A white butterfly comes fluttering along the lane, and as it passes under a tree a chaffinch swoops down and snaps at it, but rises again without doing apparent injury, for the butterfly continues its flight.
The water in front of their bluff bows rises in a wave nearly to the deck, and then swoops in a sweeping curve to the rear.
Those extra doors into the nest are very useful places to dodge into when you're outside and a savage old hawk swoops down on you, or a fox makes a jump at you.
See how she flies high, round and round in circles, and then swoops for an insect.
It has eyes like telescopes, so that as soon as a mouse pokes its head out of its burrow it catches sight of it, swoops down upon it, seizes it in its talons, and carries it off to be devoured.
When it catches sight of a fish it swoops down upon it, plunges into the water with a great splashing, and nearly always rises again a moment or two later with the fish struggling in its talons.
The Frigate Bird, with audacious rapacity, when it observes the Gannet catch a fish, swoops down upon it and compels it to disgorge its prey.
The physician looks with another eye on the medicinal herb than the grazing ox, which swoops it in with the common grass.
Why, the text swoops you all; you cannot object yourselves beyond the text.
The Fear swoops on its prey from above; sometimes it is content with startling a man out of his wits, sometimes it frightens him in real earnest.
It may be music, but the writer of this is frank to say that the Japanese national hymn, with its weirdswoops and dives, curls and twists, seems like a gliding Strauss waltz compared with the Brazilian hymn.
Down swoops Jove's armour-bearer, and on high With taloned claws hath trussed him.
The weapon, urged amain, Swoops down, and cleaves their drooping necks in twain.
Then he freed himself, and, springing among the horsemen, he obtained a sword and fell upon the pikes and battle-axes with such fury as an eagle swoops upon a flock of long-beaked cranes.
The old soldier who could fight singly against a whole band of Germans and fall fearlessly upon them, as a hawk swoops upon a flock of partridges, was nevertheless afraid of unclean spirits, and wanted to have nothing to do with them.
The loon is to the fishes what the hawk is to the birds; he swoops down to unknown depths upon them, and not even the wary trout can elude him.
Even the swallow will fight the cat, and, relying too confidently upon its powers of flight, sometimesswoops down so near to its enemy that it is caught by a sudden stroke of the cat's paw.
Great was their concern, first at the Russo-Turkish peace which installed the Muscovites at the northern mouth of the Danube, and still more at the conqueringswoops of the Russian eagle on Warsaw and Posen.
Yet even at this crisis the commander, confident in his central position, and knowing his ability to ward off the encircling swoops of the Austrian eagle, maintained that calm demeanour which moved the wonder of smaller minds.
Hither the goddess most beautiful first swoops down, and marks Arruns from the mounded height.
Nothing the blessed winged-one replies, But swoops descending from the starry skies.
CXXI The fowls are heard in air; thenswoops amain The covey well nigh in that instant, rends The food, o'erturns the vessels, and a rain Of noisome ordure on the board descends.
This in the feathered monster breeds no fear; Who to a distance shifts, and swoops again.
CXXIV But not for this doth Rodomont refrain: He swoops upon the Child, unheeding aught: So sore astounded is Rogero's brain; So wholly overclouded is his thought.
XXXIX "The ravening kite soswoops and plunders, when Hovering above the shelterd yard, she spies A helpless chicken near unwatchful hen, Who vainly dins the thief with after cries.
I think when a bird takes its great swoops through the air it must feel like we felt that day.
He swoops down over suspicious places, where he thinks guns may be lurking, hoping that the enemy will betray its presence.
The leader detects the convoy, swoops down, suddenly launches his missiles, and re-ascends.
He swoops down, and when a short distance above the apparently innocent copse, circles round it two or three times.
Having fulfilled his duty as sentinel, he soars to an adjacent tree, uttering that sneering twang which is his one paltry attribute, and when a fish is thrown into the shallow water he swoops down and is away with it to his eyrie.
When the pair meet, what time the fancies of butterflies lightly turn to thoughts of love, he swoops impetuously towards her and rises in a graceful curve, seeming to enchant her with the display of his colours.
Twelve successive swoops for a mullet flopping on the sand failed, though it was touched at least six times with the tips of the eagle's outstretched talons.
The bandit suddenly arrives, hovers, makes her choice and swoops down.
We are told of the Skua, that pirate of the seas, that he swoops down upon the fishing birds, at the moment when they rise from the water with a capture.
A Vulture, for example, sees from a vast height the body of a dead animal, and instantly swoops down upon it like an arrow from a bow.
A single Vulture, for example, sees a dead or dying sheep, and swoops down upon it.
But spare your tears; before Finis is written, down swoops the judge; the dogs are whipped off; Virtue is led to fair pastures and there left smiling.
The pilot just ahead turns tail up like a trout dropping back to water, and swoops down in irregular curves and circles.
Our warrior of the air swoops after him, tackles him once more and again we hear the wild defiant rattle of the machine guns over our heads.
The latter ascends in sharp half circles and again swoops down upon the biplane, driving it toward the German trenches.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swoops" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
