sashayed

past tense of sashay
as in strutted
to walk with exaggerated arm and leg movements the svelte young models sashayed down the catwalk with practiced insouciance

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Recent Examples of sashayed At last Sun Ra sashayed onstage. Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026 Dancing With the Stars pro Gleb Savchenko and troupe member Marcquet Hill sashayed their way onto Tuesday's episode of the long-running CBS soap as a couple of hip-thrusting bachelorette party dancers. Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Feb. 2026 Four roaches sashayed across the floor under the three-compartment sink. David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2026 In November, Western wear sashayed onto the stage at Denver Fashion Week for the second year as one of the production’s theme nights, drawing an audience of several hundred people. Suzanne S. Brown, Denver Post, 21 Jan. 2026 The latter's exceptionally epic run during season 5 displayed the kind of reckless flair and horniness not seen on television since Samantha Jones—another PR maven from the mind of Darren Star—sashayed out of our lives with the final Sex and the City film in 2010. Sam Reed, Glamour, 6 Jan. 2026 Orange feather boas sashayed away to the best seats. Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025 Shades of Paula Abdul colored the song as Doja sashayed across the stage with her feathery vocals. Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025 In addition to the plunging neckline, the dress featured an exaggerated bow with floor-length ribbons that sashayed down the front. Julia Teti, Footwear News, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sashayed
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  • Earlier this month, Andrew and Tristan Tate strutted around Washington as MAGA royalty.
    Dan Adler, Vanity Fair, 29 July 2026
  • Later, after 7 1/3 innings of dominant baseball, Skubal strutted off the field to an even louder standing ovation.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 25 July 2026
Verb
  • Masked men staked out his home and stalked his wife on the street.
    Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026
  • The feds’ case alleged that Mangione had stalked the executive for weeks and laid out plans to kill him in a manifesto that lamented greed in the health insurance industry at the expense of everyday Americans’ well-being.
    Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 14 Aug. 2026
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  • As Darrell Royal, the old football coach at Texas once said … one of his players pranced into the end zone and started beating on his own chest.
    Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2026
  • Then Surge zipped through a tunnel and pranced around the ring.
    Ross Mantle, New York Times, 21 May 2026
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  • In April 2025, Kennedy strode onto an HHS stage to announce deals with food makers.
    Stephanie Armour, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Trump strode into office for a second term vowing to avoid lengthy and expensive military entanglements.
    Konstantin Toropin, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026

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“Sashayed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sashayed. Accessed 30 Aug. 2026.

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