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Examples of swagger in a Sentence
He copped a plea, ratted out a dozen no-neck pals and swaggered off to prison, leaving South Beach temporarily without a pied piper. —Carl Hiaasen, New York Times Book Review, 22 Feb. 2009
So it is a fight rather than an argument, really—a fight over complexity versus ease, a fight that mostly mimics gang war, which is not so much a vigorous instance of manly bloodletting (though it is that too) as a dustup over prestige: who has the prior right to swagger in public. —Cynthia Ozick, Harper's, April 2007
Sometimes he sauntered through the streets of the old town. He looked with awe at the students of the corps, their cheeks gashed and red, who swaggered about in their coloured caps. —W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, 1915
I, too, would swagger if I'd won first place in the bowling tournament.
hoping to impress the women at the bar, the young man confidently swaggered across the room
Recent Examples of swagger from the Web
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Fahey's swaggering thane falls apart easily once unmoored from his previous stance as a noble defender of Jack Hickey's Duncan.
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The high-concept stage design included not only many huge video screens but also smaller televisions of all sizes that Bono swaggered through and around. ...
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Johnny Depp has made a career out of playing eccentrics, geniuses, drunks and a swaggering pirate named Capt.
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A folk band — members swaggering in their colorful peasant costumes — gives me a private concert.
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Over the years, Jake had swaggered across the stage as a tortured drifter in Picnic and mugged as the mad dentist in Little Shop of Horrors.
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Some remember the elder Kim as an obsessive despot that played a game of nuclear chicken with the West, deepened his nation’s isolation and swaggered around luxury palaces while many of his citizens starved.
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Turning to the retired officers reflects Mr. Trump’s preference for having strong, even swaggering, men around him.
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Origin and Etymology of swagger
probably from 1swag + -er (as in chatter)
Definition of swagger
1a : an arrogantly self-confident way of walking : an act or instance of swaggeringb : arrogant or conceitedly self-assured behaviorc : ostentatious display or bravado
2 : a self-confident outlook : cockiness
Examples of swagger in a Sentence
He limps with a noticeable swagger, flamboyantly waving his cane, semi-ironically mimicking the rap stars who are now his peers. —Matt Diehl, Spin, September 2008
He greeted me with the swagger he's learned since he became a fighter pilot, smiling, his blue eyes glowing. —Matthew Klam, Harper's, February 1999
What a hero Tom was become, now! He did not go skipping and prancing, but moved with a dignified swagger as became a pirate who felt that the public eye was on him. —Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, 1876
He has a swagger that annoys some of his teammates.
Recent Examples of swagger from the Web
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TALLAHASSSEE — Visit Florida got its funding, but may have lost its swagger.
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His confident swagger opened up new spaces for countless other men of color to present themselves in less heteronormative ways.
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TKO Marketing Robert Earl Keen 3 The man known by all three names, Robert Earl Keen, will bring his swagger to the Levitt Pavilion on Friday night.
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Like Jenny’s mensch, the Kia Stinger is a little ballsy, from the cartoonish name to the swagger in its styling to the hatchback body to the rear-drive platform.
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Small of build and full of swagger, Askew is being raised by a mother who demands the best of him, always vigilant even while working three jobs and straining to pay the bills.
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Through four games, Nashville has more goals, more shots on goal and a bit more swagger than Pittsburgh.
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But unlike Perry, who ran the job with back-slapping swagger, Abbott has kept a far quieter profile since taking office in 2015 and allowed other conservatives to seize the spotlight.
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On a night the Cavaliers looked in danger of watching the Eastern Conference finals go even heading back to Boston, Irving's jolt revived the champs and gave them their swagger back.
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Origin and Etymology of swagger
see 1swagger
Origin and Etymology of swagger
see 1swagger
SWAGGER Defined for English Language Learners
swagger
playDefinition of swagger for English Language Learners
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: to walk in a very confident way : to walk with a swagger
swagger
playDefinition of swagger for English Language Learners
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: a way of walking or behaving that shows you have a lot of confidence
SWAGGER Defined for Kids
Definition of swagger for Students
swaggered
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: to walk with a proud strut
Definition of swagger for Students
: an act or instance of walking with a proud strut
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