Example sentences for: swinging

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

  • An article says the pendulum is swinging back in sexual-harassment cases: It's the accused, not the accusers, who are now winning million-dollar judgments.

  • !) to "swinging" London, which has recaptured its 1960s hipness: Oasis and Blur are much admired; so is fashion enfant terrible Alexander McQueen.

  • Swive (1386), to copulate (1483) with a female, shares with swinging (1400), a sense of motion, the former deriving from swivel (1307), a coupling device which accounts for the swivel chair.

  • The book's conceit--an artist awakens in a world of monkeys that mirrors modern "Swinging London"--is alternately judged a "slender idea for satire" (Kakutani) and a hilarious metaphor for "the modern urban savanna" (Gary Krist, the New York Times Book Review ). (Click here for Sarah Kerr's review in Slate and here for an excerpt from the book.)

  • And now they turned to us, this sea of people, more than three hundred of them, shouting and screaming, men swinging fists and weapons, women swinging heavy purses, little children clawing with their fingernails at the faces of anyone they could reach.


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