(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.
Material
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.
(a.) Hence: Pertaining to, or affecting, the physical nature of man, as distinguished from the mental or moral nature; relating to the bodily wants, interests, and comforts.
(a.) Of solid or weighty character; not insubstantial; of cinsequence; not be dispensed with; important.
(a.) Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter.
(n.) The substance or matter of which anything is made or may be made.
(v. t.) To form from matter; to materialize.
Example Sentences:
(1) Membranes of this material were filled with islets of Langerhans and implanted in the peritoneal cavity of rats.
(2) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
(3) Significant amounts of 35S-labeled material were lost during the alkali treatment.
(4) Q In radioactive decay, different materials decay at different rates, giving different half lives.
(5) This is due to changes with energy in the relative backscattered electron fluence between chamber support and phantom materials.
(6) Fitch said there was “material risk to the success of the restructuring”.
(7) Results suggest that these resins should be used with some method to compensate for the shrinkage, when used as index material.
(8) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
(9) The base materials caused more pulpal inflammation than the control material, Kalzinol, although by an indirect mechanism.
(10) Second, the unknown is searched against the database to find all materials with the same or similar element types; the results are kept in set 2.
(11) After immunoadsorbent purification, the final step in a purification procedure similar to that adopted for colon cancer CEA, two main molecular species were identified: 1) Material identical with colon cancer CEA with respect to molecular size, PCA solubility, ability to bind to Con A, and most important the ability to bind to specific monkey anti-CEA serum.
(12) The use of an absorbable material may alleviate potential late complications associated with implantation of nonabsorbable materials.
(13) The myocardium was assumed to be composed of a nonlinear viscoelastic, inhomogeneous, anisotropic (transversely isotropic) and incompressible material operating under adiabatic and isothermal conditions.
(14) Of all materials evaluated, Xantopren Blue and Silene silicone impression materials provided the best results in vivo.
(15) In reconstruction of the orbital floor, homograft lyophilised dura or cialit-stord rib cartilage are suitable, but the best materials are autologous cartilage or silastic or teflon.
(16) The purposes of this study were to locate games and simulations available for nursing education, to categorize these materials to make them more accessible for nurse educators, and to determine how nursing's use of instructional games might be enhanced.
(17) An electrogenic sodium-potassium pump appears to contribute materially to the steady-state potential and to certain of the transient potential responses of vascular smooth muscle.
(18) Pure bile gave 32 correct diagnoses (67%) and 14 diagnoses of inadequate material (29%), which contained few nondegenerated cells and made microscopic diagnosis unreliable.
(19) Utilization of inert materials like teflon, makrolon, and stainless steel warrants experimental and possibly clinical application of the developed small constrictor.
(20) The consequences of proved hypersensitivity in patients with metal-to-plastic prostheses, either present prior to insertion of the prosthesis or evoked by the implant material, are not known.