strut
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Three high school girls all dressed in pink strut up to the outcast in red flannel and tell her what it takes to be popular.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
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
Each human model and their shorter android companion took turns to strut their stuff in unison on stage.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
He saw a peacock strut across a lawn.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
A grinning Bovino strutted around with media in tow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
As Bad Bunny strutted through the greenery, he passed by old men playing dominoes, women chatting in a nail salon and boxers sparring—a montage of scenes from life in Puerto Rico.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
The squad emerged from the coach wearing re-released replica away shirts from the 'Entertainers' era, when the Magpies strutted into stadiums up and down the country.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 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
The dancers clapped and strutted, tossing their heads boldly like horses.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
“And then there’s some funny stuff too,” Dan explained, strutting around the store, with a sense of importance.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Soon after, the Commander in Chief appeared, joined by White, strutting into the premises with a fighter-style entry walk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
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
By the time we were done, these daisies were strutting their white hearts out in front of The Dump—which didn’t look quite so much like a dump anymore.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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