Example sentences for: swann

How can you use “swann” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In Swann's Way , Marcel Proust compared the little phrase of the composer Vinteuil, the "national anthem" of Swann's love for Odette, to one of "those interiors by Pieter de Hooch which are deepened by the narrow frame of a half-opened door, in the far distance, of a different color, velvety with the radiance of some intervening light."

  • With the injustice self-evident, the NAACP and other civil rights groups trolled for parents to challenge the system, finding Vera and Darius Swann.

  • H. Kirke Swann, in his Dictionary of English and Folk-Names of British Birds (Witherby and Co., 1913, republished by Gale Research Company, Detroit, 1968), gives Hern, Hernshaw, Hernseugh, Hernsew, Harn, Harnser , and Harnsey as names for the Common (Grey) Heron.

  • Newspapers noted the perfect symmetry--busing had begun with the Supreme Court's 1971 Swann vs.

  • But when he examined the Swann case he realized that Charlotte's school board was plainly in violation of the law and that it wasn't going to desegregate unless forced by the courts.


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