Example sentences for: frilly

How can you use “frilly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Loughrin's insights run from the profound ("I realized how much Patsy's frilly, feminine decorative taste clashed with that of the young college students") to the truly anguished ("I passed a spiral staircase on my right, shuddering as I realized these were the same stairs where Patsy claimed to have found the ransom note that fateful morning after Christmas").

  • "That twirler's frilly little underth ...

  • Sir John formally announced that he was neither stuck-up nor a sissy-pants, while sniffling and blowing his nose into a frilly lace handkerchief."

  • The arrival of white, frilly panties caused a stir, especially since many were "open drawers"--that is, pants made as two separate knee-length legs, hung on a single drawstring around the waist but with no fore-and-aft crotch seam.

  • Lewinsky, slathered in makeup and dressed in what presumably is intended to represent a designer outfit, clutches a frilly cocktail and gabs away in Valley speak: "So, I'm like, yuh, and he's like, duh, and I'm like thinking about a new car."


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