(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.
Meander
Definition:
(n.) A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries.
(n.) A tortuous or intricate movement.
(n.) Fretwork. See Fret.
(v. t.) To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.
(v. i.) To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.
Example Sentences:
(1) They harvest shellfish standing in the water or meandering through mangrove forests on the shore.
(2) BMWs, Porsches and Land Cruisers meander through Luanda past beggars missing limbs due to the civil war or polio.
(3) As the contest meandered and the stadium went close to quiet there was a jocular moment when Pardew hopped in irritation at a United challenge and the manager dropped his ever-present notebook on the pitch.
(4) This packing loosens towards the middle of the junction until, at its basal extremity, the septa (ridges in replicas) are widely separated and follow independent meandering courses.
(5) The result is a meandering popularism that ignores questions about where the country might end up and fixates on the most cynical of political games.
(6) • Rorbu for four from £140 a night, svinoya.no Grande Hytteutleige, Geirangerfjord Facebook Twitter Pinterest Waterfalls, vertiginous green slopes and a meandering, idyllic waterway explain why Unesco-protected Geirangerfjord is one of Norway’s premier tourist spots.
(7) A drifter, he meandered from city to city, in and out of prison, before arriving in Paradise, where he founded the first branch of the Allah Temple Of Islam in 1930 and set himself up as a black Messiah.
(8) I wanted to write a book that was big and odd and meandering, and I did and it was.
(9) Subtractive feedback models must continuously adjust the axis of rotation throughout a saccade, and they generate meandering, dysmetric gaze saccades.
(10) He had already come close when, gifted the chance by a weak Julian Speroni punch, he lofted a shot into the unguarded net towards the end of a first 45 minutes that had tended to meander.
(11) They meticulously slotted together details to give a painstaking picture of the events that led up to the girls' disappearance, and then away from it; the innocent before and the nightmarish after; the last known seconds of the girls' meandering progress through familiar streets, arms linked, and then the frantic, increasingly heart-rending search that came to an end when the naked and decomposing - and, as we now know, partially burned - bodies of the two friends were found lying together, limbs tangled, at the bottom of a deep and muddy ditch, where the nettles grew tall.
(12) Some meandering evaginations were also observed as, rarely, were small spherical or bulbous projections.
(13) The similarity in size of the openings of T tubules and caveolae and the meandering path of the tubules are sufficient to account for the paucity of observed openings.
(14) The cytoskeleton, marked by antibodies to desmin and filamin is composed of a mainly longitudinal, meandering and branched system of fibrils that contrasts with the plait-like, interdigitating arrangement of linear fibrils of the contractile apparatus, labeled with antibodies to myosin and tropomyosin.
(15) From here the contest meandered for a while on a Shanghai night becoming ever more sultry.
(16) After a deliberately hazy and meandering first half – one that lulls both reader and characters into a false sense of security – the second part of the novel barely breathes.
(17) London 2012 chairman Lord Coe, who has spent the week defending his organisation against blame for the G4S meltdown, said he believed that while the torch meandered through London it would stoke enthusiasm as it had among the millions who have seen it criss-cross the country over the past 63 days.
(18) Inspired by the idea of a city built around an airport (she grew up in Hounslow, near Heathrow), it leaves behind the constraints of any one genre, meandering through R&B-inflected garage (Beach Mode), instrumental grime (Backhand Winners) and Omar S-style stripped-back melodic techno (Eternal Mode).
(19) The endoplasmic reticulum in such cells is reduced to a few (perhaps only one) meandering, broad cisternae, which delimit broad fields of cytoplasmic matrix occupied almost solely by scattered, single ribosomes.
(20) As the match threatened to meander away from United, Giggs finally introduced Van Persie, for a first appearance due to a knee injury since 19 March, and Welbeck, on 66 minutes.