swashbuckle
verb
swash·buck·le
ˈswäsh-ˌbə-kəl 
ˈswȯsh-
swashbuckled; swashbuckling
ˈswäsh-ˌbə-k(ə-)liŋ
ˈswȯsh-
: to act the part of a swashbuckler
Examples of swashbuckle in a Sentence
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Instead, most are romantic stories about young lovers separated by fate, and the rest are swashbuckling adventures full of bandits and pirates.
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Literary Hub,
30 June 2026
What happened to the swashbuckling mountaineer whose image had been plastered across the internet?
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William Finnegan,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
By the 1980s, swashbuckling CEOs like Lee Iacocca had taken the Market Maker to a global scale — a man confident enough to write his autobiography and simply call it Iacocca.
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Lewis Schiff,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2026
The kind of experience these companies curate manages to be sumptuously luxe and transformatively meaningful—and offers plenty of swashbuckling tales to tell.
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Adam Erace,
Fortune,
24 May 2026
Even if the performance was not swashbuckling, Arsenal securing their place in back-to-back Champions League semi-finals for the first time is a noteworthy milestone.
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Jack Lang,
New York Times,
15 Apr. 2026
Poking around in Krabs’ stash of seafaring collectibles, SpongeBob and Patrick inadvertently summon the Flying Dutchman, who promises to help SpongeBob complete his swashbuckling checklist.
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Justin Lowe,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Oct. 2025
The shift accelerated in the late 1970s, as news divisions were restructured to prioritize profits and ratings, and a new generation of swashbuckling TV executives, such as Roone Arledge at ABC and Ted Turner at CNN, emerged.
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Time,
10 Sep. 2025
The program that gave us swashbuckling coach Mike Leach and Super Bowl quarterback Patrick Mahomes is being bankrolled by the billionaire head of its board of regents, Cody Campbell, who now has the school’s football field named after him.
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Eddie Pells,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Aug. 2025
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Literary Hub,
30 June 2026
What happened to the swashbuckling mountaineer whose image had been plastered across the internet?
—
William Finnegan,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
By the 1980s, swashbuckling CEOs like Lee Iacocca had taken the Market Maker to a global scale — a man confident enough to write his autobiography and simply call it Iacocca.
—
Lewis Schiff,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2026
The kind of experience these companies curate manages to be sumptuously luxe and transformatively meaningful—and offers plenty of swashbuckling tales to tell.
—
Adam Erace,
Fortune,
24 May 2026
Even if the performance was not swashbuckling, Arsenal securing their place in back-to-back Champions League semi-finals for the first time is a noteworthy milestone.
—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
15 Apr. 2026
Poking around in Krabs’ stash of seafaring collectibles, SpongeBob and Patrick inadvertently summon the Flying Dutchman, who promises to help SpongeBob complete his swashbuckling checklist.
—
Justin Lowe,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Oct. 2025
The shift accelerated in the late 1970s, as news divisions were restructured to prioritize profits and ratings, and a new generation of swashbuckling TV executives, such as Roone Arledge at ABC and Ted Turner at CNN, emerged.
—
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
The program that gave us swashbuckling coach Mike Leach and Super Bowl quarterback Patrick Mahomes is being bankrolled by the billionaire head of its board of regents, Cody Campbell, who now has the school’s football field named after him.
—
Eddie Pells,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Aug. 2025
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“Swashbuckle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swashbuckle. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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