Example sentences for: swivel

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

  • The OED does not include swivel hips but many school teachers were once called, out of earshot, “Miss Swiviel Hips” and the thought expressed, “I'd like to have that swing on my porch.”

  • After finishing a town meeting, McCain embarks, washes his hands with germ-killer and assumes his swivel throne in the front section.

  • The young gods swivel, unwind, suspend themselves in air, the orange orb that spins from their fingers as splendid for an instant as the sun, until it drops--swish!

  • I'm not giving it another moment's thought on account of I'm too busy writing my novels, and if somebody wants to read one of them instead of sipping a whisky highball and kicking back in an Adirondack chair or an eight-dollar swivel chair or a pig iron porch swing covered in fifty-cent Montgomery Ward paint from a paintcan he keeps on a ledge in the fallingdown barn where his people have been begetting quadroons and octaroons and sixteentharoons and thirtysecondaroons since the time before they thought to write it down, that's nobody's business but his own.

  • And stand by for seats that swivel out for easy entry and exit.


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