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Example sentences for "strut"

Lexicographically close words:
strumming; strumous; strumpet; strumpets; strung; struthious; struts; strutted; strutting; strychnia
  1. He then addresses the assembled birds, who strut about with their wings half opened, and answer him with approving gobbles.

  2. He came to the house to pay his addresses, and to strut about before the idiot girl, who, however, seemed to please him.

  3. Mr. Lamb does not court popularity, nor strut in gaudy plumes, but shrinks from every kind of ostentatious and obvious pretension into the retirement of his own mind.

  4. You strut about as if you were indeed the king of a puppet show.

  5. At any rate," Charles continued; "at any rate, the little Major with all his strut died like a cock of the game.

  6. The wattled cocks strut to and fro.

  7. They strut about and show their pride when people call them father, so and so.

  8. When men array themselves in showy garbs to indicate that they are servants of the gods, and strut about like gaudy birds to be admired by men, because of piety or any other thing, the Holy One must surely turn away in sheer disgust.

  9. But the necessary insight into his powers had first to be gained, for it was not one of those talents which, from the beginning, strut their little world with the assurance of the peacock.

  10. It had been no better than those loves which made no secret of their aim and did not strut about draped in false sentiment.

  11. The boy began to strut after her, but meeting Robert's broad smile, bethought himself of his affliction, so changed the strut into a limp, and followed her in.

  12. An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.

  13. How thy snag teeth stand orderly, Like stakes which strut by the water side.

  14. Slang] Lord Strut was not flush in ready, either to go to law, or to clear old debts.

  15. To walk or strut about in a pompous, showy manner, or with warlike parade.

  16. And then the barograph on the strut beside Lanyard disappeared as if by magic.

  17. Lanyard could see the dial of the compass, fixed to a strut on the pilot's left.

  18. Where poles have heavy circuits and several cross-arms each it is sometimes desirable to attach a guy or strut beneath the lowest arm and also a guy close to the pole top.

  19. A guy or strut should come well up under the lower cross-arm on a pole to avoid breaking of the pole at the point of attachment.

  20. Dogface Eruxis, the small satirist,-- What better would the manikin desire Than to strut forth on tiptoe, notable As who so far up fouled me in the flank?

  21. Birds born to strut prepare a platform-stage With sparkling stones and speckled shells, all sorts Of slimy rubbish, odds and ends and orts, Whereon to pose and posture and engage The priceless female simper.

  22. Strut and stretch my best On tiptoe, I shall never reach your height.

  23. Once a-strut On that firm pavement which your cowardice Was for renouncing as a pitfall, next Came need to clear your brains of their conceit They cleverly could distinguish who was who, Whatever folk might tramp the thoroughfare.

  24. As he got deeper and deeper into the bed, he had to fix a strut or post with a cross beam to support the weight of the roof, and he had to get the coal out by stooping down low or resting on his knees.

  25. They are disappointed if you do not strut and step high.

  26. He began to strut and caper and pose with the air of knowing that he was the finest gentleman in England.

  27. I had some wonder as to which would be able to out-strut the other.

  28. Amused to see the Gents strut about so jaunty smoking Cigars, I think Cabbage Leaf steeped in Tobacco-Juice.

  29. All of a sudden he saw a splendid camel strut by him quite closely, stretching its long legs and puffing out its throat like a turkey-cock, and that made his heart throb.

  30. Every Sunday morning out he would march in a new cap, and back he would strut every Sunday evening with a mere thing of shreds.

  31. If you don't have something to brag, boast, and strut about, then nobody in the underground will recognize you and favor you with vital cooperation and respect.

  32. He knows his complement of hens, and does not cease to strut and gobble until all hens come to him; he then quits gobbling and strutting and steals away to feed on tender leaves, buds, and grasshoppers.

  33. The tuft or beard does not appear on the young gobbler even in the Southern climate until late in October or November, nor have I known them to gobble or strut at this early age, although the tame ones sometimes do.

  34. After this he would begin to strut and gobble, and the red of his head becoming intense he would go through the caressing motions.

  35. I have often seen the wild gobbler strut on his roost, and I have shot them in such an act when in full round strut.

  36. It is usual for the hen to visit the gobbler every morning, staying in his company only for a short time; and when she departs he follows her slowly a few steps, then begins to strut and gobble violently until she is out of sight.

  37. The strut is the better sign every time; it shows he has leisure and passion.

  38. I have often seen two old gobblers strut up to each other, blow, puff, and rub their sides together.


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