How to Use swank in a Sentence

swank

adjective
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  • Going to the mall or a soccer game has never seemed so swank.
    — Josh Max, Forbes, 12 June 2021
  • Viewers see the practice court, kitchen area, weight room and a pretty swank lounge area.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Hôtel Costes, a favorite of the fashion crowd, has opened a swank new addition on the Rue Castiglione.
    — Washington Post, 23 July 2021
  • The kids wore designer clothes and partied at swank hotels.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • But the play trades too heavily on the architectural eye candy of its turntable set, which moves from the swank living room to the state-of-the-art kitchen to the upstairs guest bedroom.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • No thanks to the pandemic, the swank new Watermark hotel in Tysons is only 10 percent full.
    — Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022
  • From piles of crab legs at swank Las Vegas casinos to pans of fried chicken in small-town Southern restaurants, the buffet is back, baby.
    — Kim Severson, New York Times, 26 June 2023
  • His movie was a swank metaphorical concoction about flesh in revolt.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Jan. 2023
  • In a nutshell: The Home Group is a collection of super-swank resorts dotting the globe, where the rich and famous party hard with no paparazzi, phones, or cameras.
    — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2022
  • They were gussied up in a disarmingly swank atmosphere of marble tabletops, chrome and brass trim, and glass, glass, glass, plus high ceilings.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Fukunaga’s confident, swank handling of the action, and his juggling of tones.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 4 Oct. 2021
  • On Sunday a swank dinner party at db Moderne will keep the artsy herds entertained.
    — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • But why would anyone wedge an amusement-park ride into a swank Manhattan hotel?
    — Karrie Jacobs, Curbed, 18 July 2023
  • As always, Goldberg’s latest book is funny, violent and a little bit swank.
    — Ivy Pochoda, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • One jaunty Esquire cartoon from the 1940s shows two young women peering out their window at a swank gathering in a neighboring apartment.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Sun, however, has the irresistible camp appeal of Diana Rigg and Maggie Smith as former rival showgirls coming face to face at a swank island resort.
    — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2023
  • For decades, cineastes have borrowed the line as a funny way to compliment someone’s particularly swank outfit.
    — Leah Faye Cooper, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2024
  • The chaise-lounge bucket seats upholstered in houndstooth fabric—oh so German—are a swank counterpoint to the orange metallic paint called weissherbst (white autumn) that looks strikingly contemporary today.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Going to the mall or a soccer game has never seemed so swank.
    — Josh Max, Forbes, 12 June 2021
  • Viewers see the practice court, kitchen area, weight room and a pretty swank lounge area.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Hôtel Costes, a favorite of the fashion crowd, has opened a swank new addition on the Rue Castiglione.
    — Washington Post, 23 July 2021
  • The kids wore designer clothes and partied at swank hotels.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • But the play trades too heavily on the architectural eye candy of its turntable set, which moves from the swank living room to the state-of-the-art kitchen to the upstairs guest bedroom.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • No thanks to the pandemic, the swank new Watermark hotel in Tysons is only 10 percent full.
    — Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022
  • From piles of crab legs at swank Las Vegas casinos to pans of fried chicken in small-town Southern restaurants, the buffet is back, baby.
    — Kim Severson, New York Times, 26 June 2023
  • His movie was a swank metaphorical concoction about flesh in revolt.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Jan. 2023
  • In a nutshell: The Home Group is a collection of super-swank resorts dotting the globe, where the rich and famous party hard with no paparazzi, phones, or cameras.
    — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2022
  • They were gussied up in a disarmingly swank atmosphere of marble tabletops, chrome and brass trim, and glass, glass, glass, plus high ceilings.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Fukunaga’s confident, swank handling of the action, and his juggling of tones.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 4 Oct. 2021
  • On Sunday a swank dinner party at db Moderne will keep the artsy herds entertained.
    — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024

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