swagger
verb (used without object)
to walk or strut with a defiant or insolent air.
was swaggering
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past progressiveof swagger.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The greatest quarterback in history was swaggering down the field, charging, swinging, steaming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2022
Lil Peep — who died in 2017 — was a critical syncretizer of emo and hip-hop: He was swaggering, dissolute and deeply broken, a bull's-eye songwriter and a rangy singer and rapper.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2020
It was as fretful and self-doubting as Wolfe’s essay was swaggering.
From Slate ● May 15, 2018
“I’m defending the prophet,” said Mohamed Ragab, 21, who was swaggering through the crowd after a bout with the tear gas clouds.
From Newsweek ● Sep. 14, 2012
A footman was swaggering in the porch; he stopped the boy, and asked him patronizingly what he wanted.
From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Gilbert Cannan
