How to use strut in a sentence

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• The assistant manager was a self-important fellow who strutted about the office barking instructions.From the entry self-important
• The hard landing caused the oleos to bottom out and the gear struts collapsed.From the entry bottom out
• Jim scared her half to death when he approached her with such an unusual strut.From the entry half to death
• He strutted in here like he owned the place.From the entry like one owns the place
• He strutted like a banty rooster.From the entry banty
• It promptly collapsed beneath her, the cardboard struts buckling under her elegant chonkiness.2023 November 30, Cheryl Mullin, “The cat truly brought the house down”, in Liverpool Echo, Liverpool, Merseyside, page 2. From the entry chonkiness
• This “merwolf” used the claws of its webbed paws to scale the strut.2021, P. Benjamin Mains, The Phoenix Rises: Beyond Imagination, number 1, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 235. From the entry merwolf
• An Australian Labradoodle belonging to the home’s owners strutted among the guests.2020 July 30, David Zweig, “$25,000 Pod Schools: How Well-to-Do Children Will Weather the Pandemic”, in New York Times. From the entry tableau
• “All right, let's hear that mbira strut its stuff.” (note plays) “Stop.2019 April 8, Brett Cawley & Robert Maitia, “The Future Is Borax” (11:42 from the start), in American Dad!, season 15, episode 22, spoken…. From the entry mbira
• Absolutely nails the issues with this caponesque, morally ambivalent, strutting UN wannabee.2018 February 16, Jody, “Goodbye, Mr Brandis. Good Riddance”, in Quadrant Online. From the entry caponesque
• You do not do walks of shame—you do struts of honor.2016 August 18, Stefanie Weiss, “5 sex positions for the lascivious Leo”, in SheKnows. From the entry walk of shame
• Their sound was a collision of glam rock strut, Stooges thuggery, and pub rock choogle.2013, Chris Handyside, Fell in Love with a Band: The Story of The White Stripes, →ISBN, page 85. From the entry choogle
• Might it be awesome to see my classmates' expressions as I strut out sporting a banana hammock?2010, Josh Berk, The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin, Knopf, published 2010, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry banana hammock
• DO NOT wear a trekky looking Bluetooth earpiece, unless you are strutting through a Star Trek convention.2009, Kirtsy Takes a Bow: A Celebration of Women’s Favorites Online, Houston, Tex.: Bright Sky Press, →ISBN, page 120. From the entry trekky
• Romen had developed a kind of strut to replace his former skulk.2003, Toni Morrison, Love, New York: Knopf, page 109. From the entry skulk
• You can't strut around for the rest of your life being heroic.2002, Peter David, Esther Friesner, Diane Carey, Double Helix Omnibus, page 444. From the entry heroness
• Bo John leered into the door mirror, clocking her flouncing, leggy strut.2000, Phil Austin, Naugahide Days: The Lost Island Stories of Thomas Wood Briar, page 109. From the entry clock
• Before flying away, he strutted his feathers so that I could observe his yellow undermarkings.1997, David Loxterkamp, A Measure of My Days: The Journal of a Country Doctor, UPNE, page 285. From the entry undermarkings
• The 21-year-old showed off her incredible figure in a cadet grey bodycon dress as she strutted to Delilah restaurant.2019 April 22, Connie Rusk, “Lottie Moss displays her incredible figure in a skintight grey bodycon dress as she heads on night out with…. From the entry cadet grey
• Witnessing these former butches strut around, super male.2014, Red Jordan Arobateau, Difficult Journey, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry upper surgery
• If anyone asks why you're wearing a bathrobe in public, just roll your eyes and keep on strutting.2012, Eric Grzymkowski, A Year of Living Sinfully: A Self-Serving Guide to Doing Whatever the Hell You Want, Adams Media, published 2012…. From the entry haters gonna hate
• Its fully independent suspension, with struts and coil springs up front and a multilink rear setup, loves to caress the road.2007 May 27, Jerry Garrett, “Altima Coupe: Fewer Doors, More Drama”, in New York Times. From the entry multilink
• A strut is tightly connected to a cylindrical airbeam along its whole length where it acts as a compression element.2007, Alessandra Zanelli, Tensinet Symposium 2007: Ephemeral Architecture: Time and Textiles, page 211. From the entry airbeam
• Tie on your desired strappies and strut the store's catwalk.2003, Shecky's Girlshop Guide to NYC Shopping, page 111. From the entry strappies
• Now there are five, solidly built, with concrete bases, galvanized poles and struts, and heavy-gauge mesh, shaded by young bluegum trees.1999, JM Coetzee, Disgrace, Vintage, published 2000, page 61. From the entry blue gum
• We would want mountain ash or white ash for spars; blue fig for struts; cudgerie for the fuselage.1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 104. From the entry cudgerie
• He strutted down Bond Street with the best of them, decked out in his top hat, wasp-waisted coat and silk hose.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 11. From the entry wasp-waisted
• We walked the plane between two tiedown blocks and not until we had tied the struts did Red cut the switch.1950, Flying Magazine, volume 46, number 3, page 18. From the entry walk
• The whole gang has put on the Ritz and are strutting about like a collection of pouter pigeons.1921 May 26, Chicago Daily Tribune. From the entry put on the ritz
• Overhead the woodpecker knocked insistently, and in the forest depths the partridge boom-boomed and strutted in virile glory.1902, Jack London, A Daughter of the Snows, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, →OCLC. From the entry boom-boom
• I am goin’ to run away wiv Burt in ’is van.” The woman strutted over to the rat catcher, and took his hand.2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry wiv
• Again, look up, to see the beautiful brick valley made by the Metropolitan: the towering arcaded walls with brick struts going over.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry window seat
• Bill Ward has always been known for drawing the biggest, bustiest, most bodacious babes to strut across a comic book or cartoon panel.2004, auction catalogue, #810 HCA New York Comic and Comic Art, page 123. From the entry bodacious
• Shirley, Max’s daughter, oldest of the three barmaidens serving in the tavern, strutted purposefully past her two sisters to the ruckus in the rear.1994, Roy V. Young, Captains Outrageous: or, For Doom the Bell Tolls, TSR, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry barmaiden
• How do we deal with sadism and masculinism, masochism and femininism, the strut and the swagger, the cringe and the death wish?1966, Peter H. Odegard, American Government: readings and documents, page 603. From the entry femininism

Meaning of strut

1. verb Of a peacock or other fowl: to stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out.
2. verb To walk haughtily or proudly with one's head held high.
3. verb To walk across or on (a stage or other place) haughtily or proudly.

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Questions about strut in a sentence

How do you use strut in a sentence?

Strut is used as a verb, noun and adjective. For example: “He strutted about the yard, thinking himself master of all he surveyed.”

What is a short sentence with strut?

“He strutted like a banty rooster.”

What does strut mean?

Strut means of a peacock or other fowl: to stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out.