Romulus, the collie, went up to the burrows and the old owls came swooping over his back screaming shrilly--the milkers told me that they often struck him so violently they nipped more than his hair!
In swooping to the ground suddenly, the hawks would hollow in their backs, stick up their tails, drop their legs for ballast, and so let themselves come to earth.
From high in the air, he would come with a whirr, swooping down so close over our heads that Canello started uneasily and wanted to get out of the way.
And if they're attacked--the fliers comeswooping down within minutes to defend or avenge them.
Even as they fell, the air was torn by explosions as the swooping fliers opened fire.
Swooping past the new semaphore tower, and skimming above the lofty chimneys of the electric light station, the "Meteor" shaped a course towards the Town Hall clock tower.
Swooping downwards, but still maintaining a superior elevation, the "Meteor" began to chase.
Swooping with giant wings in careless ease, the albatross followed us day in and day out.
One of them needs must be hanged, and was rescued just in time by an ever-swooping mother.
Yet one day when a great goshawk came swooping over the Swamp, the stranger, keeping well under cover himself, tried again and again to drive Rag into the open.
One day as they fed on the near clover field a red-tailed hawk came swoopingafter them.
XI E'en as tow'rd your face I lean Swooping nigh the gates of bliss, I the king and you the queen Crown each other with a kiss.
Three hundred leagues on our homeward road, We strove to signal him, swooping nigh, That he would ease his decks of their load Of nettings and fights and artillery.
His heart felt light as a swallow he had seen that morning; swooping at a grey feather, carrying it along, letting it flutter away, then diving to seize it again.
And she was talking so well--swooping with swift wing this way and that.
No more than in the flights of autumn birds, swooping down, alighting here and there, passing on.
The red blood that ran from its neck had brought a black raven swooping down upon the snow.
As usual, the feudal barons were swooping down from their strongholds to hinder the trade and traffic of the Commune.
The castles surrounding the city barred all outlets for commerce; armed men were always swooping down from them to attack and maltreat all pack trains issuing from the city to convey its products and merchandise to neighbouring towns.
The surf was rolling up the shore, the mackerel gulls were swooping and dipping along the strand, the beach grass was waving in the wind.
It came in a swooping downpour that beat upon the trees and bushes and roared upon the roof of the chapel.
The Harpies, swooping down from some unseen den of destruction, ever snatch the food from my mouth.
But on a sudden, swooping through the clouds, the Harpies with their crooked beaks incessantly snatched the food away from his mouth and hands.
Swooping low it dug its sharp, strong beak into Warruk's back just above the root of the tail.
For so revolvingly appalling was the white whale's aspect, and so planetarily swift the ever-contracting circles he made, that he seemed horizontally swooping upon them.
Don't you think it's next door to foolish for us to head up to the peak with that storm coming swooping after us?
The animal, attracted by the clamor, looked up, and seeing that monster bird as he believed swooping down at him, turned tail with frightened yelps and ran away.
It was beautiful to watch them swooping in great arcs over the gorse and bracken, and then darting straight, with unerring accuracy, to the mouth of their tunnels.
The pitched battles of the animals they can understand, because they can see the kestrel swooping down upon the linnet, the weasel scenting the spoor of the rabbit to his burrow.
As soon as the house-martins became aware of this fact, they drew nearer and nearer to us in their long curves of flight, swooping down upon the insects attracted by our presence before they had time to arrive at the verandah.
The big shells hung for an instant in the air like birds of prey, and then could be seen swooping down here and there, while now and anon a shaft of smoke rose straight to the sky, the black monument of a home.
As she nears the house, the gleam of lights from between the ill-closed shutters attracts her, and suddenly through the swooping rain come the sounds of several voices in tones of riot and revelry.
The eagle, swooping upward out of reach, swung round and hovered as if about to repeat the attack.
Then, as if his own nerves knew by sympathy the exactly proper moment for the next move in the game, Logan made a swooping forward plunge with the blanket.
Tail and hind legs had been nimbly drawn in just in time, as if forewarned of the swooping peril; and the hawk flew off heavily, to resume his quartering of the pasture.
The planes were on the same principle as a bird's wings when it is gliding or swooping down from a great height.
Like an eagle swooping down from the heights it fell toward the earth, and a little later it had assumed an even keel and shot over the finishing line, a winner by several lengths.
Clare heard the changed cry of his friend, and came swooping like the guardian angel he was.
Perhaps she knew she did not deserve politeness; anyhow she took Clare's for impudence, and came swooping upon him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swooping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
