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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of swan.

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Examples

  • Output is up to 621 horsepower at 6,000 rpm - another 21 hp over the GTC Speed - thanks to an increase in boost pressure, with torque goosed (or would that be 'swanned') from 553 foot-pounds to 590 ft-lb at 2,250 rpm, making this "extreme Bentley" the most powerful model to wear The Flying B.

    Autoblog 2010

  • The young Hemingway lived in an apartment over a sawmill in the Latin Quarter of Paris; the postwar Hemingway swanned from one grand hotel to another with an entourage in tow.

    The Slow Crack-Up Allan Massie 2011

  • Berber swanned around town wearing only a sable coat and a cocaine-packed silver brooch.

    Come to the Cabaret Charles Runnette 2012

  • Guests in bow ties and tasteful pearls swanned up and down grand vanilla staircases all night.

    The Digest and the Diva 2011

  • Germany is another country enjoying a Chinese growth dividend after sensibly refusing to allow its industrial base to be hollowed out, even while policymakers in Britain and America swanned around pretending that manufacturing doesn't matter.

    Glencore could dynamite the commodity boom 2011

  • The cadavers all have the same tall, slim body because they're all abstract replicas of a single person, the model who became a movie star and then swanned off to spend the rest of her life as a Serene Highness, arranging flowers in the Monaco palace and sending prissy reprimands to hotels and restaurants that allowed women to wear slacks.

    Grace Kelly: Style Icon 2010

  • In September 2007 Bee did a Sex and the City parody in which she swanned around New York in a tutu pondering the fact that women could now be “doctresses, body-buildtrixes, and firemenwomen,” as the onscreen text asked, “Is America ready… for a catty, stacked, whorish, menstruating…” woman president?

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • Turning around, Morris looked up at the screen, where someone with bleached spiky hair and a leather jacket swanned up a red carpet with two statuesque models.

    Unearthly Asylum P. J. Bracegirdle 2010

  • She had no seat, but Huffington gave Allison hers while she swanned around the room; then when Huffington wanted to sit, it was Allison's turn to work the room.

    Julia Allison explains how she crashed the White House Correspondents' Dinner 2010

  • So said the patrician Redgrave as he swanned round the dinner parties of north London.

    Beyond Their Range 2010

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