But the prospect of a nocturnal encounter with a vampire does lend a certain frisson to the forthcoming journey.

He said he suddenly sensed "a certain frisson" between them.

A little prototypic nerd chic could actually lend a certain frisson, around here.

Yet having endured it, there is a certain frisson of self-congratulation to be had from simply having survived the experience.

Even after 10 years, the bus ride through the West Bank elicits a certain frisson.

There is a certain frisson that can be generated from that, but I don't think you can ever become more than your separate parts.

"I confess to a certain frisson when I look at what the fire has done to so many wicked worshippers of the dollar."

There is nothing lewd about the photograph, but somehow, knowing that the man was willing to strip for his daughter produces a certain frisson.

"There's a certain frisson to inviting bad people."

In fact I rather enjoyed the contrast: it lent a certain anticipatory frisson to the mundane condition of being taken from one place to another.