Example sentences for: swashbuckling

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

  • 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.

  • Yet here was the New York Times ' lead reviewer, Janet Maslin, almost alone among major critics in showering praise: "[I]t sustains the gee-whiz spirit of the series and offers a swashbuckling extragalactic getaway ...

  • At the north gate is a statue of Christopher Columbus in a rather dashing pose reminiscent of Errol Flynn in one of his swashbuckling films.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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