flouncing on a sweaty horse.

  7. Indeed, there was an air of melancholy about her which moved me prodigiously, and seeing Pratt flouncing and bustling in such a manner as denoted her curiosity and jealousy, I dismist her to the house.

  8. To my astonishment returns Pratt presently, flouncing and bridling, and with her a young woman--Heavens!


  9. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flouncing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.