Alessia Cara

It's important to show that there's different ways of doing things. Some people like to be glamorous, and that's perfectly fine, and that's amazing. If I were that style, then I would do that. I'd wear heels every day, and I'd strut around in a dress, but that's not me.

Canadian Musician

John Lanchester

People misunderstand what a police state is. It isn't a country where the police strut around in jackboots; it's a country where the police can do anything they like. Similarly, a security state is one in which the security establishment can do anything it likes.

British Journalist

Paul Greengrass

What attracts me to Bourne's world is that is a real world, and I think I'm most comfortable there. But I come to a Bourne movie to have fun as a filmmaker, to strut my stuff, and that's part of the fun of franchise filmmaking.

English Director

Robert Gottlieb

Soledad Barrio is clearly a master - of thrilling steps and passionate movement. She stalks, she circles, she struts, she snaps her head - her feet drill the stage.

American Writer

Kim Wilde

I got to show off in front of my husband, who married me as I was stepping out of the business, so he had no idea that I could strut my stuff on the stage.

English Musician

Grace Potter

It took a lot of years for me to get comfortable, strutting my stuff, dancing like a fool, having that sparkly dress on that says, 'Here I am.

American Musician

Rajeev Shukla

I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.

Indian Politician

Deborah Wiles

Open your arms to life! Let it strut into your heart in all its messy glory!

American Author

Alexander Hamilton

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

American Politician

Delta Burke

American Actress

Emphasizes the walk of someone who feels confident and wants to be noticed.

Confident Walk

Using 'strut' may imply a lack of modesty, often seen as boastful or arrogant.

Not Modest

Can be used figuratively to describe any display of confidence, not just walking.

Figurative Use

In engineering, a 'strut' is essential for stability, often part of the framework.

Supporting Role

Struts are stationary and don’t move, unlike mechanical parts that might pivot or rotate.

Static Use

Refers to showing off something proudly, often to attract attention or admiration.

Displaying Impressively

This sense of 'strut' is often used in describing animals, not just humans.

Animal Behavior

When used in a positive context, it shows pride without arrogance.

Positive Connotation

 forest that these tigers have to fear and you can see it in the way that they move strutting around the only way to distinguish one tiger from another is by looking closely at their stripes once you start looking at these tigers in detail you realize that the stripe

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 I said, "Really. We have to show the other classes how to do it, so when we walk down the hall, people will notice us, so you can't make noise. You just have to strut." And I gave them a saying to "I am somebody. I was somebody when I came.

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 look at that strut I know it couldn't be more pleased with itself if it tried of course it also helps that it doesn't want to drag it on the ground come on I think what we've got is a young male on the right and a young female on the left

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 power it's shared between males and females this alpha female is one of the group's leaders don't believe it watch how she snaps this sapling then struts her stuff in a way that would make any dominant male chimpanzee prowl

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 they don't tend to dance but they do tend to rule and just strut their stuff as I say just walking side by side helps them to see which one is taller they go to see them to see him actually throwing

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 "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury

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 heavily guarded by platoons of sentries who vet every arrival inside the workers labor building a maze of interconnecting struts and plates to support the brood combs

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 prized territory too it's a disastrous loss and things are about to get even worse with young pups to protect and the strut

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 parents at around a month old the chicks begin to strut their stuff together in a crash in another few weeks they'll be old

Strut

Confident Walk

Not Modest

Figurative Use

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