Example sentences for: swift

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

  • This is known in copspeak as being swift , or as swifting someone off for whatever it is that is later decided upon.

  • Edward was furious, and his reprisal was swift and bloody.

  • It was part of a total package that included not only the golden shiksas but their brothers ("engaging, good-natured, confident, clean, swift, and powerful halfbacks"), their fathers ("men with white hair and deep voices"), their mothers who never whined or hectored, their curtained, fireplaced houses, their small noses, their lack of constant nagging worry--in short, the normalcy and confidence that go along with belonging, with being on the inside.

  • Just inside the woods is a pleasant picnic area beside the “natural bridge,” a massive slab of rock through which the swift waters of the Kicking Horse River have forced a channel.

  • The Lite Fight , which consists of “a simple opener and a swift final blow,” is what columnist Judy Markey offered the couple who want to save time with a pared-down version of the “fundamental, tedious, classic argument” ( Chicago Sun-Times , July 10, 1986).


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