How to Use swank in a Sentence

swank

adjective

• Going to the mall or a soccer game has never seemed so swank.
  — Josh Max, Forbes, 12 June 2021
• Viewers see the practice court, kitchen area, weight room and a pretty swank lounge area.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Feb. 2022
• Hôtel Costes, a favorite of the fashion crowd, has opened a swank new addition on the Rue Castiglione.
  — Washington Post, 23 July 2021
• The kids wore designer clothes and partied at swank hotels.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• But the play trades too heavily on the architectural eye candy of its turntable set, which moves from the swank living room to the state-of-the-art kitchen to the upstairs guest bedroom.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
• No thanks to the pandemic, the swank new Watermark hotel in Tysons is only 10 percent full.
  — Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022
• From piles of crab legs at swank Las Vegas casinos to pans of fried chicken in small-town Southern restaurants, the buffet is back, baby.
  — Kim Severson, New York Times, 26 June 2023
• His movie was a swank metaphorical concoction about flesh in revolt.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Jan. 2023
• In a nutshell: The Home Group is a collection of super-swank resorts dotting the globe, where the rich and famous party hard with no paparazzi, phones, or cameras.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2022
• They were gussied up in a disarmingly swank atmosphere of marble tabletops, chrome and brass trim, and glass, glass, glass, plus high ceilings.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2022
• Fukunaga’s confident, swank handling of the action, and his juggling of tones.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 4 Oct. 2021
• On Sunday a swank dinner party at db Moderne will keep the artsy herds entertained.
  — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• But why would anyone wedge an amusement-park ride into a swank Manhattan hotel?
  — Karrie Jacobs, Curbed, 18 July 2023
• As always, Goldberg’s latest book is funny, violent and a little bit swank.
  — Ivy Pochoda, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• One jaunty Esquire cartoon from the 1940s shows two young women peering out their window at a swank gathering in a neighboring apartment.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
• Sun, however, has the irresistible camp appeal of Diana Rigg and Maggie Smith as former rival showgirls coming face to face at a swank island resort.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2023
• For decades, cineastes have borrowed the line as a funny way to compliment someone’s particularly swank outfit.
  — Leah Faye Cooper, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2024
• The chaise-lounge bucket seats upholstered in houndstooth fabric—oh so German—are a swank counterpoint to the orange metallic paint called weissherbst (white autumn) that looks strikingly contemporary today.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2022
• Going to the mall or a soccer game has never seemed so swank.
  — Josh Max, Forbes, 12 June 2021
• Viewers see the practice court, kitchen area, weight room and a pretty swank lounge area.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Feb. 2022
• Hôtel Costes, a favorite of the fashion crowd, has opened a swank new addition on the Rue Castiglione.
  — Washington Post, 23 July 2021
• The kids wore designer clothes and partied at swank hotels.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• But the play trades too heavily on the architectural eye candy of its turntable set, which moves from the swank living room to the state-of-the-art kitchen to the upstairs guest bedroom.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
• No thanks to the pandemic, the swank new Watermark hotel in Tysons is only 10 percent full.
  — Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022
• From piles of crab legs at swank Las Vegas casinos to pans of fried chicken in small-town Southern restaurants, the buffet is back, baby.
  — Kim Severson, New York Times, 26 June 2023
• His movie was a swank metaphorical concoction about flesh in revolt.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Jan. 2023
• In a nutshell: The Home Group is a collection of super-swank resorts dotting the globe, where the rich and famous party hard with no paparazzi, phones, or cameras.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2022
• They were gussied up in a disarmingly swank atmosphere of marble tabletops, chrome and brass trim, and glass, glass, glass, plus high ceilings.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2022
• Fukunaga’s confident, swank handling of the action, and his juggling of tones.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 4 Oct. 2021
• On Sunday a swank dinner party at db Moderne will keep the artsy herds entertained.
  — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024