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Example sentences for: sway

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(Witness their ubiquitous, clever advertising on behalf of Trainspotting and The Crying Game .) They promote shamelessly, pioneering the practice of calling Academy Awards voters to sway their votes.
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.
Our count of 66,000-75,000 transcriptional units on the genome is consistent with gene count estimates [ 28, 29] that had held sway until recent widely varying estimates [ 17, 30, 31].
With the advent of crack cocaine in the mid-1980s, the civic credos of "getting tough" and "just saying no" carried the weight of common sense and enjoyed sway in schools, print, and on the airwaves.
Though the cave itself is not impressive by Cretan standards, it held a powerful sway over its ancient people.