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"Sway" in a Sentence (31 examples)
Tall buildings may sway in a strong wind.
Nothing could sway his conviction.
In truth, a man who renders everyone their due because he fears the gallows, acts under the sway and compulsion of others, and cannot be called just. But a man who does the same from a knowledge of the true reason for laws and their necessity, acts from a firm purpose and of his own accord, and is therefore properly called just.
Though he is no longer president, he still holds considerable sway among the political elite.
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature.
From the time he got up, his beliefs began to sway.
Look how the trees sway in that wind.
God’s blessing on all nations, who long and work for that bright day, when o’er earth’s habitations no war, no strife shall hold its sway; who long to see that all men free no more shall foes, but neighbours be, who long to see that all men free no more shall foes, but neighbours, no more shall foes, but neighbours be.
Here AEolus within a dungeon vast / the sounding tempest and the struggling blast / bends to his sway and bridles them with chains.
"Presumptuous winds, begone, / and take your king this message, that the sway / of Ocean and the sceptre and the throne / Fate gave to me, not him; the trident is my own."
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The old song caused a little sway in everyone in the room.
I doubt I'll hold much sway with someone so powerful.
Though both Mr. Knight and Mr. Hennessey view themselves as traders first, the “finfluencer” culture has flourished with the surge in online interest, and they have considerable sway.
[…] the slowly dawning realisation that, as the billionaire venture capitalist Michael Moritz put it, they have “no sway” over what they unleashed.
Prospero:[…]Confederates / (ſo drie he was for Sway) with King of Naples / To giue him Annuall tribute, doe him homage / Subiect his Coronet, to his Crowne and bend / The Dukedom yet vnbow'd (alas poore Millaine) / To moſt ignoble ſtooping.
Prayuth's return as prime minister takes Thailand back to 1980s. Military still holds sway in a democracy that has yet to mature.
sway to the music
The trees swayed in the breeze.
Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
to sway the sceptre
As sparckles from the Anduile vse to fly, / When heauie hammers on the wedge are swaid
Do you think you can sway their decision?
This was the race / To sway the world, and land and sea subdue.
After all this time […] the woman who endured all that by focusing on her hit list can be swayed from her course by the prospect of her family and her home.
reeds swayed by the wind
judgment swayed by passion
Let not temporal and little advantages sway you against a more durable interest.
to sway up the yards
euen in these Personall Respects, the Ballance swayes on our part: […]
The example of sundry churches […] doth sway much.
Hadst thou swayed as kings should do.
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