SWAGGER in a Sentence
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29 example sentences for SWAGGER, such as:
1. Don't swagger just because you got the job.
2. He with his hatchet men swaggered out of the bar.
3. Anatole with his swaggering air strode up to the window.
4. A swaggering babe accustomed to strut in his own dooryard.
5. A broad shouldered man wearing a dinner jacket swaggered confidently up to the bar.
2. He with his hatchet men swaggered out of the bar.
3. Anatole with his swaggering air strode up to the window.
4. A swaggering babe accustomed to strut in his own dooryard.
5. A broad shouldered man wearing a dinner jacket swaggered confidently up to the bar.
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Meanings and Examples of SWAGGER
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swagger
v. behave arrogantly or pompously; walk with swaying motion
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1 A terror to the smiling innocence of the villages through which he floats; his swart visage and bold swagger are not unshunned in cities.
2 A little later a rakish young workman, with a goatee beard and a swagger, lit his clay pipe at the lamp before descending into the street.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
Context Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
3 He moved with a restrained swagger which would have been ridiculous had he not been so good-looking and had his handsome face not worn such an expression of good-humored complacency and gaiety.
4 When one is a veritable man, one holds equally aloof from swagger and from affected airs.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES...
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES...
5 His thickset torso was supported by short sturdy legs, always incased in the finest leather boots procurable and always planted wide apart like a swaggering small boy's.
6 Scarlett, looking at him with the affectionate contempt that mothers feel for small swaggering sons, knew that he would be very drunk by sundown.
7 A swaggering babe accustomed to strut in his own dooryard.
8 He was a short, thick-set man, with coarse, commonplace features, and that swaggering air of pretension which marks a low man who is trying to elbow his way upward in the world.
9 Had he been an old man in a humble station of life, instead of a proud and swaggering officer, I should not have minded so much.
10 During his last year at school he came in for an estate of two hundred serfs, and as almost all of us were poor he took up a swaggering tone among us.
11 He was vulgar in the extreme, but at the same time he was a good-natured fellow, even in his swaggering.
12 Anatole with his swaggering air strode up to the window.
13 He was, altogether, as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six, or something less, in the bluchers.
14 He was a dashing, swaggering chap, smart and curled, who had seen half the world and could talk of what he had seen.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
Context Highlight In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
15 He carried his head very jauntily in the air, had a swaggering style of walking, and was, above all else, remarkable for his extraordinary height.
Example Sentence:
1 Don't swagger just because you got the job.
2 The road in life, uphill to swagger, downhill to be timid and overcautious, way to go straight ahead, take a road to overlooking the foot.
3 The road of life is a spiral path, only swagger, flexible turning, can rise to the ideal.
4 It was this: "Pretty thin -- as long a dream as that, without any mistakes in it!" What a hero Tom was become, now! He did not go skipping and prancing, but moved with a dignified swagger as became a pirate who felt that the public eye was on him.
5 The conquering hero didn't simply stride down the street; he used to swagger.
6 With an outsize extravaganza that reached deep into the repertory of classical music and ballet, traversed the sights and sounds of the world's largest geopolitical expanse, soared into outer space and swept across millenniums of history in a celebration of everything from czarist military might to Soviet monumentalism, a swaggering, resurgent Russia turned its Winter Olympic aspirations into reality on Friday night.
7 He with his hatchet men swaggered out of the bar.
8 A broad shouldered man wearing a dinner jacket swaggered confidently up to the bar.