strut
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Dachshunds strut in ‘Sausage Walk’ during Paris fashion week.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
Hall was also keen to strut her stuff, saying she wanted to stay long enough to "wear all my fabulous outfits".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
“Breezy,” one of just a handful of truly catchy tunes on the set, has an easy strut that channels the twinkle of the LP “Diamonds and Pearls.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
We studied the choreography, mimicking his strut to the ballroom stage, the hip swivels, the disco arm roll as he sings about getting Brad and Janet a satanic mechanic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The fires pool and strut; they flow up the sides of the ramparts like tides; they splash into alleys, over rooftops, through a carpark.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
She went to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, where cosplay characters strutted in the oppressive heat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Five days later, Mladić strutted into town surrounded by TV camera crews.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
After “Michael” finished, Patterson and other attendees strutted and twirled while the credits rolled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Mike Papantonio strutted on a raised stage, his own face a hundred times larger than life on the screen behind him.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2026
Barely ten feet away, seagulls strutted around, squawking, flapping their skinny wings, and picking at something in the grass.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
“And then there’s some funny stuff too,” Dan explained, strutting around the store, with a sense of importance.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
New Yorkers can’t get enough of the strutting woodcock.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 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
Noem was the public face of that disapproval, strutting forward with arrogance in the face of public censure, a veritable clown show of ineptitude.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026
The last time she’d found herself in Jarl Brum’s company, he’d been strutting for Matthias and his drüskelle brethren in the hold of a ship.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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