swagger
verb (used without object)
to walk or strut with a defiant or insolent air.
has swaggered
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present perfectof swagger (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Since always, the film industry has swaggered into every room it has ever entered — Spielberg on line one, Scorsese on line two.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2020
Big Sam has swaggered but he still has the same squad that looked so doomed under Advocaat just a few weeks back.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 1, 2015
The first competitor has swaggered up to the starting line for a contest that aims to push the limits of genome-sequencing technology.
From Nature ● Jul. 25, 2012
From Mozart's Don Giovanni to Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, the figure of the libertine, that politically incorrect swine, has swaggered provocatively through 200 years of operatic history.
From Time Magazine Archive
