strutted

past tense of strut

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of strutted Just last week, Minnesota strolled into San Francisco, delivered a clinical beatdown and strutted off the floor like brash royalty, reminding the peasants of their place. Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026 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 The Cécred founder strutted out on stage in a plunging black pinstripe blazer jacket paired with matching pinstripe capri pants. Lara Walsh, InStyle, 11 July 2026 America's Next Top Model star Kayla Ferrel Onder once strutted the runway for Tyra Banks' judgment on two different cycles of the reality competition series. Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 23 June 2026 Some new names and familiar faces who strutted their stuff this year included Brooks Nader, Camille Kostek, Alix Earle, Molly Sims and Katie Austin, who is expecting her first child. Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026 The ‘90s supermodel strutted down the runway at W South Beach for Sports Illustrated’s show, no doubt the most anticipated event of Miami Swim Week, which wrapped Sunday. Madeleine Marr june 1, Miami Herald, 1 June 2026 Two days later, supermodel Bella Hadid strutted into the same festival in Puma Speedcat Metallic sneakers. Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 30 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for strutted
Verb
  • Eddy, who missed the incident, is stalked by survivor’s guilt.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Masked men staked out his home and stalked his wife on the street.
    Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • After sitting behind Dillon Gabriel for a season, Moore displayed considerable progress in 2025 and played with more poise than when he was thrust into the starting role at UCLA as a true freshman in 2023.
    Antonio Morales, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Iranian-made Zolfaghar missiles are displayed at Azadi Square in Tehran on August 2, 2026.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Sinéty’s first retrospective, on view now at the Jeu de Paume, marks a growing interest in an artist whose work was barely published, and only twice exhibited, in her lifetime.
    Felix Bazalgette, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Those reporting her firing or the incredulous facts supporting that fiction have exhibited a complete and utter reckless disregard for the truth.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 4 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Fans of Waterbird Coffee were without their downtown Kansas City spot for just a few months before new owners strode in — single origin beans in hand — to save it.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Lovingly, his devoted grandfather lifted him up and the two strode over for a close-up study.
    Patricia Steckler, Baltimore Sun, 27 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • There were many more, though, when his hockey IQ and competitive motor flashed against NHL competition.
    Thomas Drance, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Rookie fifth-round running back Emmett Johnson flashed vision in the opener, finishing with 12 carries for 59 yards and a touchdown erased by a holding call on Hunter Nourzad.
    Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Attendee’s workday blues than completely vanished thanks to Billboard‘s Hip-Hop Rookie of the Year GELO, who swaggered about the stage and ignited the party with the littest cuts off his debut album, League of My Own.
    Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
Verb
  • Ferguson’s lab once showed that a driver who is cool and hydrated will be a few seconds faster than one who is overheating.
    Patrick Iversen, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Saturday night and early Sunday have a 50% chance of showers and thunderstorms, which the chance dropping to 30% during the day Sunday and climbing to a 60% chance late Sunday and early Monday, the forecast showed.
    Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 5 Sep. 2026

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“Strutted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strutted. Accessed 8 Sep. 2026.

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