swagger
verb (used without object)
to walk or strut with a defiant or insolent air.
had swaggered
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past perfectof swagger.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Only 77 hours earlier he had swaggered into the McClellan hearings like a crowing cock into a coop of capons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Along with him went the young Syrian guards who only a few days before had swaggered in the yard below his apartment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Blustering Benito Mussolini, whose armies had swaggered across the rotogravure sections for years, seemed afraid to lead his impoverished nation to war.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was not, to be sure, the sort of anticipation that had preceded the 1968 Game, toward which both teams had swaggered without a loss.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the last three moves, Bull had swaggered among the movers shouting out commands as though they were laggard corporals in need of KP.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
