Example sentences for: swipe

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

  • In the course of her protest, she takes her second swipe in recent weeks at feminist writer Naomi Wolf and notes that "Susan Estrich, a leading feminist, top expert on rape law, campaign manager for Michael Dukakis's Presidential bid and the first woman president of the Harvard Law Review, has written a screenplay with her husband, Marty Kaplan, about a prostitute who teaches her two girlfriends how to lure and hang on to men by learning erotic techniques."

  • In the toy-store scene, for instance, Oskar says of a neighbor who also took part in the great national pogrom, though he wasn't in that particular store: "Meyn was not there," he says, "just as the ones who were there were not somewhere else"--a swipe at all the Germans who claimed not to have been around whenever Nazi crimes took place.

  • One caution: People get cross if you swipe the baby Jesus out of their nativity scene, even if you replace it with something better, like a live monkey.

  • Likewise, Buchanan, until now not known as a friend of Asian immigrants, sheds crocodile tears for the Japanese-Americans interned during World War II--apparently so he can take another swipe at Franklin Roosevelt.

  • To be sure, Gore still takes the odd swipe at Bradley.


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