Sentence examples for something frilly from inspiring English sources

But she had very classic ideas and she was right in many respects - that some things would ultimately look better on me; like a tailored line, a simple line, would look better on me than something frilly.

Perched on a plate of salad of sorrel, spinach and something frilly like oak-leaf lettuce or frisee, they will have dressing enough with the juices from the pan and a dash of vinegar.

There is something so frilly and fiddlesome about its appearance.

So when my friend Julie told me she was getting a princess cake for her daughter's first birthday, I shunted the term in and out of the revolving door of my mind, figuring she meant something pink and frilly and possibly topped with Barbie wearing a crown.

Do you want something on the frilly side or more of a classic, understated pattern?

It's disco as something sexless, something light and frilly, something for a village fete.

Something non-fussy and non-frilly which can draw attention to one figure asset (but not more than that or you'll look cheap, which is not a Bond girl feature (most of the time)), preferably in a neutral color.

It makes you wonder if the architects had somehow mistaken the critic Reyner Banham's famous dismissal of the embassy's 1960 predecessor on Grosvenor Square -- "monumental in bulk, frilly in detail" -- as something to strive for.

Paula did bring a gun with her to England, one that Ms. Brockes describes this way: "It was smaller than I'd imagined, silver with a pearl handle, like something a highwayman might proffer through a frilly sleeve during a slightly fey holdup".

"One day he said to me that his pink frilly dust ruffle was doing something," she recalled.

You can use your frilly blouses, but puffy sleeved blouses with something screen-printed or blouses with pointy collars and tails are fine too.