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How to use frilly in a sentence

11 example sentences · adjective

Frilly means having frills; frilled. Example: “She was all got up in the most ridiculous frilly dress.”

Examples of frilly by meaning

adjectiveHaving frills; frilled.

  • Grant was dressed up as Little Bo Peep and had on a huge, frilly skirt that was held out with a hoop at the bottom.2006 March 7, Christian Burch, The Manny Files, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 140
  • The one she showed me has this frilly white skirt with blue bows on it.2012 November 6, Nora Roberts, The Perfect Hope, Penguin, →ISBN, page 83

More sentences with frilly

  • She was all got up in the most ridiculous frilly dress.From the entry get up
  • There’s a nice frilly border around the picture frame.From the entry border
  • Get your pink frilly frocks out, zhuzh up your platinum locks.2013 February 21, Hilary Mantel, “Royal Bodies”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 4. From the entry zhuzh
  • A pair of frilly knickers fly out from the leg and I laugh.2013, Claire King, chapter 19, in The Night Rainbow, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 217. From the entry floof
  • He snatched Granny Glee's frilly pink hat with his little feet.2012, John Sazaklis, Candy Store Caper, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry yoink
  • I think a frillier, flouncier dress might be in order tomorrow, though.2012, Rebecca Dean, The Shadow Queen: A Novel of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 133. From the entry flouncy
  • Weekly cover story, devolved into patronizing, parasitic parodies of "pink, frilly bedrooms."2010 October 10, Evelyn McDonnell, “Book Review: 'Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution' by Sara Marcus”, in Los…. From the entry eat someone alive
  • It's gone ten, the place is chocka, and Günter's two saisonnières - one skinny girl in Hamlet black, the other plumper, frillier and blonder -- are busy with orders.2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 141. From the entry chocka
  • And current manfiction certainly gives women a better deal than they got in the pulps of yesteryear, when most were presented as barracuda debs in frilly negligees.2008 October 12, Stephen King, “Who Says Real Men Don't Read?”, in Entertainment Weekly. From the entry manfiction

Meaning of frilly

  1. adjective Having frills; frilled.
  2. adjective Over-elaborate or showy in character or appearance.

Full definition of frilly

Questions about frilly in a sentence

How do you use frilly in a sentence?
Frilly is used as an adjective. For example: “She was all got up in the most ridiculous frilly dress.”
What is a short sentence with frilly?
“There’s a nice frilly border around the picture frame.”
What does frilly mean?
Frilly means having frills; frilled.

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