Get to know Flounce better with 5 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like frill or ruffle.
Flounce meaning
- To move in a bouncy, exaggerated manner.
- To depart in a dramatic, haughty way that draws attention to oneself.
- To flounder; to make spastic motions.
Using Flounce
- The main meaning on this page is: To move in a bouncy, exaggerated manner. | To depart in a dramatic, haughty way that draws attention to oneself. | To flounder; to make spastic motions.
- Useful related words include: frill, ruffle, furbelow, adornment.
Context around Flounce
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Flounce
- In this selection, "flounce" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mermaid, ronaldo and dramatic stand out and add context to how "flounce" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a dramatic flounce as i and an institutionalised flounce. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "flounce" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with flounce
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
We've seen Cristiano Ronaldo flounce his way out of Hampden. (11 words)
First, because it would resemble a coalition of losers, an institutionalised flounce. (12 words)
The dress featured a ribbed halter neck corset bodice attached to a white mermaid flounce. (15 words)
Another woman jumped to her own TikTok account to for partnering with Mulvaney, urging women to join her “burn bra challenge” and burn their Nike sports tops in protest for hiring Mulvaney to flounce around in their product. (38 words)
I can handle a difference of opinion about our primary candidate, but the ignorant mansplaining was too much (I may have made a dramatic flounce as I walked out). (29 words)
The dress featured a ribbed halter neck corset bodice attached to a white mermaid flounce. (15 words)
Example sentences (5)
Another woman jumped to her own TikTok account to for partnering with Mulvaney, urging women to join her “burn bra challenge” and burn their Nike sports tops in protest for hiring Mulvaney to flounce around in their product.
The dress featured a ribbed halter neck corset bodice attached to a white mermaid flounce.
We've seen Cristiano Ronaldo flounce his way out of Hampden.
I can handle a difference of opinion about our primary candidate, but the ignorant mansplaining was too much (I may have made a dramatic flounce as I walked out).
First, because it would resemble a coalition of losers, an institutionalised flounce.