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
  • Netanyahu’s government, the most nationalist and religious in Israel’s history, has boasted of establishing over 100 new settlements.
    Joseph Krauss, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Hulu’s Alice and Steve went to some amusing, unexpected places and boasted great work from Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement as the toxic pair of titular BFFs.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 14 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
  • Placed in a jail cell wired with hidden microphones, Jester bragged to his cellmate that when Jackson tried to fight back, he pistol-whipped the rapper and shot him three times in the back.
    Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • There, regional operations manager Kenny Barsalou bragged about the brand inside a plush restaurant booth.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 11 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Rhys gets to play Mayor Tom’s traumatic reactions to being stalked by a Sea Hag to great effect both comedically and horrifically.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Verb
  • Trump strode into office for a second term vowing to avoid lengthy and expensive military entanglements.
    Konstantin Toropin, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026
  • 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
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 22 Aug. 2026.

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