Example sentences for: swivel

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

  • 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!

  • Now there's a riff on You Only Live Twice (1967), now a hyperbolic parody of Thunderball (1965), now a piece of lame slapstick involving an electrical swivel chair.

  • 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.”

  • Swive (1386), to copulate (1483) with a female, shares with swinging (1400), a sense of motion, the former deriving from swivel (1307), a coupling device which accounts for the swivel chair.


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