How to Use frisson in a Sentence

frisson

noun
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  • There is a frisson to seeing Tetiaroa for the first time from the air.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2017
  • For swearing to work, there has to be a frisson of taboo about it.
    — Emma Byrne, Time, 23 Jan. 2018
  • The same movie made with grade-Z actors wouldn’t have the same frisson.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The Bowery still had this frisson of being a scary place.
    — Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 6 June 2018
  • But there’s just not enough frisson to that question to drive the movie forward.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Nowhere in the film is there a momentary thrill, nor any frisson of fear.
    — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Do composers try to cause frisson in the film scores you research?
    — Zoë Madonna, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018
  • Looking for just the smallest frisson of spice, or none at all?
    — Beth Segal, cleveland.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • There’s a sense of calm, all right, spiked with a tiny frisson of adventure.
    — Brian J. Cantwell, The Seattle Times, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Perhaps, this year there will be just a little more frisson from the game.
    — Eric Fuller, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • For those who crave the ladylike feel of a dress but long for the frisson of something new, fear not.
    — Natasha Silva-Jelly, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Nov. 2014
  • The piece brought with it pianist Jonathan Biss, with his usual frisson as a bonus.
    — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Africa Without Walls Trade in the four-posters and clawfoot tubs for the frisson of fly tents and true wilderness.
    — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Church, or at least First Parish, was not the place where a person in Concord could find this kind of frisson.
    — Sarah Blackwood, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Without the frisson of face-to-face confrontation, what’s the point of this town-hall showdown?
    — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2020
  • There’s also the frisson of danger that lurks and is very real.
    — Beth Segal, cleveland, 1 Oct. 2021
  • But the play has a grim frisson of fresh resonance today.
    — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2023
  • And in the perfect chiaroscuro, this is a woman who thrives on the frisson of impossible love.
    — Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 8 June 2019
  • Lockdown was scary from the get go, but those initial weeks had the frisson of disruption.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Beyond the railing, water (ocean, sea or lake) surges and, with a bird, gives the image a frisson of drama.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
  • There aren’t many characters besides Chloé and the twins, which adds to the frisson late in the movie when the great Jacqueline Bisset makes her entrance.
    — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2018
  • What the monarchy’s younger set offered readers was that frisson of glamour, wealth, and blinding fame that they had been starved of.
    — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2022
  • These messages from the past can cause a frisson when read by visitors today.
    — National Geographic, 3 Sep. 2019
  • But throughout the drama, the deal elicited a frisson of excitement from a wide swath of people for a range of reasons.
    — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • This gives the movie an extra frisson, adding to its portrait of a self-destructive woman.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2016
  • There’s a frisson, but little other value to the encounter.
    — Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The more strenuous the Soviet efforts to suppress a work, the greater its frisson of the forbidden.
    — Sophie Pinkham, The New Republic, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The casting of Taylor and Burton, who could squabble with the best of them (and who married and divorced each other twice), only adds to the frisson.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The frisson lies in the touches: duck wings instead of chicken, served jerk-style with cilantro pesto; a za’atar crust for the rack of lamb; harissa glaze on a Kurobuta pork chop special.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2022
  • Throwing ideas around invites a frisson of electricity to pass between you and those close to you.
    — Debbie Frank, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2024

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