Example sentences for: swapped

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

  • Finally, at a farm in Perry, Iowa, Gore swapped his gray suit and tie for khakis and a barn coat, turned up the treble on his Tennessee accent, and strutted his ag-stuff, explaining that he wanted to step up antitrust enforcement against industrial hog producers.

  • Hashimoto has bowed to a "torrent of pressure from the United States, international investors, and elite Japanese business leaders" and swapped his trademark fiscal austerity policies for an economic stimulus package featuring lush tax cuts designed to persuade Japanese consumers to do some spending.

  • Ephron co-authored and directed the 1998 movie, You've Got Mail , a somewhat flatfooted update of the charming 1940 Ernst Lubitsch movie The Shop Around the Corner (which was also the source material for the even more charming 1963 Broadway musical She Loves Me ). You've Got Mail updated the earlier film's epistolary plot (two shopkeepers hate each other by day, each not knowing the other is the correspondent to whom he/she sends anonymous love letters by night) for the Internet age; in the new version, the two swapped messages via AOL.

  • Oil-futures traders may not look like sheep, but those were baaas I heard the last time I walked by the New York Mercantile Exchange, where the futures are swapped.

  • ANexis dump indicates that at least twice a day somebody tells the press he or she has swapped the horrors of work for the bliss of family.


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