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"Swoop" in a Sentence (23 examples)
This is a golden opportunity we'd be stupid to pass up. Let's get to work and finish it all in one fell swoop.
The samurai decapitated his opponent in one fell swoop.
I felt naked in a strange world. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air, knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop.
The swoop of bats in the darkness over her was as the wings of unearthly creatures.
East, West and squally South-west, with a roar, / swoop down on Ocean, and the surf and sand / mix in dark eddies, and the watery floor / heave from its depths, and roll huge billows to the shore. / Then come the creak of cables and the cries / of seamen.
The police lied in wait, ready to swoop in.
He drank a full glass of moonshine in one fell swoop!
They watched the bird swoop down.
The lone eagle swooped down into the lake, snatching its prey, a small fish.
The dog had enthusiastically swooped down on the bone.
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There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.
Bridge of Weir: Protection of the site of the former Kilmacolm branch station (closed on January 3 1983) has been lifted, and developers have swooped in with plans for new housing.
And his Eagles, which can with the same ease as a kite swoops a chicken, snatch up a strong built Chamber of wood 12 foot square, & well crampt & fortified with Iron, with all its furniture, & a man besides, & carry it to the Clouds?
Thus the Phyſitian looks with another Eye on the Medicinal hearb, then the grazing Oxe, which ſwoops it in with the common graſs: […]
And now at last you come to swoop it all.
Proude Tamer swoopes along, with such a lustie traine / As fits so brave a flood two Countries that divides: […]
He was forever diving into dustbins or swooping on to the ground for cigarette ends.
Swooping is picking up discarded cigarette butts from the exercise yard and anywhere else they can be found.
The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. – Sun Tzu
One evening, when the Boy was going to bed, he couldn't find the china dog that always slept with him. Nana was in a hurry, and it was too much trouble to hunt for china dogs at bedtime, so she simply looked about her, and seeing that the toy cupboard door stood open, she made a swoop.
The switchback road to Diabaig - pronounced 'Jer-vague' - passes through some of the most exhilarating scenery in Scotland. […] With a final swoop, the road plummets down into Diabaig, where cottages are dotted across the slopes of a rocky semi-circle.
Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
Originally, computers' attempts at making music were recognizable by their beeps and boops and weird swoops.
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