Example sentences for: sway

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

  • Now we seem to be engaged in a rapid rewind of the morality tape, zipping right through the age of Victoria to the time when the rules of droit du seigneur held sway.

  • But some skeptics disagree that any Internet issues will sway the electorate at large.

  • For example, the order in which a doctor presents options can easily sway people.

  • By necessity, systematic reviews come many years after hypotheses are first raised, and in the interim recommendations for practice may sway back and forth.

  • His meetings last week with President Clinton and Yasser Arafat were roundly applauded for rebuilding relationships former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had soured, but David Plotz explains in Slate why Israelis are . In the Washington Post , Henry Kissinger warned Israelis not to leave the United States out of the peace process, while an op-ed piece in the Israeli paper Ha'aretz cautioned that congressional Republicans, under the sway of the right-wing Israeli Likud Party, will "throw spikes into the newly energized peace train."


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