How to Use swagger in a Sentence

swagger

1 of 3 verb

• I, too, would swagger if I'd won first place in the bowling tournament.
• The buck stopped, stared, detected no threat and turned and swaggered away.
  — Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 16 Oct. 2019
• On the Brighton stage, graduates danced and ran and swaggered.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2019
• Katy Perry was swaggering about in a garish new hat.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2025
• The 6-foot-5 redshirt senior had a great time swaggering in the gold and black threads.
  — Rolando Rosa, ajc, 1 Sep. 2017
• There’s something about plaid pants — collegiate yet cool, nerdy yet swaggering, prim yet slightly punky.
  — Sharon Graubard, courant.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• The Western bird is famous for a mating dance in which males puff out their chests and swagger around breeding grounds called leks.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2022
• And yet there was never a sense of some behemoth swaggering to victory.
  — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 7 July 2019
• No politician in history, though, has managed to swagger through an entire term in office.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2022
• With his swaggering ease in the spotlight Jones seems to invite such comparisons.
  — Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 11 Oct. 2013
• Die a hero, or live long enough to become Gen Z’s swaggering grandfather.
  — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 28 Dec. 2025
• Woods used to be the world's most daunting sports goliath, at once swaggering and stony, admired by some, resented by more, feared by all.
  — Bill Plaschke, latimes.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Two swaggering outlaws roll into a mining town and unleash a wave of cruelty.
  — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2026
• Women swaggered by in tights, leatherette and heels that could dent metal, brushing past a vending machine that spits cigarettes.
  — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2018
• Bo Nix had every reason to swagger into his freshman season at Auburn.
  — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 14 Sep. 2020
• Singers and rappers could be swaggered out superheroes or African Queens, depending on the vibe.
  — refinery29.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• Many drivers today have not experienced the rewards of a big, swaggering sedan.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
• Don the swaggering employee needs to learn a lesson about gender identity.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2026
• This skinny kid from Norman, Oklahoma, swaggering up and down the court.
  — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 9 Jan. 2026
• Jeffrey Dean Morgan shows up to chew some scenery as a swaggering cowboy of a government agent.
  — Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 12 Apr. 2018
• The latest batch are all swaggering tributes to the ’70s—a decade when the patterns were brash, the knits were plush, and the fits were flattering.
  — Yang-Yi Goh, GQ, 26 Apr. 2018
• Cunningham shimmied her shoulders and swaggered toward the MU bench.
  — Aaron Reiss, kansascity, 18 Feb. 2018
• Our Typhoon swaggered into sylvan Ann Arbor dressed in inky, Texas-tea black.
  — Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 19 May 2020
• The advertisement opened with a backside shot of a man clothed in Levi’s jeans, a western shirt and leather gloves, swaggering up to a pair of saloon doors.
  — Jack Armstrong, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
• After all those swaggering herbal notes faded, tasters said Roku finished with breezy floral qualities—lavender and rose.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 May 2026
• Yet, as his swaggering senior advisers were keen to point out to journalists here in Brussels, he's proved everyone wrong.
  — Luke McGee, CNN, 17 Oct. 2019
• Johnny Depp has made a career out of playing eccentrics, geniuses, drunks and a swaggering pirate named Capt.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 15 May 2017
• Other than that, this part of scouting season is largely devoid of swaggering, Sonny Weaver-type moments.
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• Into which world swaggers one Marion Lee Thompson, who then does what only Thompson can do.
  — Mark Mahaney, Smithsonian, 10 July 2019
• On it, Sombr elevates the bedroom pop of his earlier work, giving it a more muscular, swaggering sound.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 22 Aug. 2025

swagger

2 of 3 noun

• He has a swagger that annoys some of his teammates.
• Louisville won and played with swagger.
  — Payton Titus, Louisville Courier Journal, 13 Nov. 2025
• Snoop’s recipes bring flavor and swagger to the kitchen.
  — Francesca Krempa, StyleCaster, 11 Nov. 2025
• From his end zone dances to his fashion, the man has swagger for days.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
• Most small dog breeds have the heart of a lion and the swagger to go with it.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Woman's Day, 2 Feb. 2023
• Jack has a lot of that kind of swagger and confidence.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 28 May 2026
• His swagger is apparent in his play on the field and his speech off it.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 24 July 2023
• That swagger is part of the appeal for investors.
  — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
• Raphael is tall, with dark, curly hair and the easy swagger of a man who has spent his life onstage.
  — Alex Abramovich, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
• Ford is sexy, full of posturing and swagger.
  — Dave Schilling contributing follow, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026
• That’s an issue for a team that plays its best baseball with a healthy amount of swagger.
  — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
• The fighter, a scrawny guy whose swagger looks put-on, hides his face in a monkey mask.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2024
• This is a rich sonic palette, as much mood and mystery as swagger.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 Aug. 2025
• To have Walton bring his unique blend of swagger to the game is awesome.
  — Leia Mendoza, Variety, 3 Dec. 2025
• Cardi’s jokes and swagger never clock out.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2025
• My persona is part doctor and artist with a twist of hip hop swagger wrapped into one.
  — Shivani Vora, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• This bullpen has beaten the swagger out of a team that for more than a decade has been built on such swagger.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
• The third-person thing is a sign of supreme confidence and swagger.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 27 July 2023
• But Beth’s finest show of character comes through not in words but swagger.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2023
• The offense, though, continues to hunt for its stride and swagger.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2022
• Could a single other letter have the same swagger?
  — James Doubek, NPR, 17 Mar. 2026
• Sylvester—Sly—all full of swagger and light, mansplaining at her like Wole might.
  — David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
• The old Miami was built on swagger.
  — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2026
• And a giant title card lands with the swagger of a studio tentpole.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 27 Apr. 2026
• This was definitely a must-win for us for our mojo, for our swagger.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 28 Jan. 2024
• As the season concluded, York seemed to get some of his swagger back.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 12 Aug. 2023
• Sanders brought his unapologetic swagger to a program that had been in the dumps for decades.
  — Eddie Pells, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
• At the top, Amorosi flexes with a howl, the kind of swagger that comes with having been there, done it.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2023
• Ireland gained swagger and became a self-confident place that could show the world.
  — Llewellyn King, Twin Cities, 26 Feb. 2026
• The straight, wide-but-not-too-wide pants add a sense of swagger, and in light tan, harmonize with the rest of the rig.
  — Aleks Cvetkovic, Robb Report, 21 Jan. 2023

swagger

3 of 3 adjective

• The swagger Chelsea had not seen for so long was back.
  — Cerys Jones, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2026
• Daisy, the vengeful orphan with more swagger than sense.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 27 May 2026
• But the bar doesn’t rely solely on the freshness of its shellfish to give it swagger.
  — Kate Dingwall, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
• Pinkins has swagger, wit, and the confidence of a performer who knows how to reel an audience in by underplaying.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2026
• Stella crossed the street and loitered outside the store window displaying haughty mannequins flaunting swagger coats.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
• For generations the city has been a hub of Black music plagued by rampant whitewashing and swagger jacking.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 20 Mar. 2026
• Your swagger and larger-than-life personality are infectious.
  — Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 16 July 2026
• Impossibly cool at 60 years old, Reznor is all swagger, with his soaring, sneering vocals sounding as strong as his first decade recording.
  — William Earl, Variety, 17 Feb. 2026
• For a guy who claimed to be insecure about his vocal prowess, Ace is all swagger, peacocking his way through the city with a fistful of dollars and wicked ladies pursuing him.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
• In Iowa State’s five wins, QB Rocco Becht has hung tough in the pocket but also showed swagger extending plays.
  — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
• The swagger Sasaki has shown has been missing from veteran relievers Blake Treinen and Tanner Scott.
  — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 27 Sep. 2025
• On TikTok or Instagram, a gesture once used to symbolize doctrine or wisdom starts to look like confidence, coolness, even swagger.
  — Denva Gallant, The Conversation, 8 July 2026
• These songs have a magnificent swagger — again, a swagger reminiscent of the world’s greatest swaggerers from Elvis to Freddie to Prince.
  — Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 26 Mar. 2026
• Getty Images There are few rock bands in this day and age that have the same vibrant swagger and synergistic chemistry that Queens of the Stone Age continue to showcase.
  — Quentin Thane Singer, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
• Their semi-final second-leg comeback victory against Arsenal was arguably the most convincing embodiment of Lyon at full tilt, in full industrial swagger mode.
  — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 23 May 2026
• But the sheer relentlessness of its joke-cracking bodes well for future, riskier enterprises — as, for that matter, does the natural spark between Matarazzo’s repeatedly foiled would-be swagger and Giambrone’s disarming mama’s-boy act.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 Mar. 2026
• This time around, under Rupert Goold’s actor-forward direction and with Guirgis’s distinctive voiciness, the story has more in common with the canine of its title — there’s a little more swagger, sweetness, and slobber, a little more desire to please.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2026