Passed the muffled beat Of their swanking feet, The swell of drum, the exulting crow, The wild-bird note of the piccolo.
And he's swanking like the devil Where the women wave and smile, He will answer with a rifle Trim and true from stock to bore, Where the comrades crouch and stifle In the reeking pit of war.
He was a fine, fair sample of the slashing, swanking British army which backs its boasts with battalions and makes its light words good with heavy guns.
One sort was swanking and swaggering, in which the writer unconsciously melodramatized himself, and the other was cynical, in which the writer betrayed the fact that he was afraid of being melodramatic.
If fellows around you are swanking in dirt, leave them and go elsewhere.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swanking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
