Proud as a peacock

Usage examples of strutting.

You should have seen me as a warrior, strutting around in those boots!

Slashed tunics, tight hose, and loose-laced doublets adorned the strutting men, while the women cruised beneath headdresses adorned with points, turbans, battlements and horns.

With Tekoriikii proudly strutting at the fore, the trio made their way into the city streets and left the hill of palaces far behind.

In all the chaos of the multiracial crowds, a young man, a skinny woman, and a giant strutting bird raised little interest.

Lorenzo led Miliana past a vulgar, strutting crowd of young nobles at the plaza fountain, found a clean table, and handed Miliana down into a chair.

Miliana and the strutting bird led a procession to the barge, which bobbed on the docks at the center of a wheeling storm of flies.

Walking through the palace gates there came a lean, strutting hippogriff bearing a silent rider.

Details such as a flotilla of small boats nestled up like ducklings under its shaped bow and Spanish grandees strutting to and fro on the deck.

Rough wooden or tin partitions, slatted floors, and rudimentary ladderlike stairs had been attached as best they could be to the original bare steel strutting and concrete buttresses of the monorail station.

Their frenzied, shouting, screeching fling-about of high kicks, backbends, struttings, sudden splits—danced to Maître Offenbach's rowdy cancan from Orphée aux Enfers—could hardly have been more rousingly erotic if they had danced stark naked.