How To Use Swanky In A Sentence
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You can tell that's translated from swanky French by the word "composited," which to Canadian ears sounds like it was fished out of the bin in the garden, along with several exotic species of mushrooms.
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The label threw us a party in this huge, swanky conference room, complete with stadium-sized TV screens and enough food to sink even my mother's ship.
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Mr. Antolini now lives in a swanky apartment with his wife, who's rich and a good bit older than he.
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Tabitha: Wow, what a swanky wedding! Who are the happy couple?
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Most of you know that I front a swanky little band called Rudy, a booty-rocking, porno-funking combo that rides by the slogan "Penetrate your mind, boogie your behind" and means it.
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However, the salad 'nicoise' I remember best was at an expensive restaurant in South Yarra during our early courting days; a time when swanky eating places go with the territory along with arthouse movies, wasting entire mornings or afternoons drinking caffe lattes and eating carrot cake in cafes and staying at B&Bs with frilly curtains, gingham tablecloths and hosts who just about sit in your lap at breakfast.
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For instance, Lemon Tree Hotel, which pegs itself as full-service budget hotel chain, converted its Lemon Tree City Center North in Gurgaon, a suburb of Delhi, into a swanky property so it could take better advantage of its location.
No-Frills Hotels Gaining Ground in India
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I wanted to make a big contrast between the chapter about the swanky Petroleum Club and the down-to-earth rec center.
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My attempts at coolness were almost spoiled during a very important meeting at the extremely swanky and expensive Cap D' Antibes Hotel.
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We relished every detail until someone produced the new Monsoon Home catalogue and we pored over swanky cushions and light fittings, virtually licking the pages.
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My mother colluded in the myth of him as the swanky businessman.
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Despite their brevity, I just love her tastes in swanky background music (the theme from Mannix — yeah!).
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But somewhere along the line, Mercedes got bored with merely being swish and swanky.
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Jackie's mad ad-lib skills immediately earned him a spot at Manhattan's swanky Club 18.
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Bangalore's crime cells are pushing for the corporate look - swanky and stylish.
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That's a swanky hotel in Montego Bay which the kids fancy.
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The settlers live large on the West Bank, often in swanky houses, using up 80% of the available water (while nearby Palestinian farmers watch their livestock die of thirst*), and sitting on vast reserves of unused land allocated to them by the Israeli state.
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The pair have been seen taking romantic walks together and canoodling while enjoying breakfast in a swanky eatery.
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One such just-shuttered cabaret evening, which will quickly be revived for three nights (June 25-7) has boldly popped up -- like Athena from the head of Zeus -- in an unlikely sophisticated nitery, Feinstein's at Loews Regency, situated on ultra-swanky, ultra-traditional Park Avenue.
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For Asia's hip and swanky people, carrying a mobile phone with a cracked screen and a tatty plastic cover is tantamount to a crime against fashion.
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The head chef of the swanky hotel hosting Earth Summit bigwigs described the mountains of posh food he is laying on for their pleasure.
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Vodka hasn't always been such a swanky part of drink culture.
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On the eve of her wedding journey, she has a swanky supper with her father, a bank manager ill at ease with his daughter's high-flying tastes.
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The Overnighter from Benefit Cosmetics, is described as a swanky sleepover set.
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Beijing's Hottest Latin Party Hits the Swanky Loong Bar!
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Mr. Brown promptly scheduled a 1 p.m. lunch at the Buffalo Chophouse — a swanky steakhouse that does not open its stately, castlelike wooden doors to the public until 4 p.m., but was happy to accommodate the mayor and Mr. Ford.
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Yet, like hedonists around the world, motorists here love swanky cars and bikes.
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In Tosches's swanky new Tribeca pad, wood preponderates, wood of differing darkness and grains.
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All in all, I'd rather work in a care home than be a swanky company director.
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They were to meet at the swanky bar, the Vibe, frequented by a clientele of beautiful people and the city's in-crowd to which bloggers were no exception.
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Matt and Phred's is a perfect place for her to play with low lights and swanky red curtains behind the stage, it's a classy affair for whoever is privileged to wonder in tonight.
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It's on the fourth floor of a new development (with swanky security gates and a lift!) and from the window you can see right across London to the post office tower.
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So could some swanky offices and shopping centres eventually sufferthe subprime fate?
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My new gym is very expensive and somewhat swanky.
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From all reports these guys are fantastic and they will be playing with local funksters Swanky Dee, who are always great for a dance.
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As, under Blair's premiership, the UK has been reduced to the role of being an international 'chancer', our best strategy is probably to smile, back off and try to sell him a football club, a swanky townhouse or some hedge fund bonds.
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Completing the triad is the intimate Transit Lounge (141 Tai An Road; 86-21-6283-3051), a favorite among Japanese men who come for the swanky red banquettes, loungey vibe and mojitos.
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Hopmeyer lived well too, driving a 2005 Jaguar XJ and calling a swanky Yorkville pad home.
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I recommend visiting these swanky noun shops, even if you're not a klepto like me.
Melissa Broder: Grand Theft Poetics
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Not only are these tunes swanky and loungey, they are incredibly good also.
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Jackie's mad ad-lib skills immediately earned him a spot at Manhattan's swanky Club 18.
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Went from 4 stories in swanky hood to 2 stories in less-swanky, but much more convenient hood.
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Don't be put off by expensive looking cosmetics boutiques and swanky hair salons when you're deciding your new look.
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Rumours were rife the wild rocker had proposed to his former wife at Las Vegas' swanky Palms Hotel and Casino and she had said ‘yes.’
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While frolicking tourists sunbathe on beaches and dine in swanky resorts, while a few thousand elite Moroccans are living high on the hog, millions of malnourished, destitute, and sallow Moroccans in remote rural areas scratch the dirt for survival and take shelter in dwellings so sparsely furnished and poorly built that they look like caves.
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Plus the clothes here were perfectly fine, and I wasn't wasting my money on some sleazy outfit from some swanky store just for a date.
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The same deal in the swanky Old Istanbul Ramada Hotel with all comforts and casino is ￡326.
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The set-up is that the crowd gathered in the swanky nitery includes seven couples, four of whom -- Selya and Holley Farmer, Roberts and Plantadit, Matthew Stockwell Dibble and Okamoto,
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My mother colluded in the myth of him as the swanky businessman.
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Bukowski Tavern, a craft-beer bar, isn't exactly what I'd call "swanky," on account of the high tattoo coverage, but it did serve as the perfect search result when I told the app I wanted to be "around hipsters" also, I believe, a circle of hell.
The Digital Bar Crawl
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Still, when all around were dining on quails' eggs, Orwell was roughing it in the kitchens of swanky hotels, dossing down in flea pits and blundering in the Spanish Civil war.
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Well, there are many reasons to dine out in a swanky restaurant, most of which are celebratory.
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The walls in the Sunset location look like giant sueded quilt and the rest of the decor and corresponding vibe is sleek, swanky, and sex-ay.
Boa Steakhouse - Citron, Soda, and Steaks
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I find it hard to believe that women want to have sex with strange men one after the other after the other, whether it's in swanky hotels, cosy suburban boudoirs or dirty back alleys.
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He bought the property next to Tiffany's on New York's swanky Fifth Avenue.
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Completing the triad is the intimate Transit Lounge (141 Tai An Road; 86-21-6283-3051), a favorite among Japanese men who come for the swanky red banquettes, loungey vibe and mojitos.
Sunday Reading
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My first night away from home I splurged and checked into this swanky hotel downtown, where everything seemed to be covered in plush red velvet.
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The high point for Defoe's high-class courtesan is her "little ball" in her swanky London apartments.
Ten of the best balls in literature
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Although this film boasts beautiful black and white cinematography and Joan looks great in swanky Adrian-designed duds, this film falls short of the ‘33 version in every department.
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On Sunday night I attended a swanky dinner in a painfully trendy Brighton Hotel to listen to James Rubin, former US assistant secretary of state.