swaggered

past tense of swagger

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of swaggered 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swaggered
Verb
  • Bourdain was attracted to a certain kind of swagger that the kitchen crew boasted.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 7 Aug. 2026
  • As Variety has noted in an extensive drill-down on the city’s film scene, Recife boasted a vibrant silent cinema movement in the 1920s.
    Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • Jason bragged about using emotional manipulation over his dead mother to trick Angela.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 17 July 2026
  • Plenty of others bragged about how their normally less-than-healthy eating habits would protect them from the diarrheal scourge.
    Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2026
Verb
  • Cepo stalked from the center and staggered Urbina with an overhand right, then pinned him to the fence and punched wildly.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Kohberger may have stalked his female victims After the slayings, one of the victims’ roommates Dylan Mortensen told the Moscow Police Department that Goncalves thought she was being followed in the weeks before she was murdered.
    Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 30 July 2026
Verb
  • Madjo then strode into the left channel, PSG’s central defenders scrambling back, only to curl his effort wide.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Prosecutor Joel Seidemann strode briskly up the length of the courtroom’s center aisle with an accordion file under one arm and a line of eight younger colleagues rushing to keep up.
    Laura Italiano, NBC news, 20 July 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

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“Swaggered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swaggered. Accessed 15 Aug. 2026.

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