Example sentences for: swashbuckling

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

  • The latest version of the swashbuckling legend makes critics wax nostalgic for the era "when boyish adventure films still had their innocence" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). This time an aging Zorro (Anthony Hopkins) passes the mask to Antonio Banderas.

  • Because of the tremendous vogue of such images, collected and reworked by Edgar Degas and Claude Monet and Mary Cassatt and then adopted in our own popular culture, we recognize immediately the polymorphous personae of the floating world--the sumo wrestlers, the geisha and her admirers (see Kitagawa Utamaro, The Mosquito Net , circa 1797), and the swashbuckling samurai.

  • A Crusader castle brings swashbuckling to life, so try a trip to the walls of Mytilini or Kos Castle to become a knight of yore.

  • At its base is a swashbuckling statue by William Wetmore Storey of American Colonel Prescott, who gave the famous order: “Don’t fire ’til you see the whites of their eyes.”

  • The movie didn't just suggest that people who fly around in spaceships will be just as swashbuckling, funny, romantic, and--in a word--human as ever.


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