Then the door opened again and Mrs. Mosby cameswishing forth, like an echo of the whisper that had preceded her.
The young stock were standing lazily under the trees, swishing their tails, and stamping off the flies.
Just back from work she was stripped and sweating, swishing her tail, savaging her manger with arched neck, tramping to and fro on swift, uneasy feet as her lad laboured at her.
And all the while the men who were stationed on the ledges above kept up a terrible fire, sending their bullets swishing into the huddled masses of the enemy.
What else but watch them carefully, and send our volleys swishing into them when they do rise for their attack?
The phantasmagoria of fever pounded at his brain, his eyes and ears, but the steady, swishing rush of the sleigh drove them away.
A wind sprang up and whipped dry snow against the cabin window, and to the sound of its swishing wail Duncan MacGregor began to speak.
He saw smoke rising from the chimney, and when he dismounted and ascended the steps he heard a strange swishing and thumping, accompanied by a melancholy moaning which put him in mind of a dog scratching a sore ear.
Then she came up like a clumsy Newfoundland, with the water streaming from the platform and swishing through the machinery, and all on board drenched to the skin.
The movement of the blanket ceased; the soft, swishing sound recommenced.
Two snipes will often fly chasing each other, uttering this note, and making from time to time the loud swishing with the wings.
We are hurtling along a road at the top of a cliff; below the sea full of unexpected glitters, lace-edged, swishing like the silk dress of a dancer.
He bounded toward the swishing robes and blankets, but his impulse had found a rival in the blast.
The rush of the river grew louder and louder and there was a swishing sound that died in her ears almost as she wondered what it meant.
Satan, fidgeting, and swishing his great bushy tail so that it rustled against his horns, and still not really turning his mind from that ancient thought.
Frank and Steffens here, my wife should take care not to make a thundering noise, swishing away with her broom at my back?
Now you see, if you go on scrubbing and swishing about with besoms behind me, I shall keep writing all sorts of stuff and nonsense, and it'll all be printed.
He sprang back into the room with a startled cry, as it rushed past in the darkness with a great swishing of wings.
Yet, as the swishing of his feathers slackened and the roar in his ears died away, he heard in the short pause the ominous beating of great wings somewhere in the depths beneath him, and knew that the great pursuer was still on his track.
The strokes of its wings were no longer mere distant thuds that he heard when he paused in his own flight to listen; they were the audible swishing of feathers.
It seemed behind, and generally below him, but the swishing of his own feathers made it difficult to hear with distinctness, or to be certain of the direction.
And in the sunshine and the swishing of the sea, the speedier running of the empty ship, I slept a warm, sweet hour away, and awoke new.
A final crescendo of laughter, a last swishing of silks, a breath of perfume from the doorway and they were gone.
The swishing swelled to a mighty rustle as the door opened.
Nita swung into the tent, her grass skirtsswishing like the hiss of snakes.
A little later, under cover of the swishing of water in the granite dish pan, David spoke in a low voice to the girl who worked so happily at his side: "Take it as easy as you can.
The sullen murmurs of the waves were supplemented by the swishing of the revolving screws, or drowned perhaps by the former.
Down at the creek Dill was trying to get a trout or two more before it grew too dark for them to rise to the raw beef he was swishing through the riffle, and an impulse to have the worst over at once and be done drove Billy down to interrupt.
She saw Billy just in the act of swishing his quirt down on the flanks of Barney so that the horse almost cleared the creek in one bound.
The rapid movement of Mademoiselle and Elise with the contents of the box from the drawing-room into Mademoiselle's bedroom was the last rushing and swishing that preceded a considerable peace.
Gyrating in long curves, with the other dancersswishing mysteriously about them like the dancers of a dream, and the music as far off as another world, they clung together in the rhythm and in the enchantment, until the music ceased.
There came the swishingsound of the washing-out apparatus, and the clatter of the chain rammer.
He clambered down the ship's side on to the net-shelf, waited till a large sea came swishing past, and then slipped into the water, to vanish in a smother of foam.
It is the tread of footsteps, accompanied by a swishing among the palmettoes, that form an underwood along the edge of the swamp.
We opened the manhole cover to the for'ard boiler compartment, more steam and smoke came swishing out, and in the middle of it crawled out a stoker, with his face and arms terribly scalded.
The engine-room was quite dark, Tommy told me, and there was fifteen feet of water swishing about among the machinery as she lurched from side to side, and all the grease and filth from the bilges was floating about in it.
Outside the constant explosions had given place to a series ofswishing whistles, merging together into a sound as of water falling, only less regular, more sibilant.
Now and then the sulphurous flash of a shell explosion and the sound of trees falling and shell fragments swishing through the air.
There was nothing but the constant swishing and whistling of gas-shells, like endless pails of dirty water being thrown on gravel.
Standing in the doorway of the shippon she would watch him as he sat with his fair head pressed to the cows' flanks and listen to the milkswishing into the pails.
A minute later a renewal of the swishing sound told that the pumps were emptying the tanks at the rate of a thousand gallons a minute.
All at once the pace slackened, and the swishing sound ceased.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swishing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: babbling; lapping; rustle; splashing
