as in excursion
a short trip for pleasure
just a little weekend sashay we took to get away from it all
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as in to strut
to walk with exaggerated arm and leg movements
the svelte young models sashayed down the catwalk with practiced insouciance
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Emma Copley Eisenberg, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2024
Duarte watched Kitara sashay before the audience and lip sync a few numbers.
—Marina Dias, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
EW.com, 17 July 2024
And the longer the contestants sashay the more the room urges them to greatness.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 27 June 2024
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Noun
Love Is an Ex-country, by Randa Jarrar In this fragmented memoir that stitches together Jarrar’s many excursions through America and beyond in her 30s, the writer doesn’t so much drive as saunter across the country—sashay, roll, meander, and play around in it.
—Emma Copley Eisenberg, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2024
Duarte watched Kitara sashay before the audience and lip sync a few numbers.
—Marina Dias, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
Verb
RuPaul is back, back, back, back, back to the Emmys once again, as the legendary drag icon has sashayed to a new TV Academy record for his hosting duties on RuPaul's Drag Race.
—EW.com, 17 July 2024
And the longer the contestants sashay the more the room urges them to greatness.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 27 June 2024
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“Sashay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sashay. Accessed 13 Sep. 2024.
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