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Example sentences for "swaggered"

Lexicographically close words:
swaddling; swag; swage; swaged; swagger; swaggerer; swaggerers; swaggering; swaggers; swaging
  1. I met a member the other day, who swaggered near about as large as Uncle Peleg.

  2. The prospector gleefully pocketed the money and dust, sighed with relief and swaggered over to the other table, one thumb hooked in an armhole of his vest.

  3. The warriors of Toll swaggered along the road with the insolent assurance of men who know themselves masters of all around them.

  4. Tall reptile men swaggered through the crowds with their swords slung on their hips, but the shorter Green Men were in the great majority.

  5. Their gay garments were caked with mud, the finery all tatters, and most of them were marked with cuts and scratches, but they pulled themselves together and swaggered into Charles Town as boldly as ever to the music of trumpet and drum.

  6. Indeed, some of these rascals lived on friendly terms with the people of the small settlements and swaggered ashore to squander the broad gold pieces and merchandise stolen from honest trading vessels.

  7. Into the room swaggered a tall, fine-looking young man of some three-and-twenty summers, dressed in all the extravagance of a lavish and extravagant age.

  8. His step was not altogether so steady as it might have been, as he swaggered into his mother's presence.

  9. But he held his head high, and swaggered along as though he felt himself a match for all and any who might attack him.

  10. But it was not long before they swaggered into an alehouse; and then Tom and Harry went swiftly by, and, taking the straight route up to Highgate, arrived there long before the others could be expected.

  11. He took no chances on a reprimand about his shoes, for he swaggered up in riding-boots, which no soldier can be asked to take off before he treads on a private floor; and he saluted as a soldier, all dignity.

  12. The Rajput swaggered to the dark door, spurs jingling, looking back across his shoulder once or twice, as though he half-regretted leaving the Hindoo horseman's head upon his shoulders.

  13. So he and Mahommed Gunga swaggered across the courtyard to where Cunningham had joined the McCleans again.

  14. Others from the city streets laughed loudly and swaggered along to show their contempt for the place and their knowledge of its public character; but their insolence was half assumed.

  15. After eating his dinner, Miner lit his pipe and swaggered out, as if he had done an admirable thing.

  16. And so he swaggered away, jerking and waddling over the sward, and was soon lost in the wood.

  17. She strode and swaggered round the room, muttering all the way, and turning the corners of her course with a furious whisk.

  18. He swaggered up the steps of the saloon, his right hand poised, his bulging eyes full of hell.

  19. When I didn't, he laughed and swaggered to the door of the saloon.

  20. Then Mr. Parker swaggered out with the air of a man whose opinions have the weight of a judicial decision.

  21. Almost every male swaggered about heavily armed, but a blow on their bristling midriff would have staggered any one of them.

  22. With his long cigarette-holder, and long shiny boots, he swaggered round, followed by ormulu staff officers and diligent clerks and pompous gentlemen in dog-collars.

  23. The fierce-looking moustaches of the Rajpoots and Patans, and the black beards of the Mussulmans, with their tulwars and shields, as they swaggered about, gave them a particularly warlike air.

  24. As they left the gates of the house the rajah walked rapidly along, concealing his face in his robe, while Reginald swaggered on by his side with a martial strut assumed generally by the sowars.

  25. He swaggered beside her without an invitation.

  26. Hartley and his friend swaggered on the following afternoon into the shop, and whispered Sophia that their arrest by the police had arisen from a strange mistake, for which the most ample apologies had been offered and accepted.

  27. I had barely time to slip aside into one of the passages, when the three gentlemen came out of the office, passed me, and swaggered out of the yard.

  28. Aristide athirst with love, living drama and unholy hatred of the Comte de Lussigny, cocked his black, soft-felt evening hat at an engaging angle on his head and swaggered into the Villa des Fleurs.

  29. He swaggered slowly through the crowded room, twirling his moustache, and went into the cool of the moonlit deserted garden beyond, where he waited gleefully.

  30. His first dubious venture on a crackling sheet of ice taxed his puppy courage, too, but he persisted in his quivering progress across our little Longfellow Pond and swaggered up the further side with his jauntiest sporting air.

  31. Sigurd thought he had frightened them away and swaggered home with a marked revival of spirits.

  32. It was hard to face; but I remembered that the fall before it had been my lot to drive a thousand saddle horses home to the ranch, and that I had swaggered as a trail foreman afterward as the result.

  33. But after the supplies were settled for, and some new clothing was secured, we chambered a few drinks and swaggered about with considerable ado.


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