strutting

Example Sentences

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New Yorkers can’t get enough of the strutting woodcock.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

If you can imagine the strutting Nicolas Cage and lithe Laura Dern of David Lynch’s “Wild at Heart” but with an apartment and a kid, that’s them.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

He used to build his rosters by strutting up to future NBA stars and convincing them to head from high school to his training camps in Kentucky.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

On the strutting, guitar-driven Somebody To You, she waves goodbye to a suffocating relationship and asks: "Who am I when I'm out of your sight?"

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2025

He rushed toward the gulls, hollering and swinging his arms until the strutting scavengers abandoned their find.

From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen