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Example sentences for "swished"

Lexicographically close words:
swirl; swirled; swirling; swirls; swish; swishing; switch; switchback; switchbacks; switchboard
  1. While his pigeons encircled the sky and swished the air, the villagers straightened his twisted, little body and slipped it into a narrow box, and lowered him down.

  2. But a quick snap of a stick from Betta, as she swished it back of Nora's bush, kept her from stepping out.

  3. Then she swished her dish towel in the air with such a jerk it snapped like a whip, and realizing further argument would be useless, she turned back into her own quarters.

  4. We will charge now," he sang out, standing there before the column as cool as an iceberg, while he swished the air with his ridiculous little cane.

  5. Almost at the same instant a cutlass blade swished over his head as a second gunner made a wild cut at him, and striking the barrel of the musket swinging on his back, cut a deep grove into it.

  6. Something swished in the air, a bright object shot up from the black abyss, and the prisoner gripped an iron hook, to which a stout rope was attached.

  7. It was in Needham's Copse, the very place Finch and Harris were swished for going through.

  8. Rank grass, high as the saddle-bow, swished past the horse's sides and rippled away in an unbroken ocean of green to the encircling horizon.

  9. It was dark long before we had neared Fort Douglas and the waters swished past with an inky, glassy sheen that vividly recalled the murky pool about the beaver-dam.

  10. And then the rope swished out, its loop widening and writhing.

  11. After a few minutes a bicyclist swished along through the mud, taking the far side of the road, which was comparatively free.

  12. Then the portières swished together, and Adam was alone with Balsamo.

  13. She leaned over and swished his charger with her little whip, and slipped past him.

  14. The fun grew fast and furious; my little bamboo swished and bent; hooks were snipped off; I was excited and jubilant, when along came an itinerant parson.

  15. And her frizzy pigtails swished around with her arms--just like the sails of a windmill that had suddenly gone mad.

  16. It swished across the railroad track and swept on its way toward the little town.

  17. The monster tornado that wrought such havoc in Omaha leaped across the Missouri River and swished its wicked tail through Council Bluffs.

  18. Jock regaining his feet dashed in, jumped aside, feinted again and again, as he had learnt to do when big horns swished at him; and he kept out of reach just as he had done ever since the duiker taught him the use of its hoofs.

  19. A horse, meditating in the shade of one of the hickories, lazily swished his tail.

  20. The girl swished her skirts defiantly and returned to the window.

  21. Little by little the wolves drew away from the hollow as the bullets swished amongst them.

  22. The rain pattered and swished in the garden; a water-pipe (it must have had a hole in it) performed just outside the window a parody of blubbering woe with funny sobs and gurgling lamentations, interrupted by jerky spasms of silence.

  23. With a sound like that of tearing silk, or of a gigantic contralto mosquito, the curtain swished down, and swished up, and swished down again.

  24. He liked the way her dark-blue walking-skirt swished in harmony with her lithe, firm strides.

  25. Not a cry escaped her lips, as the sword-blades swished and clashed; she could hear the deep breathing of the combatants in that tomb-like passage.

  26. The rain swished in his face and the leaves gave forth a chilly rustle, but he held himself firmly to his task.

  27. The heavy butt swished through the air, and the very force of the blow jerked the weapon from Skelly's hands.

  28. He contrived to throw down a woman standing beside him before the mini-balls swished over their heads, and the leaves and branches began to fall.

  29. Savagely I swished it back--it caught in the willows.

  30. With straining sinews and bones that cracked, the dogs bent to a heavy pull, while at the least sign of shirking down swished the relentless whip.

  31. A wet wind swished through the low, fanlike branches of the redwoods; the creek was rushing high and noisily.

  32. And for a while there was silence in the little house, while the rain fell steadily upon the dark forest without, and soaked branches swished about eaves and windows.

  33. Her face, framed in close-drawn hair the color of midnight sky, softened perceptibly as she swished round the great table in the center of the library and laid an unjeweled hand upon her father's shoulder.

  34. He took one step forward as Loris swished across the sitting-room, lifted the hard-rubber receiver and voiced a soft, "Hello!

  35. She swished her lavender gown behind her with a turn of a white, supple wrist upon which was a tiny, diamond-studded watch of superior make.

  36. Loris swished through the curtains, leaving the room empty for her passing.

  37. The soutane sleeve swished again as the pandybat was lifted and a loud crashing sound and a fierce maddening tingling burning pain made his hand shrink together with the palms and fingers in a livid quivering mass.

  38. Soft language issued from their spittleless lips as they swished in slow circles round and round the field, winding hither and thither through the weeds, dragging their long tails amid the rattling canisters.


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