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Example sentences for "frou"

Lexicographically close words:
froth; frothed; frothing; froths; frothy; frough; frow; froward; frowardness; frown
  1. Don't I hear the frou-frou of silken skirts?

  2. She was glad she was looking so well--she wished he might hear the frou-frou of her silken skirt when she walked!

  3. With a silken frou-frou she glides toward him, happy and radiant, for she is in her airiest mood tonight.

  4. The breeze murmured more persistently, and anon with its dreamlike sound there mingled the frou-frou of a woman's skirts.

  5. The hot air vibrated with the constant babel of voices, the frou-frou of silk paniers, and brocaded skirts, mingled with the clink of swords and the rattle of dice in satinwood boxes.

  6. De sodgers put de bagonet frou your crop like a knife frou a pullet's froat!

  7. About me sounded soft sibilations and the frou-frou of silk, while the warm air seemed filled with the sickly perfume of tuberoses.

  8. As compared with Frou Frou, it is much more palatable, and far more powerful, and there is no reason to suppose that it contains anything deleterious to the moral health of the play-goer.

  9. Illustration 'M'] Manager DALY found Frou Frou so popular, that he has given us a second dose of M.

  10. Frou-frou is much more a fancy than a fact.

  11. But Frou-frou is in no sense the true Femme Galante of her day.

  12. It is not Frou-frou that Molière would have handed down to other generations in enduring ridicule, had he been living now.

  13. Frou-frou is a creature that can love, can suffer, can repent, can die.

  14. Then the frou-frou of light silken draperies passed over the soft carpet.

  15. He has yet another five minutes to bestow in listening to the Chaplain's story, yet even as he returns the chronometer to its pocket, his quick ear catches the frou-frou of feminine petticoats outside the door.

  16. A frou-frou of laces, coats with deep skirts, and beribboned trousers would be fluttering airily in the soft May air.

  17. In a brief half-hour the frou-frou of her silken skirts was once more sweeping the court-yard.

  18. Wronskij was just considering that he might get past by making the larger circuit on the off-side, when Frou-Frou was already changing direction and began to pass Gladiator on that side.

  19. Only here and there the gentle frou-frou of a silk skirt, the rhythmic flutter of a fan, broke those few seconds' deadly, stony silence.

  20. Those details Vronsky learned later; at the moment all he saw was that just under him, where Frou-Frou must alight, Diana's legs or head might be in the way.

  21. Frou-Frou was still trembling as though in a fever.

  22. At that moment he knew only that Mahotin had flown swiftly by, while he stood staggering alone on the muddy, motionless ground, and Frou-Frou lay gasping before him, bending her head back and gazing at him with her exquisite eyes.

  23. His excitement, his delight, and his tenderness for Frou-Frou grew keener and keener.

  24. He was calm and dignified as ever, and was with his own hands holding Frou-Frou by both reins, standing straight in front of her.

  25. As though she did not know which foot to put first, Frou-Frou started, dragging at the reins with her long neck, and as though she were on springs, shaking her rider from side to side.

  26. But Frou-Frou drew up her legs and back in the very act of leaping, like a falling cat, and, clearing the other mare, alighted beyond her.

  27. Vronsky had hardly formed the thought that he could perhaps pass on the outer side, when Frou-Frou shifted her pace and began overtaking him on the other side.

  28. Frou-Frou was a beast of medium size, not altogether free from reproach, from a breeder's point of view.

  29. He was flying towards the Irish barricade, Frou-Frou and he both together saw the barricade in the distance, and both the man and the mare had a moment's hesitation.

  30. I love to hear the gentle sound of her voice, sweet and low as the sound of a lute--the frou-frou of her dress as she moves about.


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