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- verb Present participle of
swan .
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Examples
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A secretary of state with no qualms about swanning around town in his gas-guzzling BMW wearing a baseball cap.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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Just beautiful people swanning around under starlight, chomping on bonbons, clinking champagne.
The Meridian Ball: Champagne, bonbons, dancing, no speeches The Reliable Source 2010
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I quote: I didn't talk to Caitlín Kiernan, but I watched her swanning around in a tentacled mask and grey lipstick, and I felt awe.
"Bathsheba of my choosing" ericmvan 2009
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When at home she occasionally plays the piano, an heirloom scarred by a cigarette burn, but often she's away: One minute I'm on stage in London, the next Hollywood, swanning around with Daniel Craig in a golf buggy.
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This is the movie wherein I play a swanning novelist living in Rhode Island.
"I will battle for the sun..." yuki_onna 2009
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Just beautiful people swanning around under starlight, chomping on bonbons, clinking champagne.
The Meridian Ball: Champagne, bonbons, dancing, no speeches The Reliable Source 2010
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In case my spate of reviews should be giving the impression that I'm living (as my ex said not long after we parted) entirely for pleasure, I thought I'd bring you all up to date with what I'm doing when not swanning the theatres of New York in fetching outfits and neo-vintage hats.
Still Writing deliasherman 2010
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In case my spate of reviews should be giving the impression that I'm living (as my ex said not long after we parted) entirely for pleasure, I thought I'd bring you all up to date with what I'm doing when not swanning the theatres of New York in fetching outfits and neo-vintage hats.
Still Writing deliasherman 2010
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The celeb loses loads of weight, most of their marbles and begins swanning into the BBC Television Centre wearing lilac Pineapple Dance Studio leg warmers and a towelling headband mumbling about "knowing my value on the Strictly tour" and "being pushed to new levels of joy" – which could mean "on the dancefloor" but we all secretly hope means "in the Novotel adjacent to the west London flyover with their mobile phone switched off."
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I quote: I didn't talk to Caitlín Kiernan, but I watched her swanning around in a tentacled mask and grey lipstick, and I felt awe.
"My weakness laid bare, as people stop and stare." readingthedark 2009
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