sashaying

verb

present participle of sashay
as in strutting
to walk with exaggerated arm and leg movements the svelte young models sashayed down the catwalk with practiced insouciance

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Recent Examples of sashaying One was sashaying on a kitchen prep table, another on a prep table’s lower shelf. — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026 Gabby Windey started her reality television tenure on The Bachelor, then The Bachelorette, before sashaying onto Dancing With the Stars and finally doing a stint in Scotland on The Traitors. — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 7 Aug. 2026 Gazza with a sashaying run in his own half and a ball straight to Lineker’s feet. — The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 18 June 2026 Jimmy Kimmel Live star Guillermo Rodriguez will be sashaying his way across the ballroom floor this fall, Disney revealed on Wednesday night. — Katie Campione, Deadline, 17 June 2026 After her victory, news cameras captured her sashaying in blue while pumping her arms in jubilation. — Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 6 May 2026 Kim had a major runway moment during Audigier's Fall 2007 show, sashaying in this floral minidress and an on-the-moment arm cuff. — Emily Kirkpatrick, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026 Understand Substorms The aurora isn’t sashaying at full blast all night. — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside, 27 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sashaying
  1. strutting
  2. prancing
  3. stalking
  4. striding
Verb
  • The Tigers are off to their fourth consecutive 5-1 start under Drinkwitz, and their head coach is definitely strutting his stuff on the microphone week in and week out.
    — Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Argentina’s queen of perreo-rave has become a South American it-girl, landing buzzy domestic collaborations with Dillom and Emilia Mernes, and strutting into the international spotlight with guest spots on tracks from Shy Girl and Yeri Mua.
    — Richard Villegas, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of strutting
Verb
  • The steady hum of activity hits a particularly resonant pitch on the Second Sunday of each month when the street closes to vehicular traffic and becomes a European-style pedestrian mall with outdoor eateries and prancing pets on leash.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Iggy Pop, still prancing, howling and whooping with his chest exposed and jeans sliding down his waist, claims the title of the festival’s leading elder statesman.
    — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of prancing
Verb
  • Scandal, though, had a way of stalking the twenty-nine-year-old novelist.
    — Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The company has also been sued in connection to a stalking case and a murder-suicide.
    — Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of stalking
Verb
  • Nina nodded and looked across the restaurant to watch two tall women, flight attendants, striding resolutely through the concourse, their legs in perfect rhythm.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Rossi is deeply inspired by Umberto Boccioni’s Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, the Futurist sculpture of a figure striding forward, its body fragmented into aerodynamic forms that suggest speed and movement.
    — Alison S. Cohn, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of striding

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“Sashaying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sashaying. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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