strutting

Example Sentences

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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

Miss Mexico was crowned Miss Universe in Thailand on Friday, strutting to victory after the beauty pageant's host had publicly chastised her, among several dramatic missteps in the run-up to the final stage.

From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025

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

Today it’s a strutting sense of self and mission the Roman of a later era would have recognized just as readily.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2025

As we went to the other side of the house, a brown- and-white-speckled rooster came strutting to meet us.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz