swaggering
Example Sentences
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“Say, didn’t I talk to you last week?” asks the staticky voice on the other end of the telephone line—young, male, swaggering.
From Literature
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Greg is the best-selling author of a series of airport novels featuring a swaggering hero called Rooster.
From Los Angeles Times
The LP’s excellent guitar work and soft, swaggering vocals remain compelling.
Just two months after appearing as the swaggering Kilgore in “Apocalypse Now,” Duvall offered a more intimate variation on a military man — essentially Kilgore without an actual war, just a domestic battlefield.
From Los Angeles Times
The standout characters in “Crucible” include Ford’s swaggering head of security, Harry Bennett, a former boxer who uses his Dearborn, Mich., office for rifle target practice and keeps lion cubs as pets.
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