Example sentences for: swagger

How can you use “swagger” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the dohyo, a raised mound of hard clay some 4.6 m (15 ft) in diameter under a large suspended Shinto-roof-style canopy,toss salt across the dohyo to purify it of evil spirits, swagger around, and commence the all-important “psyching-out” of the opponent.

  • Conley's writing voice even has something of a macho swagger, and once in a while it hits a false note, as if she were building her broad case against the medical profession in order to get back at Gerry, the vulgar meanie.

  • As Branch notes, "King and the movement's established leaders sounded ponderous against Malcolm's avenging swagger."

  • 3) "[I]n its visual heart of hearts [the film] loves the style and swagger of the Nazis" (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ). Playing a fellow prison inmate of Norton's, newcomer Guy Torry catches the reviewers' eyes.

  • (I don't know if Walken also plays the horseman sans head; if he doesn't, someone has done a hilarious job of recreating his chesty swagger.)


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