Example sentences for: swank

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

  • That might be my favorite moment in the picture, because Swank's ecstatic expression carries us through the next hour, as Brandon acts out his urban-cowboy fantasies--"surfing" from the bumper of a pickup truck, rolling in the mud, and straddling a barstool with one hand on a brewski and the other on the shoulder of a gorgeous babe.

  • He was ever after known as Dai Swank.

  • 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.

  • A surprisingly swank, handsomely restored 16th-century palace right across from the cathedral.

  • 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.


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