How to Use swashbuckler in a Sentence

swashbuckler

noun
  • That doesn't mean the budding screen swashbuckler doesn't have new goals.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2022
  • And this week, the streamer kept that trend going with the release of this swashbuckler of a movie.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Moreland wants people to remember these kind of ships did far more than ferry swashbucklers.
    — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • His oversized college career as an undersized swashbuckler was at the heart of that.
    — Bud Shaw, cleveland.com, 20 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Most people think of pirates and pirating as a chaotic endeavor with every swashbuckler in it for themselves.
    — WIRED, 26 Oct. 2023
  • On the other hand, the industry’s seldom seen a more daring swashbuckler than Scott Kirby.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Weyman’s cloak-and-rapier swashbuckler is long — over 400 pages in my edition — but its action never dawdles.
    — Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Afterward, Haynes didn’t cultivate an image of hero as solo swashbuckler.
    — Chicago Tribune, Twin Cities, 29 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Was your first introduction to fencing watching a swashbuckler movie with Errol Flynn or someone like that?
    — Bob Sansevere, Twin Cities, 9 June 2017
  • Pirates Cove Playground has a huge pirate ship for buccaneer and swashbuckler adventures.
    — Jennifer Boehm, sun-sentinel.com, 23 July 2019
  • 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
  • Lenny Skutnik, portrayed as a selfless swashbuckler, epitomized the best of America.
    — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 8 Mar. 2017
  • Alberto is a classic Huck Finn type, a freckled swashbuckler and cheerful fount of misinformation.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 18 June 2021
  • Young landed her first major role a few years prior with a handful of episodes of Starz’s gritty swashbuckler, Black Sails (2015).
    — Kelly Martinez, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • The pub, located in the theme park’s Adventureland near the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, has a backstory as being a place where swashbucklers of all ages gather.
    — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Retroformat Silent Films presents an online screening of this silent 1920 swashbuckler starring Douglas Fairbanks.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • The role of Elizabeth Swann, the adventurous Governor's daughter turned high seas-sailing swashbuckler, instantly placed her in contention for Hollywood's hottest parts — though not without a price.
    — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Premiering on Tuesday, June 30, is a Zorro television series featuring an Oscar-winning actor as the iconic swashbuckler, a role played by stars including Douglas Fairbanks, Tyrone Power, Alain Delon, Antonio Banderas and, well, George Hamilton.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 June 2026

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