Example Sentences

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He had a way with him, as though if there had been butlers and valets at Black Rock he could have swaggered and ordered them around if he'd had a mind to.

From The Vagrant Duke by Gibbs, George

"Probably, yes," she recalled; "so how I must have swaggered!"

From The Outcry by James, Henry

A militia captain would have swaggered more; a complete impostor would have given more details.

From None Other Gods by Benson, Robert Hugh

The French soldiers are said to have swaggered in St. Giles’s, but no complaint is made that they were garrisoned in Edinburgh. 

From John Knox and the Reformation by Lang, Andrew

And if he had met Hal Burnham on his way back from his visit to Ruth Oliver he would undoubtedly have swaggered a little.

From The Best British Short Stories of 1922 by Cournos, John