(v. i.) To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure.
(n.) The act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.
(n.) An ornamental appendage to the skirt of a woman's dress, consisting of a strip gathered and sewed on by its upper edge around the skirt, and left hanging.
(v. t.) To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.
Example Sentences:
(1) There might be a report, a few seminars and then a flouncing off, or just a withering away.
(2) But as soon as the song was over and Keaton flounced offstage, the awkwardness from her performance was overshadowed by Allen's maybe-son Ronan Farrow , resurfacing some old allegations of sexual abuse by Allen: Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) Missed the Woody Allen tribute - did they put the part where a woman publicly confirmed he molested her at age 7 before or after Annie Hall?
(3) Yelling is the easy option in a fight, like flouncing out and slamming the door.
(4) Flouncing out over the sort of benefits cuts that he himself had been enforcing, or trying to enforce, ever since arriving in cabinet?
(5) Those former shadow ministers who have stomped off in a huff and a flounce make a serious error by deserting their posts.
(6) In 1997, shortly before she acquired notoriety by flouncing – drunk and cursing – from a live TV show about the Turner prize, and two years before she failed to win a Turner with My Bed , I interviewed Tracey Emin over coffee at her council flat in Waterloo about the nocturnal and nutritional ups and downs of her weekend.
(7) Those who flounce out on Jeremy Corbyn will not escape blame if Labour crashes | Polly Toynbee Read more This has not always been the friendliest of arenas for Labour leaders – Tony Blair got an enthusiastic pitchforking in his last speech here, while Ed Miliband was heckled in 2011.
(8) She walks back to her chair and looks around, an expression of utter amazement on her face, while Shvedova flounces off.
(9) In spring, cherry trees toss extravagant flounces of blossom.
(10) Britney Spears cut short an interview in tears; where-are-they-now mainstay Preston flounced out when Amstell mocked his wife Chantelle Houghton .
(11) Several years after Alan Partridge flounced off the small screen, Steve Coogan's best-loved character was judged the best scripted comedy for the Sky Atlantic special Welcome to the Places of My Life – marking possibly the first time a tour of Norfolk landmarks has met with such comic acclaim.
(12) Flouncing out of the United Kingdom like this, and anyway it's not as if you're decamping to the Mediterranean, is it?
(13) It's tempting to read this as a sort of corporate-scale flounce, but there are obvious considerations.
(14) Pardew’s problem is that, just as Ben Arfa has come to represent a set of ideals and a style of football mislaid when Kevin Keegan last flounced out, the manager is now regarded as emblematic of the entire ills of the Ashley regime.
(15) Zevon would have taken gleefully to the role of grizzled, geriatric curmudgeon; his approach to his work always had more in common with a detective or a crime writer than with some flouncing showbiz wannabe.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A silk taffeta Balenciaga dress from 1955, with wired skirt flounces.
(17) Publication: Conservative Review Author: When he found himself on the wrong side of Breitbart’s primary-era civil war, the writer Ben Shapiro flounced .
(18) And nor is it in our national interest to have a prime minister who, playing to a domestic and Eurosceptic gallery, flounces out of vital summits and thinks that splendid isolation is a sign of strength, when everyone else can see it is really just a sign of weakness.
(19) The perfect example of this trend is Al Gore, who flounced off in presidential defeat and grew one.
(20) Ukip members love a good feud – and they particularly love the traditional finale, where the arrogant arriviste gets his comeuppance, and flounces off humiliated.
Flounder
Definition:
(n.) A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, of many species.
(n.) A tool used in crimping boot fronts.
(v. i.) To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce.
(n.) The act of floundering.
Example Sentences:
(1) Isolated renal tubules and renal clearance techniques were used to characterize the renal handling of 2-deoxy-D-galactose (2-d-Gal) by the winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus).
(2) The flounder developed renal and pancreatic neoplasms and hepatotoxic neoplastic precursor lesions, demonstrating trophic transfer of sediment-bound carcinogens up the food chain.
(3) The changes in arterial blood pressure and plasma cortisol concentration in response to exogenous angiotensin II (AII) and to manipulation of the endogenous renin-angiotensin system (RAS) have been examined in the flounder, Platichthys flesus.
(4) Both cortisol and thyroid hormones were detected in newly fertilized eggs of the Japanese flounder, Paralichthys olivaceus.
(5) And it has left the international community floundering as it tries to respond to conflicts spilling across the globe.
(6) With England floundering at 111 for five after 29 overs in pursuit of the 301 required for victory, he kept cracking the ball to the boundary in a manner way beyond his colleagues.
(7) DNA sequence analysis of a tandemly repeated gene from winter flounder showed that it can code for one of the two most abundant AFP components in the serum.
(8) According to a paper published in the journal Science on Thursday, large and bottom-dwelling species carry most risk, which means cod, flounder, halibut, pollock, skate and sole from the waters in question could be off limits for years, .
(9) The strategic locations are: Stratford, in east London, which is seen as an emerging Olympic city and centrepiece of the country's bid for the 2012 Olympics; Greenwich and Woolwich, involving new and rebuilt communities near the floundering millennium dome site; Barking, where work has already begun on a new township; Thurrock in Essex, involving a new urban development corporation with sweeping planning powers, and North Kent Thameside, between Dartford and Gravesend, which embraces Ebbsfleet.
(10) Metabolism of benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) in vivo and in vitro was studied using two benthic fish species, English sole (Parophrys vetulus) and starry flounder (Platichthys stellatus), and Sprague-Dawley rats.
(11) This was especially crucial in 2001, as Labor floundered in the face of a manufactured refugee crisis.
(12) We have investigated the volume-activated transport of organic solutes in flounder erythrocytes.
(13) The observation that two classes of neuronal depolarizing agents (veratrine and scorpion venom) cause TTX-sensitive inhibition of basal ion transport establishes that NaCl absorption in flounder intestine is subject to regulation by enteric nerves located in the submucosa.
(14) Zinc levels in windowpane flounder liver were about 6 to 9 times greater than the 4 to 10 ppm levels found in muscle.
(15) High rates of drinking in seawater-adapted, compared with freshwater (FW)-adapted, flounder were associated with raised plasma chloride and osmotic concentrations.
(16) The farmers, led by Peter Kendall, the NFU president, got cold feet last week, but were bounced into hanging in there by Paterson and Downing Street, the latter terrified of another U-turn in the week that saw David Cameron flounder on an energy bill pledge and his chief whip, Andrew Mitchell, resign.
(17) The level of chemical modification of hepatic DNA in juvenile flounder was 2-4 fold lower than that for juvenile sole and concentration of BaP 7,8-diol glucuronide in bile of sole was significantly higher than that in flounder bile, although the rate of formation of BaP 7,8-diol by hepatic microsomes was comparable for both species.
(18) Specifically, the yellowtail antifreeze protein, in contrast to that of the winter flounder, contains a fourth 11-amino-acid repeat and lacks several of the hydrophilic residues that have been postulated to aid in the binding of the protein to ice crystals.
(19) In the second experiment, premetamorphic flounder larvae were treated with two doses of T4 and three doses of T3.
(20) It is one thing that Mark Hughes, the only manager to guide the club to three successive top-half finishes in the top division and the introducer of a charming style of play, now seems to be floundering.