Example sentences for: swings

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

  • Parks and play areas: Children’s play areas (Kinderspielplatz), with swings and climbing frames, can be found all over the city.

  • The Peace Hotel’s jazz band, performing here since the 1930s, still swings every evening in the north wing.

  • Spaniards have earned a reputation as consummate partiers, and while Barcelona may not be as fanatical about late nights as Madrid, it is still a place that really swings when the sun goes down.

  • Paradoxically, though, while it's often used as part of insanity pleas, PTSD implies not that its victims are crazy, but rather that they aren't . Before PTSD became a recognized disorder, after all, a Vietnam veteran suffering from hallucinatory flashbacks and wild mood swings looked, to the benighted layperson at least, nuts.

  • Wilco, the No Depression -approved band with the strongest fan base, swings between down-home sentimentality and rock aggression: The lyrics to a new song, "Misunderstood," begin with spare piano accompaniment and local color ("You're back in your old neighborhood/ where the cigarettes taste so good") and end with feedback and tantrums ("I'd like to thank you all for nothing at all!"


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