Swooping

Synonyms for "swooping" (16 found)

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aerial swoopmilitary swooppolice swooppredatory swooprapid swoopswoop pathswooping attackswooping birdsswooping curveswooping descentswooping hawkswooping motionswooping raidswooping strike

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more swoopingmost swoopingswoopedswoopingsswoops

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Far from being an empty void, the space around Earth is a jungle of invisible fields and tiny particles. It’s draped with twisted magnetic field lines and swooping electrons and ions.

Source: tatoeba (6547958)

With frigate birds swooping above and the high-speed dorado slicing through the water below, flying fish are, literally, caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.

Source: tatoeba (6763860)

Around age ten, in the garden in the Philippines, I imagined my hand or a paper plane was a gliding and swooping spacecraft. In North America, I did the same thing with my hand moving through the mists in a horizontal grocery freezer.

Source: tatoeba (10547553)

I rarely dared to write there after dark, but once in a while, gripped by the need to type a fresh version of a certain passage, I would type by candle or kerosene lamp and be treated to their [bats'] swoopings through the room.

Source: wiktionary

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