swag
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Does your relationship have a swag gap, and is that always a bad thing?
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Compensation usually arrives in the form of gift cards, discounts and free swag.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Granted, there isn’t anything during the Washington festivities quite akin to the swag bag given to Oscar nominees.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 24, 2026
Times swag and a free one-year digital subscription to The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
He was gone longer than he’d meant to be and he hurried his steps the best he could, the water swinging and gurgling in the shrunken swag of his gut.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
Behind the bar, they swagged a second garland made from teasel and sweet gum and poppy seed pods.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
The blue-appointed restaurant at the May Company’s grand Wilshire Boulevard store was swagged in velvet curtains and lighted with enormous Italian chandeliers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
Like gleaming bronze and caramel silk suiting swagged across the hips, and big pleated pants, and dresses with their own built-in capes, à la 1980s t-Caesars Palace-superwoman.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2020
A renewed appreciation for antiques was unleashed in the 1980s, when Washington took the lead in an “English country” decorating frenzy of carved mahogany secretaries, swagged chintz draperies, gently frayed Oriental rugs and dog paintings.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2017
The depot was swagged in red, white, and blue bunting.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
But photos in the new 60th anniversary edition of “The White House: An Historic Guide” reveal that there was a whole lot of swagging, fringing and gilding going on upstairs.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022
I don’t think I ever really care to watch Homeland again, even if Carrie is swagging around Istanbul.
From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2013
In return, Dakine is swagging these bands out with beanies, backpacks, hoodies, and the like.
From Time Magazine Archive
He halted, though, standing rigid, his guns slowly swagging in his hands, their muzzles drooping.
From 'Drag' Harlan by Charles Alden Seltzer
He saw the lonely expanse of snow, the clouds swagging low, and between the two the line of dark fir-trees bowing in the wind.
From The Were-Wolf by Laurence Housman
Vocabulary lists containing swag
Tolkien Reading Day, List 9
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The Stars Beneath Our Feet
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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