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.”

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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