Example Sentences

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As for Alden Ehrenreich, he “absolutely crushes the role to powder, swaggeringly reviving the memory of the young Harrison Ford’s romantic gallantry.”

From New York Times • May 24, 2018

His early drawings were hyperrealist, feverishly detailed and painterly: he compared them, somewhat dismissively, to swaggeringly virtuosic guitar solos.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 19, 2015

Jefferson, swaggeringly: "If the shoe fits wear it/ If New York is in debt, why should Virginia bear it?"

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2015

"Assassins has to be the most swaggeringly badass show in town," wrote Metro's Patricia Nicol in her five-star review.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2014

They condemned the rich and begged and stole from the poor, talked swaggeringly of their personal courage and ran whimpering and begging before country constables.

From Windy McPherson's Son by Anderson, Sherwood