Example sentences for: swinging

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

  • 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.

  • In other British press editorials Wednesday, the conservative Daily Mail said that "public opinion is swinging in favor of an invasion" and that "the launch of a ground offensive seems likelier every day"; the Times "that it may take ground troops, backed by massive air power, to drive them [the Serbian forces] out of Kosovo"; the Daily Telegraph that Bill Clinton and Tony Blair should rapidly sanction "the Nato ground offensive that would be required to bring Serbia to heel"; and the Guardian that the West was sending a signal to Belgrade "that ground action is becoming an available option for Nato, should the air campaign bring no acceptable result, but that an opportunity remains for settlement before a decision on ground action is made."

  • The residents engage in their business, swinging from branch to branch, and they flock to Bukit Sari, the temple, while hawkers swarm around the visitors.

  • If the photograph on the back cover, of an extremely attractive lady swinging, Tarzan-like, through the jungle, is of Ms.

  • Seconds speaks not only to the swing voters who are swinging so decisively to Clinton that he leads in normally Republican suburbs and states; it captures and plays upon the mood of an electorate that this year seems to despise the negative ads if they involve personal attacks.


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