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    Use "swaggering" in a sentence

    swaggering example sentences

    swaggering


    1. Following his direction, I spun round and instantly collided with the crazy bus driver in all his swaggering mass


    2. “I like you Captain Alexei,” she told him on their journey to Aura, “true, you have a vain and swaggering style, but you also have a sharp mind


    3. By swaggering never could I thrive,


    4. Several swaggering Naud taskmasters roved through the huge bay


    5. Swaggering sailors from Cyrodiil were shuddering as they talked about it


    6. As she made her way back through the servants’ camp, she noticed more soldiers moving about than she would normally expect, and some Alit’aren swaggering with self-importance through the firelight


    7. “Huh,” he said, swaggering a bit


    8. I’d be the old muttering guy in the corner of the pub, always staring into the distance and the twenty year old guys, with their giant dicks and swaggering shoulders, would all point at me and say ‘what the fuck is he doing here again? Hasn’t he got anywhere else to go?’ I’d never get married with this secret over my head, I’d never have kids with this guilt lurking over me


    9. Charlie came swaggering in


    10. Beatrice and Zoroastro, Leonardo and Zarnia were swaggering through their bodies as if they were executing the new version of some suburban tango

    11. Swaggering, he was doing signs that I could not understand


    12. The Wazuli girl laughed mockingly, Conan scowled, and then the door opened and Yar Afzal came swaggering in


    13. Every glance, each swaggering movement was an affront


    14. The common people were not perturbed at the fate of the merchants, but they began to murmur when they found that the swaggering Pellian soldiery, pretending to maintain order, were as bad as Turanian bandits


    15. airport towards the terminal with the pilot swaggering


    16. Lousy swaggering bastard, that's him all over


    17. swaggering and "in love with himself


    18. The magician then left the person whose turn it was and made his way towards Mohammad Amin, swaggering proudly in front of all those present


    19. He'd soon learn the speech and swaggering manners that identified archers as a breed of their own


    20. Their colour, once a lively, swaggering blue, has faded to a dull grey: I sat staring up at them

    21. the demon was utterly confident, swaggering, the spirits ambled toward him,


    22. They are in love with all kinds of fakery… as the best way to glorify, and justify their own fake, swaggering egos and inferiority-superiority complexes


    23. "The author of that book," said the curate, "was the same that wrote 'The Garden of Flowers,' and truly there is no deciding which of the two books is the more truthful, or, to put it better, the less lying; all I can say is, send this one into the yard for a swaggering fool


    24. And to add to these swaggering ways he was a trifle of a musician, and played the guitar with such a flourish that some said he made it speak; nor did his accomplishments end here, for he was something of a poet too, and on every trifle that happened in the town he made a ballad a league long


    25. I was so delighted at this that, as I signed the IOU with a swaggering air, I told him casually that the night before "I had been keeping it up with some friends at the Hotel de Paris; we were giving a farewell party to a comrade, in fact, I might say a friend of my childhood, and you know--a desperate rake, fearfully spoilt--of course, he belongs to a good family, and has considerable means, a brilliant career; he is witty, charming, a regular Lovelace, you understand; we drank an extra


    26. Swaggering around like she was invincible


    27. "As the eleventh hour struck, he entered with a swaggering air, attended by two of the most dissolute and reckless of his boon companions


    28. ) He had often noticed some of these men swaggering about the town on Sundays, dressed like millionaires and cigared up! They seemed quite a different class of men from those who worked for private firms, and to look at the way some of their children was dressed you'd think their fathers was Cabinet Minstrels! No wonder the


    29. Some of those blokes who went swaggering about in frock-coats and pot-'ats was just as 'ard up as anyone else if the truth was known


    30. Toad, arrayed in goggles, cap, gaiters, and enormous overcoat, came swaggering down the steps, drawing on his gauntleted gloves

    31. O, my!' he gasped, as he panted along, 'what an ASS I am! What a CONCEITED and heedless ass! Swaggering again! Shouting and singing songs again! Sitting still and gassing again! O my! O my! O my!'


    32. He carried his head very jauntily in the air, had a swaggering style of walking, and was, above all else, remarkable for his extraordinary height


    33. He whined, offering the Senor Capataz half his daily pay for the privilege of being admitted to the swaggering fraternity of Cargadores; the other half would be enough for him, he protested


    34. Even the hardy, swaggering half-breed seemed cowed


    35. "By swaggering could I never thrive,


    36. He was swaggering, shoving, engaged in physical repartee with a fellow male student who was no match for him


    37. Anatole with his swaggering air strode up to the window


    38. Kennedy had many competent people working for her, but their personalities often left a bit to be desired—mostly insufferable wonks, slick politicians, and swaggering cowboys


    39. Mag might be swaggering its way to the local bank for a short-term loan


    40. Every little means, every violence, every raid on a Hooverville, every deputy swaggering through a ragged camp put off the day a little and cemented the inevitability of the day

    41. But I did not care for going there : I saw that one could not get on there without a long purse, and also that the place was crowded with insolent fellows and swaggering young snobs


    42. I was so delighted at this that, as I signed the IOU with a swaggering air, I told him casually that the night before "I had been keeping it up with some friends at the Hotel de Paris; we were giving a farewell party to a comrade, in fact, I might say a friend of my childhood, and you know--a desperate rake, fearfully spoilt--of course, he belongs to a good family, and has considerable means, a brilliant career; he is witty, charming, a regular Lovelace, you understand; we drank an extra 'half-dozen' and


    43. On one side there was swaggering assurance, a desire to conquer, a disdain of obstacles and a desperate confidence that he would attain his object


    44. During his last year at school he came in for an estate of two hundred serfs, and as almost all of us were poor he took up a swaggering tone among us


    45. He was vulgar in the extreme, but at the same time he was a good-natured fellow, even in his swaggering


    46. I was so delighted at this that, as I signed the I O U with a swaggering air, I told him casually that the night before "I had been keeping it up with some friends at the Hôtel de Paris; we were giving a farewell party to a comrade, in fact, I might say a friend of my childhood, and you know—a desperate rake, fearfully spoilt—of course, he belongs to a good family, and has considerable means, a brilliant career; he is witty, charming, a regular Lovelace, you understand; we drank an extra 'half-dozen' and


    47. Petrushka came in swaggering, with a strangely casual manner and an air of vulgar triumph on his face


    48. He was too handsome in a hard, swaggering, black-mustachioed way; he exaggerated to offense the English style of easy dress; he wore a too devil-may-care Panama, a too obtrusive colored shirt and club tie; he wore no waistcoat, and the hems of his new flannel trousers, turned up six inches, disclosed a stretch of tan-colored silk socks, clocked with gold, matching overelegant tan shoes


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    Synonyms for "swaggering"

    swaggering swashbuckling disdainful haughty imperious lordly overbearing prideful sniffy supercilious

    "swaggering" definitions

    having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy


    flamboyantly adventurous