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Example sentences for "swimming"

Lexicographically close words:
swim; swiming; swimme; swimmer; swimmers; swims; swindle; swindled; swindler; swindlers
  1. Her eyes, swimming in tears, looked up at him in sweet entreaty through the thick veil she wore.

  2. Ten minutes might have passed, when two withered leaves fluttered over her head and sank like tired birds of passage swimming on to the water.

  3. Out of this pair of blue swimming eyes his own guilt looked at him confidingly, softened and cleared by the woman's grace.

  4. You, too, seem to be swimming in it, and the lamp and everything is red and dull from undiluted blood.

  5. Swimming was no task to him, for his coat of hollow quills made it impossible for him to sink.

  6. At this moment the big pike came swimming past again, hoping for another chance at the elusive Star-Nose.

  7. Her back ached from the strain of bending over her typewriter and she went into the house and changed into her trim swimming suit.

  8. From the front one was suspended a ship under full sail, high quarter-deck, and cannon ports, while farther toward the front door a gigantic fish seemed to be swimming in the air.

  9. Swimming was out of the question, even if he knew anything about it.

  10. But since I have found out that you go swimming at 9° I have changed my mind.

  11. The most dangerous was at the same time the most ordinary, because it recurred every time I went swimming in the sea.

  12. Toward the end he went swimming at nine degrees above zero (Centigrade), and the attendants were always rejoiced when he came out alive.

  13. Her head was swimming and her life was in a vortex.

  14. They crossed the bar and went into the water, swimming side by side with easy strokes, and when the return trip was half completed they saw the head of another swimmer coming out.

  15. Her head was swimming with the untrustworthy sense of some cord of control snapped; of a power or reason become unfocused; of a hitherto staunch morale breaking.

  16. There was a businesslike directness in the way he kept onward and outward until a comber lifted him and his swimming had begun.

  17. He and Conscience had often been swimming there.

  18. He responded with a level, swimming movement of his hands, meaning "the world is flat.

  19. It was not uncommon at Apia to see a young woman swimming alongside a small canoe with a passenger for the Spray.

  20. And I went on, making my Prick revel in that swimming cunt, till the floodgates of love opened and a rush of my sperm assuaged her burning lust for the time.

  21. Other detached groups were hastening down to the bank of the river, apparently with the idea of swimming across in some fashion, so as to gather on the opposite shore, and take the hostile battery in the rear.

  22. Giraffe; "he thinks you may make a slip and dump the whole business over the side of the boat; and Bumpus doesn't care to go in swimming with his suit on.

  23. I thought I was thirsty," said Bumpus, "but I guess I can wait till we come to a well that isn't used for a swimming tank by dogs.

  24. Fatimah found it at the bottom of her swimming tank," answered the sparrow, and he passed on, leaving the cubs staring at each other in wonderment.

  25. She was swimming here and there, conversing amiably with everybody.

  26. He would not again try swimming in a water which pickerel inhabited.

  27. His horn tore itself free, the bear was flung loose, and he lurched to one side with a violence that threw the swimming salmon overhead into confusion and sent great surges boiling to the surface.

  28. As he mounted the clear current he now encountered fierce rapids, and ledges boiling with foam, which put his swimming prowess to the test.

  29. Then he began slowly swimming round and round in a circle, still full of battle rage, but not yet able to control his lungs.

  30. In the next pool he delayed for but a few minutes, not resting, but swimming about restlessly and stirring up the other salmon with his excitement.

  31. Then, with a hungry look at the beavers, now swimming openly far out in the moonlight, he turned and shambled off to find some more profitable hunting.

  32. Once he saw a pair of swimming loons stretching their necks alternately as high as they could above the water, and opening wide their straight, sharp beaks.

  33. As the bear got his head above water, he choked and gasped, swimming high for a few seconds in the struggle to recover his breath.

  34. On the flanks of the flashing host he dived, swimming sinuously and with extraordinary swiftness like a seal.

  35. His closing sentences were spoken with his deep eyes swimming in tears.

  36. When Phil wound up with cakes and custards, apples, pears and nuts from the orchard and fields, his mind was swimming in a dream of luxury.

  37. Old "One-Armed-Juan" Esquejeda told of having goats taken from his place almost in the center of town and about the same time Willie Fletcher and some of his pals went swimming in a pool formed by a dam in Arroya Rico.

  38. Swimming togs were unknown but since it was a boy and girl group that got together after school they gathered up odds and ends that would serve as bathing suits for everyone but one small girl.

  39. In the simpler families both male and female cells return to the condition of a free-swimming protococcoid cell, and in all but the highest families the male cell requires a liquid environment, in which it swims to the egg cell.

  40. The nature of the male cell in Cordaites is not yet known, but there is reason to suspect it may have been actively swimming also.

  41. He had forgotten how it was that he came to be thus swimming in the river.

  42. He had, in his youth, been a mighty hunter and had so learned that he could tell wonderfully the ways of beasts and swimming things and the ways of slaying or eluding them.

  43. They were late when, after swimming the creek, they reached the Shell village and there learned that the party had already gone.

  44. Ab lifted himself in the waters and gazed upon the dark spot far away, and, piqued and maddened, put forth all the swimming strength there was left in his brawny body.

  45. Neither were the schooner captains believed when they reported seeing, on cold winter mornings, a man swimming in the tide-rips of Raccoon Straits or in the swift currents between Goat Island and Angel Island miles from shore.

  46. One day Aulay Macneill, in his boat, but dumb with amaze and terror for him, saw him at high tide swimming on a long rolling wave right into the hollow of the Spouting Cave.

  47. But if he be a father also, he says, "I am ready to eat my wretched son's head boiled, swimming in vinegar from Pharos.

  48. I'm just swimming in tears,' was the comment of Lady Erskin's daughter.

  49. There's genius in this room, gentlemen, but it's genius that started swimming up-stream with a millstone round its neck.

  50. She strove to look now, but a swimming dizziness was upon her and the shadows of the room were turning black.

  51. So with a rather white face, and looking very solemn, poor Harry set off every day for his swimming lesson.

  52. Swimming was out of the question, and even an immersion bath was attended with a certain amount of risk.

  53. I tried hard, by diving and swimming in this very cold and rapid river, to recover my goods, but failed to do so, owing to the depth and muddiness of the water.

  54. Dave, seating himself beside Prescott as three of the chums started for the swimming pool.

  55. Who'll watch camp this time while the rest of us go to swimming pool?

  56. Nothing was seen of the fugitive, however, and the boys picked up Greg Holmes close to the little swimming pool.

  57. Carrying clean underclothing, soap and towels from the tent, the other five started through the woods to a new swimming pool that had been discovered lately.

  58. Then for the swimming pool and clean clothes.

  59. With it Dick described the birthmarks he had seen on Tag when the latter was at the swimming pool.

  60. He was far out from shore, swimming unhurriedly to the powerhouse at the middle of the dam.

  61. It was of something big and bright and ungainly swimming silently in emptiness with a field of stars behind it.

  62. The mergansers, if they were mergansers, were still swimming about unsuspectingly, though sometimes at a considerable distance apart.

  63. Then there was a horrible fish from the sea that came swimming after me and bit off my legs.

  64. It was very difficult swimming because of the currents, and he had to dive to the bottom to get behind the pouring wall of water.

  65. Here one might see all the duck kind leading forth their young broods, or the eared grebe swimming with her day-old nestlings on her back.

  66. I have watched a vaquero ride into one of them and drown to all appearances, or seem to be swimming his horse across its billows, all of him below its surface as completely hidden as by rivers of water.


  67. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swimming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acrobatics; aquatic; athletics; bathe; bathing; crawl; diving; dizziness; dizzy; drunken; drunkenness; estuarine; fin; flapper; flipper; floating; giddy; gymnastics; littoral; palaestra; plentiful; seashore; shore; sport; swim; swimming; tidal; track; vertigo; wading