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Example sentences for "frills"

Lexicographically close words:
frigore; frigorific; frill; frilled; frilling; frilly; frind; frinds; fringe; fringed
  1. To supplement her charms, The frills that once she wore behind She fastens on her arms.

  2. I can see her now looking at Tyson over the frills on her shoulder, with her thin crooked little mouth smiling slightly.

  3. A spark flung from the burning draperies settled on the wide flapping frills of her night-gown.

  4. And more I did beside--I cut two slices of ham with frills on them.

  5. It had frills around it and holes in between--just like Elsie's crochet doily that she keeps on her best stand-table.

  6. She is a pretty, kittenish little thing, deathly afraid of cock-roaches and caterpillars, devoted to frills and fetching furbelows, and fond of taking picturesque poses in the moonlight with the slinky greyhound.

  7. If Phil saw her only in the daylight and called her plain Eliza, and could remember that she's a little 'fraid cat whose chief interest in life is frills and fetching furbelows, he wouldn't be in any danger.

  8. Now, in dem days, dey have frills 'round de beds, dey wasn't naked beds like nowdays.

  9. Dey puts dis puncheon under de beds and de frills hides it, but I's nussin' a little boy in dat room and I crawls under dat bed and drinks out of de puncheon.

  10. You know the kind: pretty nigh old enough to be a coal-barge, but all rigged up with bunting and frills like a yacht.

  11. We run up abreast of Dillaway's, putting on all the fancy frills of a liner coming into port, and there was Ebenezer and a whole crowd of wedding company down by the landing.

  12. The lace-trimmed frills of a white cambric petticoat peeped under the hem of her green cloth skirt; below there was a glimpse of slender, crossed ankles in brown silk hose, and the little brown shoes laced with wide silk ties.

  13. What delicious laughter trills, As "rude Boreas" oft wills, Just to flutter frocks and frills All askew!

  14. And O, what dainty maids you spy, What tasteful toilets you descry, What symphonies in frills and lace, On Henley Bridge!

  15. Angular ladies in gloomy aesthetic coats, Maudle and dawdle the afternoon through; Graceful girlettes in the shortest of petticoats, Flutter their frills as they walk two-and-two.

  16. First Name Friends Though some may yearn for titles great, and seek the frills of fame, I do not care to have an extra handle to my name.

  17. And who has every day to face a finer round of care Than buying frills and furbelows for little folks to wear?

  18. We had a big wedding and she wore a white dress wid two frills on it.

  19. On top of that I had a white bonnet that had frills and tucks all over it.

  20. David could see her thin bent figure--the sharpened delicacy of the emaciated face set in the rusty black net cap which was tied under the chin, and fell in soft frills on the still brown and silky hair.

  21. But a lesson not less instructive than that taught by the tube-frills of the Clavagella, is inculcated by the valves of the Dione.

  22. You observe that on its outer surface there are several foliated expansions of the shelly substance, surrounding it like so many frills at pretty regular intervals.

  23. Let him who starves to buy the food For his soul's comfort find her good, Nor chide the frills and furbelows That are the prettiest things she knows.

  24. I thought maybe it would when I heard you were taking the post-graduate frills in the Harvard Law School.

  25. The daisies white are nursery maids with frills upon their caps; And daisy buds are little babes they tend upon their laps.

  26. She always had a passion For wearing frills about her neck in just the daisies' fashion.

  27. I don't say that Ari would tell lies, but he puts a whole lot of fancy frills on his stories and fixes 'em up gorgeous.

  28. The pink-and-white flowered comforter on the bed stirred, and two plump arms, with frills of lace falling backward, raised up like sturdy monoliths in the stretch that accompanies a yawn.

  29. Illustration] Then quick she dresses up again In all her frills and lace, And out she runs, to trip along With air of dainty grace.

  30. It's my new cap," and Dolly smiled from beneath the lacy frills and rosebud decorations of a dainty new cap that Trudy had just made for her.

  31. They wear old flannel shirts and disreputable hats, and they eat their lunch any old way, without any frills or fuss.

  32. It had three frills round the bottom and various irrelevant ribbon-bows.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "frills" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bravery; duplication; embellishment; expletive; extravagance; fat; festoon; filling; finery; frill; frippery; fuss; gaiety; gilt; gingerbread; luxury; overlap; padding; paste; pinchbeck; prolixity; redundancy; superfluity; tautology; tinsel; trappings; trickery; trumpery; verbosity