Example sentences for: swank

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

  • I first met JFK Jr. at a fancy party for his magazine in a swank Fifth Avenue apartment.

  • Chloë Sevigny pulls off some uncanny transitions in Boys Don't Cry , and they're all subterranean: Great as Hilary Swank is, it's Sevigny's performance that really captures the mystery at that movie's core.

  • The joy is in watching the actor transform, and I don't just mean Swank: I mean Teena Brandon playing Brandon Teena--the role she has been longing for her whole life.

  • An actress named Hilary Swank gives one of the most rapturous performances I've ever seen as the cross-dressing Brandon Teena (a k a Teena Brandon) in Kimberly Peirce's stark and astonishingly beautiful debut feature, Boys Don't Cry . The movie opens with Teena being shorn of her hated female tresses and becoming "Brandon," who swaggers around in tight jeans and leather jackets.

  • The main commercial street is, inevitably, Corso Andrea Palladio, lined with the master’s elegant mansions (today converted to major banks, swank stores, and cafés) and others by disciples; his simple home was at no.


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