swagger stick
Example Sentences
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Students were often assigned a military rank and awarded promotions, like the 13-year-old cadet major carrying a swagger stick in a 1930 ad for the Page Military Academy in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
But in many ways, the fact that Gen. Sharif was bowing out on time — and will pass his bamboo swagger stick to Bajwa in a formal military ceremony on Wednesday — mattered even more.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 26, 2016
There he was, year after year, on those post-Christmas U.S.O. specials, with shrieking starlets and shirtless soldiers, swinging his golf club like a swagger stick.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 10, 2014
There he was - head held high, with a swagger stick under his arm, wearing his English riding pants, knee-high leather boots and tweed jacket.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2012
He began to slap the swagger stick into the open palm of his left hand again and again.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
