swagger
Example Sentences
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The confidence and swagger that had so recently defined Team USA had deserted them.
“When we started talking with Oscar, he came in with his Prince stuff. When you look at his performance, you see all those subtleties, the physicality, the swagger.”
From Los Angeles Times
Just two months after appearing as the swaggering Kilgore in “Apocalypse Now,” Duvall offered a more intimate variation on a military man — essentially Kilgore without an actual war, just a domestic battlefield.
From Los Angeles Times
He shot the ball with exaggerated swagger, false confidence.
From Literature
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That swagger is providing plenty of entertainment for French supporters, who were rewarded for their long weekend in Cardiff with a thumping win.
From BBC
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