How to Use swashbuckler in a Sentence

swashbuckler

noun

• And this week, the streamer kept that trend going with the release of this swashbuckler of a movie.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 13 Mar. 2022
• That doesn't mean the budding screen swashbuckler doesn't have new goals.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2022
• For a swashbuckler like Burton, finding the source of the Nile was an adventure too challenging to pass up.
  — Gary Krist, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
• Finally! The official car of swashbucklers is on the way.
  — Gary Gastelu, Fox News, 19 June 2018
• DePaula is decked out in a rugged winter coat, denim button-down shirt, shorts, boots, and a red scarf, like a modern-day swashbuckler.
  — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2020
• His oversized college career as an undersized swashbuckler was at the heart of that.
  — Bud Shaw, cleveland.com, 20 Jan. 2018
• Tyrone Power, handsome swashbuckler of stage and screen, showed up with his new wife, the glamorous French actress Annabella.
  — Ian Beacock, New Republic, 23 May 2017
• Korean-language library is a 2-hour swashbuckler, of a sort that feels a bit unusual for the streamer.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 10 Mar. 2022
• Named after the infamous swashbuckler’s mask, the Zorro motif was first introduced to the Top Time collection in the ’60s.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 22 June 2023
• This collection of pale-faced swashbucklers moves toward the opposing ship with all the cunning of a hungry zombie.
  — Charlie Theel, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2018
• Moreland wants people to remember these kind of ships did far more than ferry swashbucklers.
  — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• Play the stylish swashbuckler instead with this deluxe men’s pirate costume, which with a flocked damask vest, a collared shirt with faux leather cuffs, a suede belt, a faux leather hat, an eye patch and a faux silver and bronze dagger.
  — Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Oct. 2023
• Today, however, those desks are mainly shut down, and the swashbucklers who ran them have departed, largely for hedge funds.
  — Dave Michaels, WSJ, 23 July 2017
• Weyman’s cloak-and-rapier swashbuckler is long — over 400 pages in my edition — but its action never dawdles.
  — Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2021
• But this orange and white, 6ish-year-old, (does anyone know a swashbuckler's real age?) always-dirty cat really hates being inside.
  — Amy Bartner, Indianapolis Star, 19 Sep. 2017
• Most people think of pirates and pirating as a chaotic endeavor with every swashbuckler in it for themselves.
  — WIRED, 26 Oct. 2023
• Was your first introduction to fencing watching a swashbuckler movie with Errol Flynn or someone like that?
  — Bob Sansevere, Twin Cities, 9 June 2017
• Lenny Skutnik, portrayed as a selfless swashbuckler, epitomized the best of America.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 8 Mar. 2017
• Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland starred in other swashbucklers, but the glorious color and perfect casting (Rathbone never won a sword fight, but looked great losing) hit the bull's-eye just like its archer hero.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 15 Aug. 2019
• Brought to sea by Letterbox and Ulysses Filmproduktion and rendered in polished 3D, the film follows a preteen lass turned fearsome swashbuckler and seems primed for commercial plunder.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 14 Mar. 2023
• Pirates Cove Playground has a huge pirate ship for buccaneer and swashbuckler adventures.
  — Jennifer Boehm, sun-sentinel.com, 23 July 2019
• That sentence contains four of the hottest words on the dictionary's site Thursday — atrocity, nauseous, misogyny, swashbuckler — and all of them were trending because of politics.
  — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2017
• Retroformat Silent Films presents an online screening of this silent 1920 swashbuckler starring Douglas Fairbanks.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
• Alberto is a classic Huck Finn type, a freckled swashbuckler and cheerful fount of misinformation.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 18 June 2021
• Ken Ludwig's madcap adaptation of the Dumas swashbuckler.
  — Philly.com, 6 Aug. 2017
• Afterward, Haynes didn’t cultivate an image of hero as solo swashbuckler.
  — Chicago Tribune, Twin Cities, 29 Aug. 2019
• Much like the entries of the original trilogy, at its heart, Dial is a rip-roaring adventure that borrows more from the cinematic language of golden age swashbucklers than modern blockbusters.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 June 2023
• There’s a less-cynical (but no less depressing) case to be made that Pixar just wanted to make a mega-budget outer-space swashbuckler and went with a marquee character for understandable commercial reasons.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
• Perhaps the most sumptuous means to explore Komodo’s primordial beauty is aboard the new Prana by Atzaro, a nine-suite, swashbuckler-style megayacht designed in homage of ancient Indonesian boat-making with five-star boutique comfort in mind.
  — Travis Levius, Vogue, 26 Apr. 2019
• Douglas Fairbanks stars in this thrilling 1926 silent-era swashbuckler presented with live organ accompaniment.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024