Example sentences for: swiped

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

  • The most melodically interesting track is the exhibitionist provocation of ""--a love letter to his gun--and it soon dawns on you that that's only because he's swiped the tune from Stevie Wonder's "." Otherwise, most of the creative energy seems to have gone not into the music, but into the dialogue and sound effects that precede and increasingly disrupt the songs.

  • The classic example: An automatic teller machine was swiped from police headquarters in broad daylight.

  • And, the next afternoon, Willis buys a fifth of Wild Turkey and surreptitiously slips it behind the bar of the blues joint to replace the one he'd swiped.

  • It was plundered by everybody, especially Bob Dylan, who swiped, alluded, and rewrote, so much in the spirit of the original works, among which lines and verses migrate freely, that he forcefully inserted himself into the tradition.

  • There were breathless charges, never fully proved as I recall, that someone from the 1980 Reagan campaign had swiped Jimmy Carter's debate notebook.


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