Example sentences for: swiftness

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

  • I would vastly prefer to travel by aeroplane--there is no substitute for the swiftness, the ease, the comfort--but here we are, bumping along the ground like a crippled millipede, waging a campaign that could have been waged in the latter days of the last century."

  • Moving with uncharacteristic swiftness, the vice president's campaign wangled an invitation to meet with the students and hastily rearranged [Gore's] schedule."

  • The scene is vintage McEwan--in its suspense, its violence, and the sickening swiftness with which it unfolds.

  • It growls and snaps at the air, and though it does manage to stomp one victim (who, in a nice touch, sticks to the bottom of its foot like a piece of gum), in general it moves with such a lumbering gait that we might as well be back in the '60s watching Valley of the Gwangi . Where is the lethal swiftness of the predator?


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