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Examples of swag in a Sentence
the days of endless worrying had taken their toll, and the old woman's face swagged with exhaustion
Recent Examples of swag from the Web
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Celebrate local small businesses and pick up some new reads, be they old classics or fresh off the press, and swag such as posters and more.
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Where: Tough Luck Bar | 1771 NE Dekum St. Portland, OR The Goods: There will be food and drink specials, a Terry Porter NBA Jam machine (with proceeds going to Doernbecher), Blazers swag, prizes and more.
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For Isabell Hutchins the gifts were even more personal — 1996 Olympics swag featuring the event’s mascot, Izzy.
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The classically prepared omelet is appropriate at any hour and can be swagged up with an optional hit of caviar.
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Sure, some students will swag out their rooms with energy-guzzling TVs, game consoles, microwaves, or mini-fridges.
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At the first New York edition of Internapalooza, engineers from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Quicken Loans Inc. greeted hundreds of computer science students with smiles and swag as their firms worked to recruit young talent.
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That Miami swag, that arrogance, so to speak, seems to get resurrected when a group of former Canes get together.
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Arenado passed out ballcaps, T-shirts and other Rockies swag.
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Origin and Etymology of swag
perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian svagga to sway, rock; akin to Middle Low German swacken to rock
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First Known Use: 1530
in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1
See Words from the same yearDefinition of swag
1
: sway 1
2 a
: something (such as a decoration) hanging in a curve between two points : festoon
b
: a suspended cluster (as of evergreen branches)
3 a
: goods acquired by unlawful means : loot
c
: promotional goods or items
- … Ravens gear was selling better than O's swag. I bought one of the cartoon-bird caps …
- —David Simon
d
: goods given to people who attend or participate in an event
- Her handbags … one year were a part of the swag celebrities brought home from the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
- —Karen Martin
4
: a depression in the earth
5
chiefly Australia
: a pack of personal belongings
Examples of swag in a Sentence
The robbers divided the swag.
robbed a bank and hid the swag under the floorboards
Recent Examples of swag from the Web
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Save some credits on Star Wars swag this May the 4th.
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The dining room would also feature Robbins’s likeness—above dinners of asparagus and roast chicken, elegant swags of string lights crisscrossed, and Robbins’s photos were printed on banners suspended in the atrium.
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The whales are the Special Operations Forces Acquisition, Technology and Logistics personnel, for whom defense contractors pull out the good swag from under the tablecloths.
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Don't Even Trip’ gave me a chance to really put some swag on a song.
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More brewery trips means more stamps, and more stamps means more swag.
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For their trouble, the Salzers got swag bags an an Instant Pot.
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That’s more than the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in Boston, which made about $21,224 from sales of its swag last year, both from items sold online as well as a third-party transit-themed store that carries the agency’s merchandise.
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Carolina sent out a tweet to the Loyola basketball Twitter account, then upped the ante with custom swag.
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First Known Use of swag
1660
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