How To Use Swagger In A Sentence

Yeah, he's a pop genius, but his cool, affable swagger and clever repartee are the perfect complement to the more extroverted, outgoing personalities of Dahle and Ms. Case.
The swagger was back and Swansea were guilty of fewer sloppy passes. Times, Sunday Times
The Man has a confident swagger - is that indicative of where you are right now? The Sun
The decision made, he turned and swaggered out of the door, idle hands swinging and dangling as he strode manfully toward the stairwell.
Even though you're not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, reliable pirate.

Nevertheless, he captures the music's masculine swagger right from the very first chord.
I can get my Bowie swagger out! Times, Sunday Times
But the picture built up in the media of a swaggering and callous man, was wrong. Times, Sunday Times
He has that confidence and swagger about him. The Sun
The result is a setting that’s clearly modelled on an American high school but is populated almost entirely by kids and teachers with decidedly European accents — even when they have names like Brad and are swaggering around in letterman sweaters like an extra in Grease. The Curiosity of Chance
The third patron to enter the bar was a Thick Dublin Jackeen, who swaggered into the bar and yelled, "Alrigh' Mate, give us a pint o'cider. Hey,is tha' Jaysus over thair?" The barman nodded, so the Jackeen told him to give Jesus a pint of cider too.
They swaggered down the street, hooking on each other.
His intense, swaggering stage presence and masterful violin playing has won him both fans and critical acclaim all over the world.
Even the more rowdy numbers managed to combine hip-thrusting, frilly-shirted swagger with no hint of tumescent, swollen subtext. Times, Sunday Times
A half-admiring, half-nervous public quickly dubbed his swaggering and very personal style of government the Dadis Show, which was the name of a television programme in which the captain himself questioned and berated miscreants. The Economist: Correspondent's diary
How do you keep your guests awake during the slow bits, until the big hitters swagger up to feign surprise and humility? Times, Sunday Times
Swaggering along in their check suits, gold chains, lumpy rings and billycocks, they were pointed out by name or exploit.
After dinner, Roger appeared in military fatigues, complete with hat, sunglasses, jackboots, and swagger stick.
They evidently mistook this brandy-bibbing as a swaggering habit of mine; whereas I was honestly prescribing for myself what had been recommended to me as the best preventive of cholera.
Can this city survive without its traditional battalions of colorful characters swaggering through saloons and newspaper columns?
Our swaggering demon is resolute until agile Laksman climbs on his foe's bent thigh to deliver a walloping strike that sends Intorachit reeling.
A broad shouldered man wearing a dinner jacket swaggered confidently up to the bar.
I can get my Bowie swagger out! Times, Sunday Times
The band's R&B dalliances push the song 'n' the band forward from simple slash 'n' burn to a cocky swagger.
Does this swaggering rock front man suffer from the same moment of unease? Times, Sunday Times
He's too shagged to swagger, but he'll stroll and stare.
‘There's the swagger, and that ever-present stogie,’ it reads.
Bells you gave me, bells of victory, bells of merriment, yellow and green; cloches clashing, swaggering braggarts, helmets agleam coppery red.
They strutted and swaggered in Creolestyle, played the hottest of jazz and slowed to a dead march as the tempo changed.
He swaggered as he walked towards her, then sat down on the bench.
But the picture built up in the media of a swaggering and callous man, was wrong. Times, Sunday Times
He came in swaggering, but, by George, he went out scratching! Three Times and Out: A Canadian Boy's Experience in Germany
He knew the get-up, the drill, the movement, and the swagger.
As the world prospered behind their backs, this insular strain of American metastasized into swaggering jingoes full of Cold War machismo, content to wave the flag and "Go for the gold. Mike Farrell: The Ugly America
Onlookers used to the swagger of pre-Red Millbrook days hardly recognised the dimmed round-shouldered slinker as the wolf of the tracks, the sexual predator that had set alarmed mothers scurrying protectively after their chicks. The Elvis Latte
It will be nice to play it over a tour where we can kind of get a little swagger to it. The Sun
It's all about this sexual power, the drape, the swagger.
The approach requires a devil-may-care swagger, a thick skin and also thick-skinned editors, who seem to be in short supply.
But even the most foolish swaggerer of them could not call milksop a man who could outride, outleap, outfence, outhunt him; who could drive the four horses of his coach to London and back at such a pace and in such a manner as made purple-faced old stage-coach drivers shake their heads with glee, and who, in a wrestling-match, could break a man's back at a throw if he chose to be unmerciful. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality
He strode with the swagger of a military commander, surveying his troops, evaluating his options.
Could have used some sort of verbal discussion from Jack Swagger pre-match to express what this title opportunity means to him. PWTorch.com
From the barmily romantic ‘Just Like Fred Astaire’ to the anthemic ‘We're Going To Miss You ’, this is indulgent, swaggering and even survives Sinead O'Connor on ‘Vervaceous’.
Do you paint it as high farce, or just go for a swaggering thrill ride? Christianity Today
You almost expected the former miners' leader to appear in George Street to lead the hundred or so striking firemen who gathered and swaggered along the road wearing their flaming caps and blasting the air with hooters.
English - or, to be more accurate, American - is the one and only language of rock 'n' roll's strut and swagger.
The brother's got the boastful swagger of your favorite rapper, the entrepreneurial instincts of a street hustler and a pen as swift as his tongue is sharp.
I can get my Bowie swagger out! Times, Sunday Times
“Why, well,” said the youth, “if the abbot is a man of respectability becoming his vocation, and not one of those swaggering churchmen, who stretch out the sword, and bear themselves like rank soldiers in these troublous times.” Castle Dangerous
A broad shouldered man wearing a dinner jacket swaggered confidently up to the bar.
Uriah wheezes a laugh and swaggers back to the picnic table for more wine and cheese.
He maintained his arrogant swagger when he limped around the Press Centre but he looked haggard. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
Now there is a real swagger about their squad going into the new campaign. The Sun
However, it is Ejiofor's film as he swaggers around in heels or confronts the ghosts of the past with equal aplomb.
Australian TV executives were wary of such a project and its unabashed depiction of such swaggering women but Riley and Turner persevered and eventually won the day, delivering a classy, confident spoof of suburban sybarites.
I just can't stand the man's style, the way he swaggers and struts and smirks and the way he looks sly and deceitful and the way Americans can't see it.
Viewed from a distance, it would be easy to imagine that these little girls, all sass and swagger, are grown-ups.
Sure, the track picks up a new tone: sass and swagger, winking and wiggling.
He was swaggering, they told me, about the town in his old regimentals, every pomp of the foreign soldier assumed again as if they had never been relaxed in all those yean of peace and commerce. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
The bombast, condescension, arrogance and swagger all seems slightly silly in retrospect.
There was a stagger rather than a swagger about Johnson in recent years.
This is often accompanied, in drink, by a strutting, swaggering bumptiousness.
They're confident, swaggering and ready to crush opposition with a casual flick of the tongue. Times, Sunday Times
She was literally effortless the way she could bang on an outfit and just swagger about. The Sun
Mezzo Marie Lenormand was sweetly swaggering as the Fox, who woos and wins the Vixen; baritone Joshua Bloom was pure testosterone as Harašta; and mezzo Melissa Parks was imposing as the Forester's impatient wife and the Owl for which she wore a cagelike garment flecked with feathers. The Beauty of the Beasts
It seems to be one of those words of rock 'n' roll origin that describes the ‘stuff’ inside a person that gives them that extra bit of fizz and sparkle and swagger to get through life.
His crushing critiques, if not born of arrogance, have at times been delivered with a haughtiness that practically swaggers across the page or the airwaves.
He had a slight swagger, balanced by a certain benignancy. The Planet Strappers
He captures the flicker of self-doubt beneath the bluster and swagger. Times, Sunday Times
On Thursday, the former Extreme Championship Wrestling honcho posted pics on his Heyman Hustle website, hoping to prove Rihanna swagger-jacked the idea from his 1998 cover jacket featuring a grappler called Sandman. Rihanna “Rated R” Cover Art Revealed
The cultural cringe had straightened up into a swagger. Times, Sunday Times
a more swaggering mood than usual
France had been well and truly ambushed; the arrogant swagger of the autumn was but a distant memory. Times, Sunday Times
After dinner, Roger appeared in military fatigues, complete with hat, sunglasses, jackboots, and swagger stick.
Which damaged though swaggering man will come out on top? Times, Sunday Times
Swagger and arrogance is all very well but until that huge European Cup is hoisted aloft it is merely bluster and bravado.
Oliver at last relieved his host by swaggering off, imitating as well as he could the sturdy step and outward gesture of his redoubted companion, and whistling a pibroch composed on the rout of the Danes at The Fair Maid of Perth
He has exhibited no swagger or bravado about what happened and represents a low risk of reoffending. Times, Sunday Times
With a propane tank over his shoulder and the little boy tugging at his arm, McCarthy swaggered towards the tracks.
Ansari, who is best known as the swaggering Tom Haverford on NBC's CLOSE Slate Magazine
He has exhibited no swagger or bravado about what happened and represents a low risk of reoffending. Times, Sunday Times
He captures the flicker of self-doubt beneath the bluster and swagger. Times, Sunday Times
This is the largest of all of the global media conglomerates, a brash place where swagger and superstar brands are a way of life.
He spent his formative years working in D.C. go-go, and his compositions have that loose-limbed swagger, relying heavily on sampled horn screams and weeping electric pianos.
In Liverpool blue bunting hangs from the civic buildings, the locals have a swagger in their step and even the scowling scallies who hang around the street corners break into an occasional smile.
Brock's Chick was a woman so hot that "the Arizona legislature recently passed a bill that forbids me and this young lady from being an item because we're too good looking," Brock wrote in one post, which contained Brock's typical blend of swagger and lechery. Ben Quayle's run for Congress, interrupted by Internet columnist Nik Richie
With the economy once again on the move and the Olympics and World Cup on the way, there is a certain something in the Rio air right now; a swagger that can be felt not only in Ipanema's luxurious nightspots, but also in the city's impoverished slums – favelas – and remote Amazonian towns where shopping malls and cinemas are sprouting from the ground with growing pace. Lula's Brazil: glitzy, rich, dynamic
walked with a prideful swagger
A goal ahead after four minutes, two up after 19, his players were coasting, and playing with the confident swagger of a team who knew it, when everything unravelled with alarming simplicity.
We need a few more swaggerers like Andrew Carnegie, the Marquis of Bute, or Sir Charles Tennant, all Scots who built great industrial empires and made certain that the world knew all about it.
The statues have always been appreciated for their rusticity, joie de vivre, and swagger, but little else.
He has occasionally, and with characteristic unblushing swagger, compared himself to Albert Camus.
The approach requires a devil-may-care swagger, a thick skin and also thick-skinned editors, who seem to be in short supply.
Decked with Gothic windows, Renaissance loggias and Baroque stairways, the city's public spaces emulate the comfortable stride and swagger of Shakespeare's stage Italy.
Here and there swaggered a strapping riverman, his small felt hat cocked aggressively over one eye, its brim curled up behind; a cigar stump protruding at an angle from beneath his sweeping moustache; his hands thrust into the pockets of his trousers, "stagged" off at the knee; the spikes of his river boots cutting little triangular pieces from the wooden sidewalk. The Blazed Trail
Women find happy men significantly less sexually attractive than those who swagger or brood, researchers said today.
But after three chastening years, the city is rediscovering its old swagger. Times, Sunday Times
The theme for Michael Caine's gangster film Get Carter, written at the age of 23, lays ricocheting trains, chilling harpsichord and funky tablas over a swaggering bass line.
To begin with the whole idea is horribly embarrassing because it inevitably means the pelvic walk and a confident swagger. Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning
Brazil attacked in waves, with the central midfielders, Lucas Leiva and Elias, providing the platforms on which Neymar, Ronaldinho and Hulk thrust and swaggered, with the overlapping Marcelo and Dani Alves frequently joining the fray. Brazil 1-0 Ghana | International friendly match report
And then staggered and swaggered along with Flint, Carl and TJ our way to Emma's for dinner and to meet Gina's brother Aubrey.
The moustachioed swagger that Essex were beginning to know and love counted for absolutely nothing when the future England captain made his Test debut against Australia's quickies at Edgbaston in 1975.
I hop out of the Humvee with a bowlegged cowboy swagger and a Ronald Reagan aw-shucks grin.
Swaggering and hostile, the Italians announce their intent: We're spreadin 'polio .... Philip Roth's "Nemesis," reviewed by Roxana Robinson
But while a swagger of smug certainty plays well on television, prudence might argue for an open mind and the occasional flicker of doubt.
After a lot of tick-ticking from my bright orange watch, Tyler walked, no, swaggered over, brandishing a scrap of paper triumphantly.
He was, altogether, as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six, or something less, in his bluchers.
He held this position for 10 seconds, after which he swaggered forth.
And with billions to spend, it gives them a certain swagger.
Under his expert hand, the Wiener Philharmoniker, apt to phone it in for something as "quotidian" as Mozart's 40th, shines and sparkles with the swank and swagger only it has. Archive 2007-01-01
The Doctor walked - no, not walked, swaggered - over to me.
For all its buccaneering swagger, the quality that sets the current Australian team apart from its rugby union contemporaries is its defensive intransigence.
Christopher Marlowe demanded in "Tamburlaine," his blood-sodden drama about a megalomaniacal one-time shepherd who had swaggered and slaughtered his way to a vast Asiatic empire in the 14th century. The Greatest of Them All
The remastering improves the original album's boxy sound; ‘Spring Rain’ finally swaggers instead of plods, as it always should have.
The immensely rich, immensely immoral characters of the teleplay swaggered across the screen in their fine clothes. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
‘There's the swagger, and that ever-present stogie,’ it reads.
He approached McGrath with a swagger and challenged him with the question, ‘Am I not the greatest bowler you've ever seen?’
With his scowl, stocky build and ginger crewcut, the passenger looked like trouble the moment he swaggered down the platform. Times, Sunday Times
Rick Perry swaggered on the stage and then tripped on his own platform: He wants to trim government, but can't recall exactly where. Dr. Peggy Drexler: Republicans: I Feel Your Pain
The palatial swagger of Vanbrugh's Castle Howard is suggestive of its patron's pride in the lineage of the Howard family and its place in history.
But even the most foolish swaggerer of them could not call milksop a man who could outride, outleap, outfence, outhunt him; who could drive the four horses of his coach to London and back at such a pace and in such a manner as made purple-faced old stage-coach drivers shake their heads with glee, and who, in a wrestling-match, could break a man's back at a throw if he chose to be unmerciful. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality
Gone was the swagger and prevision to be replaced with a few slack passes and failure to read situations.
Brodeur and Luongo brim with confidence, while Fleury has to ask what, exactly, the English word "swagger" means. Tsn.ca Top Stories RSS
Let him go, and he will walk the streets with a swagger, and boast that you were afraid to touch him -- _afraid_, gentlemen -- and children and women will point after him as the man who has sent nine others into eternity, and who yet walks the streets a free man. Public Speaking
But the picture built up in the media of a swaggering and callous man, was wrong. Times, Sunday Times
Thanks in part to the rapacious greed injected into war-fighting by the liberal use of for-profit armed "security" companies, a brutal, unaccountable and unreliable swagger is increasingly the face of the U.S. in conflict zones around the world. Robert Greenwald: Profit-Chasing Guns-for-Hire Are Killing Us in Iraq and Afghanistan
At 6pm, Masters, rum in pocket, swaggers down the street like a dishevelled Pied Piper with about 60 young devotees straggling along behind him.
There is something of an arrogant swagger about Ibrahimovic.
A youngster with a bit of swagger is a real ray of light. Times, Sunday Times
The purity of the opening segment has slipped away, replaced by bravado and swagger.
One exchange neatly sums up the swagger of the young, high, stupid and heavily armed.
It did not help that the service to him was in short supply but that customary verve and swagger to his game was conspicuous by its absence. Times, Sunday Times
It reflected the cocky, swaggering, rough-tough cowboy image of someone who likes to playact at being a "real man. Robert S. McElvaine: "Bring 'Em On!" - The Fifth Anniversary of Bush's Declaration of Indecency
There was no danger of her beauty telling any tales; and besides, she could put on as brazen-faced a swagger as the most impudent dog in town.
But after three chastening years, the city is rediscovering its old swagger. Times, Sunday Times
There was one man on and one out, and the score was tied 2-2 when the Bambino swaggered to the plate. Al Eisele: How Babe Ruth Helped Me Get This Job
Think swaggering verses, an uplifting chorus and a mighty brass crescendo perfect for ringing in the great British summer. The Sun
And the Derby boss will revisit the nation's showpiece stadium with a real swagger this time. The Sun
He made an effort to tone down the swagger yet allowed pentimenti on the canvas to draw even more attention to his beard.
Our sales hero comes alone, wielding an arrogant swagger.
A bit of the old swagger had returned. The Sun
It will be nice to play it over a tour where we can kind of get a little swagger to it. The Sun
France had been well and truly ambushed; the arrogant swagger of the autumn was but a distant memory. Times, Sunday Times
The first model swaggered out on to the catwalk with long curly hair wearing a dandyish red frock coat and hat with a jaunty feather poking from it – this seemed like a nod to the label's absent founder. John Galliano Menswear on the catwalk, while he is in court
In addition to my impressions of the theatre and of Prague, now came those of the so-called swaggering undergraduate. My Life — Volume 1
You swagger in here, into my lady's chamber, and shout allegations yet show no evidence.
The cultural cringe had straightened up into a swagger. Times, Sunday Times
The drum-major was terrific, with his jaunty swagger, and the lads loved it.
The officer in front, a major, bent and jabbed him with his swagger stick.
He saw enough in Hicks to remind him of the nihilistic swagger of Bruce.
He with his hatchet men swaggered out of the bar.
King's Road used to be one of the most thrilling streets in London and its glorious grooviness required that you walk it with a swagger or a strut.
Being exhibitionistic Americans, they all wave or swagger for his camera. The big picture: Blackpool beach, 1948
The bombast, condescension, arrogance and swagger all seems slightly silly in retrospect.
He maintained his arrogant swagger when he limped around the Press Centre but he looked haggard. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
There is a real swagger to his play at the moment. Times, Sunday Times
I knew I didn't mince or anything, but I really didn't think I swaggered.
Now there is a real swagger about their squad going into the new campaign. The Sun
The confident swagger and self-assurance that helped him win the US Open turned to arrogance and started working against him.
He sang the songs live on set and carries a real swagger. The Sun
He had the same pumping swagger that practically every young defendant in the Bronx affected, the Pimp Roll.
He sang the songs live on set and carries a real swagger. The Sun
The Saints duly went marching in, although it was more of a triumphal swagger in the end, and it seemed that everyone in Paisley wanted to be in that number, which of course was one.
Marlin swaggered forward a foot or so like he was preparing to say something. Escape
With his scowl, stocky build and ginger crewcut, the passenger looked like trouble the moment he swaggered down the platform. Times, Sunday Times
He may no longer have much power, but the old swagger has not gone. Times, Sunday Times
The Man has a confident swagger - is that indicative of where you are right now? The Sun
It would be hard, for example, for someone playing Bottom (John Ramm, in this case) to preen and swagger, when showing off his hammy acting, if he is barefoot, as was the entire cast here.
` ` Our team swagger is really high right now, '' Hawks forward Al Horford said. USATODAY.com
Jean affected a somewhat dégagé manner and a perceptible swagger.
The same bed-wetting Dem Senator – Harry Reid – who accused Bush of swaggering is swaggering about how the President isn’t doing enough to lead the way on Iran. Think Progress » Harry Reid: No Good Military Options in Iran
The road of life is a spiral path, only swagger, flexible turning, can rise to the ideal.
With that all the neighbors thought he was cracked, and faith the poor wife herself thought the same, when he kem home in the evenin ', after shpendin' every rap he had in dhrink, and swaggering about the place, and lookin 'at his hand every minit. Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers
They ran government trading at Salomon Brothers during the 1980s and early 1990s, ruling with swagger, bravado and hubris.
He may no longer have much power, but the old swagger has not gone. Times, Sunday Times
The new president of the company could hardly be described as a swaggerer or a posturer, and he won't be making any idle threats about strike action.
He took his prize and swaggered back to his seat.
Not satisfied with fighting World War VII on just the Iraq and domestic fronts, the 101st Fighting Keyboarders' John Hinderaker risked carpal tunnel syndrome and Cheeto toxicosis to drop a full load of swagger on the Islamunists of Lebanon, Friday: PFC. Hinderaker fights the war on three fronts.
It did not help that the service to him was in short supply but that customary verve and swagger to his game was conspicuous by its absence. Times, Sunday Times
The swagger was back and Swansea were guilty of fewer sloppy passes. Times, Sunday Times
It is too much associated with a truckling, subservience to English people and English ideas and the silly swagger of the hop-o'-my-thumb junior officer. Education and Empire Unity
Episodic material consists of scales and arpeggios that enhance the music's powerful images - ocean swells, billowing sails, even a sea captain's swagger.
They are the first to find the locations that are upwardly mobile and have that certain swagger. Times, Sunday Times
Aye, and when thy beard has grown, thou'lt be a rare Peshawar ruiner - so ye swagger enough, and curl thy hair round thy finger, and spit from the back of thy throat - Fiancée
He saw himself when he had been quite the hoodlum, wearing a "stiff-rim" Stetson hat and a square-cut, double-breasted coat, with a certain swagger to the shoulders and possessing the ideal of being as tough as the police permitted. Chapter 27
There's a certain swagger about this place. Times, Sunday Times
An outsider can feel it too, when a soldier swaggers up to your vehicle and orders the bonnet to be opened.
Until the day that the sword-swaggering patriarchies on both sides get hip to the fact that their day has come and gone, the battle will continue. Michael Lutin: The Manhattan Mosque: A Solution
Which damaged though swaggering man will come out on top? Times, Sunday Times
That will help to breed the confidence that will result in England's top players strutting with the swagger that they have at their clubs. Times, Sunday Times
The Man has a confident swagger - is that indicative of where you are right now? The Sun
But even the most foolish swaggerer of them could not call milksop a man who could outride, outleap, outfence, outhunt him; who could drive the four horses of his coach to London and back at such a pace and in such a manner as made purple-faced old stage-coach drivers shake their heads with glee, and who, in a wrestling-match, could break a man's back at a throw if he chose to be unmerciful. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality
He swaggered over towards me.
Arrayed in a clean shirt, and the swagger kummerbund, Denison presented himself next morning to the editor of the _Trumpet-Call_. Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899
He's swaggering, which is odd given how low is approval is. 10/17/2007
She was literally effortless the way she could bang on an outfit and just swagger about. The Sun
For over a decade, baby-faced Big Sandy has nailed the sound and swagger of Western swing, hillbilly boogie, or whatever else revivalists are dubbing it today.
He sang the songs live on set and carries a real swagger. The Sun
After years of hard-earned success on Broadway, where audiences lapped up their chaotic, anything-goes approach, the brothers arrived in Hollywood with an arrogant swagger.
Beneath a straw-tinted coif, bushy beard and dark aviator shades, Petty mewled through the latter tune with a swagger befitting his new album's title. With 'Mojo,' Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers find a bluesy groove
If you want to swank and swagger go for Pomerol's Lafleur that, incredibly, started off life en primeur at £1,650 a case and only three years later is priced here at £650.

How To Use Swagger In A Sentence

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