Example sentences for: swish

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

  • Another obvious bonus, although impossible to over-emphasize, is the absence of cars, the simple joy of wandering around a town relieved of traffic and pollution, of standing on a little humpback pedestrian bridge far from the Grand Canal and hearing only the water lapping against the moss-covered walls, or the occasional swish of a sleek gondola that appears out of nowhere.

  • Last week, announcing his candidacy for president, Bill Bradley compared politics to basketball, recalling his love of discipline, teamwork, and "the swish of the net."

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  • But perhaps after a hundred years of skirts that liberate and expose, women will again feel the desire for fullness, drag, and bulk in their skirts; for the chance to swish, trail, and sweep; to swing heavy fabric from the hips; maybe even to lift heavy folds in front of the belly--or simply to have another way of muffling unsatisfactory legs with something that isn't pants.

  • A video replay of the speech, however, shows that the swish was the sound of a jump shot missing the rim altogether.


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