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Example sentences for "swapped"

Lexicographically close words:
swanking; swanky; swans; swansdown; swap; swapping; swaps; swar; sward; swarded
  1. Had a Testament in his pocket when he came aboard; in a week's time he had swapped it for a pack of cards.

  2. I'm the outside man for Todd & Simonton, of Boston, and bought on the jump after I'd swapped a wire or so with the house.

  3. He swapped his neat suit of brown with a deck-hand, and received some particularly unkempt garments.

  4. The florid giant and the dapper, dark young man swapped apologies in a faint flicker of a mutual grin.

  5. The Senator swapped looks with the goggling North over Lana's head.

  6. Mac Tavish bent on Dow a wild look and swapped with the old pensioner of the Morrisons a stare of amazement for one of bewildered concern.

  7. He swapped a whimsical smile for their frowns.

  8. Again the men in the Executive Chamber swapped uneasy glances.

  9. Since that time some of the Johnson boys and girls have bought and sold and swapped portions of the land.

  10. We drove it two years and then swapped it off for a $45 milk cow.

  11. The king sassed back as much as was safe for him, and then swapped around and lit into ME again.

  12. There was freckled places on the ground where the light sifted down through the leaves, and the freckled places swapped about a little, showing there was a little breeze up there.

  13. I was chiackin' him about the deal, when he told me you swapped level; an' he wanted to change the subject.

  14. Well, at long an' at last we swapped level for Valiparaiser.

  15. It did not take me long to gather the change remaining from seventy dollars greenbacks swapped for six hundred and ninety miles of travel at ten cents a mile.

  16. We replenished our water casks from the tank cars, we swapped for a little feed, we occasionally exchanged greetings with contractor outfits, and with grading crews.

  17. Our old friend, Rebecca, Pen pronounced to be no long up to his weight, and swapped her away for another and more powerful horse, for which he had to pay rather a heavy figure.

  18. And after putting it aside into a drawer and forgetting it for some time, he swapped it finally away for a more useful time-keeper.

  19. Jasper had a team of mules he had swapped for a yoke of oxen, and he had a cookstove that he had bought with his own savings.

  20. Once women came to do their trading there with homemade basket, filled with eggs, butter, ginseng which they swapped for fixings, thread, and calico.

  21. And Damron's famed Black Diamond, The logger's paradise, Where whiskey flowed like water And timbermen swapped lies.

  22. The General proposed drinks, but John hadn't time, and they only swapped cigars.

  23. He knew that Garnet, months before, had swapped his Land Company stock to Proudfit for the Colonel's much better stock in the Construction Company and succeeded him as president of the latter concern.

  24. As to this spotty-faced waster who swapped names with him, I almost have it in me to wish we'd left him to be chopped by those sharks.

  25. So Cranze and I swapped names, just to confuse people.

  26. Swapped horses with Robert Hill and captured some more.

  27. Swapped horses with Robert Hill, and captured some more.

  28. They swapped reminiscences of the streets; the restaurants, and the waiters and proprietors thereof; the alleys and by-ways, the parks and little places.

  29. He and Yank smoked interminable pipes, and swapped yarns.

  30. Aunt Ellen swapped experiences with him, and pointed to the chimney, which if it had fallen inward would have killed her.

  31. As they munched they swapped their news--his failure at selling the ledge, her success in "The Zingara.

  32. There was laughter, jokes passed over exchanges of food, an excess of tea here swapped for a loaf of bread there, a bottle of Zinfandel for a box of sardines.

  33. Little Bertie was a grandson; and grandma wanted Bertie to come and live with her in the big Long Island place that Fletcher had handed her when he swapped her off for one of the sextet, and settled up after the decree was granted.

  34. At Paris, after my arrival, and at various places along the Front I have swapped talk and smoking tobacco with sundry more or less well-known members of the Lafayette Escadrille and with unattached aviators of repute and proved ability.

  35. Strangers got acquainted one with another and swapped views on politics, religion, symptoms and Germans; flirtations started and ripened furiously; concerts were organized and took place, proving to be what concerts at sea usually are.

  36. The priest, Felix, and the governor swapped looks and nods which indorsed an understanding that was wordless between the young women.

  37. The talk among the men who shouldered one another in the street and swapped grins and gab revealed that not all of them were ready to volunteer as spurred roosters, ready for hazard.

  38. Nat Fisher, punching cows for the CG and tired of his job, leaned comfortably back in his chair in the Paradise and swapped lies with the all-wise bartender.

  39. Whoever swapped him that wedge for his gun did us a good turn, all right.

  40. It was the man he had met in the gospel tent, the man he had chased for a horse-thief and then swapped mounts with.

  41. However, in sheer human kindness, I taught the girl to whom I swapped it how it might be worn as a garter, and her delight was so great and so unexpected that it caused me some apprehension as to the results.

  42. I had swapped my platinum finger ring for a beat-up .

  43. Cagu and Mull swapped lies while I worked on my drinking.

  44. That's why that feller that swapped clothes with me said there were no cops to bother about it.

  45. Anyway, the feller I swapped with said he needed the pants awful bad.

  46. I asked the feller I swapped my clothes with.

  47. Located more dress suits, likewise ran into a traveling man whom I swapped two dress suits with, for about half a ton of patent bottle-openers.

  48. You could have swapped Siwash off for a correspondence school without noticing any difference in the reverberations.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swapped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.