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Example sentences for "swung round"

  • Gladys laid down her pen and swung round in the chair.

  • Jimmy had been standing with his elbow on the mantelpiece; he swung round sharply.

  • Startled, both the Basha and his wazeer swung round.

  • He swung round, and pointed across the water to Trefusis Point and the grey pile of Godolphin Court all bathed in sunshine now.

  • He swung round again to face her, amazed, horror-stricken.

  • His voice was husky, there was a moisture in his eyes which almost made Stafford's grow dim; then, with a swift return to his usual alert and sanguine manner, Sir Stephen withdrew his hands and swung round.

  • The luck was dead against me for a time, the old luck that had haunted you and me; then it swung round completely--as it generally does when it changes at all.

  • He swung round to the fat man by his side and clutched his arm.

  • He, bending to field the ball, missed it, swung round to run after it, and fell sprawling over a tussock of grass, amid yells of mingled derision and disappointment.

  • On arriving at the cross-road, instead of going straight forward towards the inn and the ambush, it swung round to the right, and at Harry's orders the postilions whipped up the horses and drove at a headlong pace towards the castle.

  • Hearing Harry's step just behind him, Aglionby at length halted, swung round, and fired his pistol.

  • He swung round on his elbow and looked keenly at our hero.

  • Then he crawled on again, till of a sudden he swung round, and, with a cry of dismay, leaped to his feet.

  • Then he swung round, as if a thought had occurred to him, and he had realised that there was time yet to save an explosion.

  • Without attempting to finish the job we already had on hand, we swung round in the direction of the newcomer, just in time to see him advance into the open.

  • We swung round in the direction of the sound and I saw the underbrush sway and part.

  • He swung round in the direction I pointed, and for one awful half-minute there was a dead silence, as the whole five of us stood watching one another for the first sign of attack.

  • Without further ceremony, he swung round on his heel and departed.

  • When he could go no farther, he swung round on Santa.

  • He swung round to find a freckled, bare-legged urchin gazing up at him.

  • He swung round at the mockingly spoken words, to find that Santa had stolen up behind him.

  • Still, there's no charts that show these places quite complete, and the American came in because he'd have a man aloft to watch us and another taking bearings each time we swung round.

  • Stickine struck the deckhouse with his foot as he pulled over the wheel, and the Champlain swung round a little, but still the lights seemed to follow her.

  • The man beside him swayed with the wheel, the Champlain swung round to windward, and there was a roar when a roller burst into spray upon that side of her.

  • They hardly seemed to notice the eight troopers who broke from the ranks of the little procession; for at that moment the store cart was swung round, and the process of slowly backing it towards the enemy began.

  • He swung round on the troop, and with a sign drew all the men toward him.

  • He swung round to stare down into the depths of the ship, for sounds were coming from the prison in which Tom and his companions had been confined.

  • He swung round, and moving a few paces beside the track which the half-breeds had followed, joined it at an acute angle, making it appear as if he and his comrades were going in the same direction.

  • Then Hurley--for he it was--swung round on our hero.

  • Then it swung round again, slued across to the side of the road, turned completely till its back passed before his eyes and was again replaced by the front.

  • So it was, and as we drove on, ever nearer the fatal coast, it swung round again to the southerly, and the sun above us blazed out fitfully from among the breaking clouds.

  • Being a 'prentice, and not in the humour for knocks of that kind, I swung round on the fellow to kick him for his clumsiness, when he looked me suddenly in the face and uttered my name.

  • At the end of his endurance, he swung round with a nimbleness surprising in a man of his bulk, and flung his axe with unerring aim at his tormentor.

  • The Spaniard heard his movements and swung round; Dennis saw the startled look of terror in his eyes.

  • When the boat was out of danger it swung round on the current, and in a few minutes disappeared past the shoulder of the cliff.

  • The great brute uttered a furious roar, swung round, struck at the lance shaft, and rose up upon its hind legs to seize the aggressor.

  • It turned half away, and began to haul up the snow as if to make its bed there upon the floe, gazing across at the land the while; then with a swing, as if it were on a pivot, it swung round.

  • All at once he swung round on her, his face wrung with a sudden agony.

  • He swung round at the sound of her voice and the next moment she was crushed against his breast, his mouth on hers, his kisses burning their way to her very heart.

  • Without another word he swung round on his heel and turned to leave her.

  • Quickly he swung round, and looked at the sweet face of his wife.

  • He swung round on his heel as if dismissing the matter, and looked at the other two.

  • Then, as if he had decided suddenly, he swung round.

  • Captain Tristram was my father right enough----" He swung round.

  • He swung round, his features blank with the very violence of contending emotions.

  • He swung round on his heel, white to the lips.

  • He swung round, his hand still on the door.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swung round" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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