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Example sentences for "strutted"

Lexicographically close words:
strumpets; strung; strut; struthious; struts; strutting; strychnia; strychnin; strychnine; stryf
  1. He began to fear that she didn't like him; and the next time the Cranes danced he didn't bow to her so much, but he strutted and leaped and whooped even more.

  2. And she strutted and leaped and whooped almost as loudly as he.

  3. The Athole pipers high-breastedly strutted with a vain port up and down their lines and played incessantly.

  4. She instantly came back, but without any loss of dignity, for she strutted with her nose in the air, affecting completely to ignore the inferior little animal, that was nevertheless controlling her movements.

  5. It was a large basin, a form the soil often takes in these parts; and in it strutted several full-grown ostriches and their young, bred on the premises.

  6. The peacock soon came to love Trot as much as the other bird and all the beasts did, and it spread its tail and strutted after her into the next boudoir, the sixth one.

  7. Here he strutted around in a very pompous manner and wagged his little head contemptuously at them.

  8. Events once of deep significance were recalled from the mists of a long past; men who had strutted their brief hour upon the stage and then gone out with the tide were made to live again.

  9. Just outside and on guard walked one of the navy's jack-tars, but the bronze man strutted past him and kicked the gate open without the jack-tar's pretending to notice it.

  10. He was newly clipped and touchy, knocked over the small boys, chased the shepherd dog into his kennel, and then strutted about as though he alone were lord of the whole place.

  11. A little further on strutted one rooster who crowed: "This is Swanholm, surely all the world knows that!

  12. This said, like Brentford's mighty king He march'd, and strutted round the ring.

  13. The young lawyer, highly pleased with the favor that he flattered himself he was gaining politically, finished his sentence with a gleeful chuckle, and strutted about, swelling with his own importance.

  14. And with his glasses on his nose, his head thrown back in order to see persons of ordinary height, and his fat little hands in his pockets, he strutted about the streets of Snagtown.

  15. He strutted about with his hands thrust deep into his pockets, reveling already in his future greatness.

  16. Mr. Diggs, as he strutted about, his glasses on his nose, casting upward glances into the faces of those who were discussing the question.

  17. Sergeant Schultz strutted back to his bungalow, in the verandah of which squatted a native girl clad in gay trade cloths.

  18. Tom received it accordingly with sundry scrapes; and, having kissed it with great devotion, put it on his little finger, and strutted off, extremely proud of his acquisition.

  19. I was not over the bellies of better men, nor strutted athwart the quarter-deck in a laced doublet, and thingumbobs at the wrists.

  20. The fan-tails strutted vaingloriously; Maudie lay in the sun on the stable wall; and Billy Bluff's kennel was empty.

  21. The cub of the bear came after a few minutes to learn what was going on, examined the victim, and strutted down the hill followed by its mother, who was apparently unhurt.

  22. At the head of each flock, as it unsuspiciously advanced, strutted a magnificent male bird in all the pride of his leadership.

  23. Washington Irving reports that "Wilkinson strutted into the Court, and .

  24. The little brown bird strutted with an important air to where it had a better view of Dot and her companion, and eyed them both in the same perky manner.

  25. He strutted towards the landing-place thinking proudly that he was not like those other ignorant boatmen, and knew how to answer properly the very greatest of white captains.

  26. With a witheringly dignified grimace he then pointed his club in the direction of Broadway and strutted off majestically "He's not better than a Cossack, either," was my verdict At this moment a voice hailed us in Yiddish.

  27. Many of the women strutted affectedly, with "refined" mien.

  28. You can imagine how surprised they were when a beautiful great fowl of greenish-blue strutted across the yard, holding his head well in the air and dragging his splendid train behind him.

  29. Dorking Hen, as she strutted around the poultry-yard.

  30. Gallardo, escorted by a group of friends from his native city who were residing in Madrid, strutted along the sidewalk of Seville Street near the Cafe Ingles.

  31. A man dropped to the wash and strutted toward her.

  32. MacQueen turned on his heel and strutted away.

  33. He swelled his chest and strutted a step or two nearer.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strutted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.