as in strutting
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 sashaying
After her victory, news cameras captured her sashaying in blue while pumping her arms in jubilation.
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Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 6 May 2026
Kim had a major runway moment during Audigier's Fall 2007 show, sashaying in this floral minidress and an on-the-moment arm cuff.
—Emily Kirkpatrick, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
Understand Substorms The aurora isn’t sashaying at full blast all night.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Outside, 27 Jan. 2026
RuPaul Charles is sashaying to the big screen with the first feature film from the RuPaul’s Drag Race universe.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
RuPaul’s Drag Race is sashaying to the big screen with a camp runaway train thriller as the MTV drag queen competition series continues to expand its storytelling universe.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 6 May 2026
Kim had a major runway moment during Audigier's Fall 2007 show, sashaying in this floral minidress and an on-the-moment arm cuff.
—Emily Kirkpatrick, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
Understand Substorms The aurora isn’t sashaying at full blast all night.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Outside, 27 Jan. 2026
RuPaul Charles is sashaying to the big screen with the first feature film from the RuPaul’s Drag Race universe.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
RuPaul’s Drag Race is sashaying to the big screen with a camp runaway train thriller as the MTV drag queen competition series continues to expand its storytelling universe.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sashaying
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The current high price of gasoline, thanks to the Iran entanglement, certainly won’t deter owners and collectors from strutting their stuff.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
1 June 2026
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Videos and images from the show depicted humanoid robots strutting down the catwalk, posing beside models, and performing synchronized choreography.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
30 May 2026
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Some don’t have any visible Ferrari branding at all – much as how, minus its prancing horses, the Luce doesn’t share much of its maker’s DNA.—
Alistair Charlton,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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Connecticut’s top Banana will be dancing and prancing from the ballpark to the ballroom.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
13 May 2026
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He’s entranced by his discovery even though there appears to be some kind of ominous presence stalking the space, too, never quite caught on-camera.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
29 May 2026
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Also in 1971, Cioffi starred as Peter Cable, a murderer stalking Jane Fonda’s call girl character, Bree Daniels, in the classic crime thriller Klute.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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At the French Open Tuesday, the four-time Grand Slam champion staged an outfit reveal once again, striding out for her first-round match against Germany’s Laura Siegemund wearing a black corset and matching pleated, cascading skirt that skimmed over the clay.—
Ava Wallace,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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Powell McCormick, who seems to be one of the busiest women on the planet, is up and striding off to her next appointment.—
Ellie Austin,
Fortune,
27 May 2026
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“Sashaying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sashaying. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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