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Example sentences for "swooped"

Lexicographically close words:
swoon; swooned; swooning; swoons; swoop; swooping; swoops; swoor; swoord; swop
  1. She circled from house to house, and swooped down upon the inmates, flapping and croaking the old story of woe and foreboding; or, what was welcome in comparison, some new tale of further entanglement for Ray.

  2. Out of the midnight arch above him a monstrous sorrowing thing with a stubble of gray beard swooped down.

  3. Then the memory of last night swooped down upon her with the clamorous beat of wings and sleep departed.

  4. With the swiftness of a hawk, he swooped down upon her foot and kissed it.

  5. They soared toward the sky like iridescent birds, then swooped earthwards with the beat of celestial wings.

  6. The storm swooped down with sudden fury while we were watching the steam jets in the Mammoth Paint Pot throw evanescent lilies and roses in the coloured mud.

  7. The broken piers of Greycliff's ruined bridge menaced me from the mist as I drove past, and below the new bridge the sagging strand of a slackened cable swooped at me from the air.

  8. Down swooped the ravenous birds to their terrible banquet, as we turned away with a shudder.

  9. When he swooped closer the dove would spring up and meet him in the air, striking him at the moment of meeting, and again the daw would be beaten.

  10. If the Turks had ever suspected that we were thinking of withdrawing, they might have in the last two weeks of the evacuation, at least, swooped down and slaughtered the third of the force which was actually left on the Gallipoli strip.

  11. Later when Brant swooped down on Minisink in 1779, he did not cross the mountain into the Greenville neighborhood as the settlers then thought he intended to do at first.

  12. Whether this was due to the complete and perpetual reclamation of the place by the army of temperance agitators that swooped down upon it in the fifties, or to the belief that the warfare was utterly hopeless, is not certain.

  13. Mitiúrus ang ayruplánu ngadtu sa kaáway, The plane swooped down on the enemy.

  14. Banug da tung milakdup sa mga pisù, It was a hawk that swooped down on the chicks.

  15. Milakdap ang ayruplánu sa digíra, The plane swooped down over the battleship.

  16. Gisakdápan ku sa dakung banug, A big hawk swooped down at me.

  17. Mihúp ang banug ug nakadagit ug pisù, The hawk swooped down and got a chick.

  18. It swooped down, and just as it was about to seize the young birds, Ghvthisavari drew his bow, and killed it.

  19. When they had gone half way, a monster swooped down on the princess and carried her off.

  20. While Ilmarinen was searching, a huge monster rose from the depths and tried to seize him, but the eagle swooped down, and with one bite of his mighty beak, wrenched off the monster's head.

  21. A second time the eagle swooped down and struck deep into the pike's shoulders; but the pike dived to the bottom again and escaped.

  22. But as it came to the surface, the giant-eagle swooped down upon it, and buried its talons in the pike's flesh.

  23. Speaking of the enemy planes she said: “They swooped low over roads that were crowded with carts drawn by horses or weary old men, and two-wheel carts pushed by women and children.

  24. The plane swooped down and machine-gunned our lifeboats.

  25. Here and there a hawk swooped down from the azure to break the surface and bear off a wriggling fish that gleamed like silver, and at eventide we would see at the brink an elk or doe, with head poised, watching us as we drifted.

  26. Now and again a fish broke, or a great bird swooped down and slit the surface.

  27. An owl swooped by the house, shrieked mournfully, and vanished in the gloom.

  28. An owl swooped noiselessly across the fence, and Jimmy heard the distant howl of a timber wolf.

  29. The flyers soon made out the landing-field by reason of its white marker, and swooped gracefully down, while those below cheered.

  30. And, now, as the Sky-Bird II swooped downward, several attendants in white pantaloons could be seen running out of the building.

  31. And as it gracefully swooped down into the fair-grounds a little later, coming to a stop in a surprisingly short run over the ground owing to her braking feature, this elation was increased.

  32. Then she swooped down, and, hiding herself behind a buttress so that she could not be detected from below, she set herself to dig out the nearest blue stones with her beak.

  33. Shaking his wrist, the falcon seated on it darted into the air, and swooped down upon the quarry he had marked, which fell dead to the ground.

  34. The next night after supper they swooped down on him.

  35. Down we swooped like a falcon on a wild duck, and as we came the Jomsburgers howled and left their own ship, climbing into Ingvar's to fly the crash, while some tried to cast off, but too late.

  36. Then swooped down a merlin with flash of gray wings on the robin and took it, and that angered me so that I rose on my elbow to fray it away; and with that the last cloud left my mind and I knew where I was.

  37. It came to me suddenly, magnificently, swooped down on me as that big white moon swooped down on the black landscape, tore at me like a great white eagle-like the bird of Jove!

  38. A wild and exaggerated rumour had spread that the Mollendists had swooped in vast numbers on Mr. O'Hagan's hacienda; the Prefect's troops had been sent to drive them out.

  39. The rearmost were swooped upon by the exultant Japanese, who took an ample vengeance for the death of their comrade and the brutal treatment of their foreman.

  40. As he swooped meteor-like towards the gap the space on his right widened out, and the ground made a slight ascent to the brink of the ravine.

  41. Up there the wind, sucked out of the canyons, swooped and twisted hard.

  42. Like a swarm of bees the riders swooped down upon the racers, caught them, and led them up to Bostil.

  43. The wind blew from the west, and it swooped up the slope, hot, with the odor of dry, dead grass.

  44. Casting one last look into the mirror, she swooped under the large center-table, dragging Patty with her, and disposing their various frills and ribbons under the long-hanging tablecover.

  45. Bettermann swooped at him again, choking with words; the captain stood like a monument callous to his white and stammering rage, the personification and symbol of his caste and its privilege.

  46. And out of the tangle of his gesticulations, the whip-lash swooped across the sidewalk and cut Waters heavily across the neck.

  47. Goodwin, and out of the darkness panic swooped on him.

  48. In two minutes they reappeared with the empty bier and white cloth, and scarcely had they closed the door when a dozen vultures swooped down upon the body and were rapidly followed by others.

  49. At least a hundred birds collected round one of the towers began to show symptoms of excitement, while others swooped down from neighboring trees.


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