sway

How To Use sway In A Sentence

• A drunk was standing in the middle of the street, swaying uncertainly and trying hard to stay upright.
• Democratic individuals, who in any case are likely to have similar beliefs and opinions because they are similarly situated, easily fall under the hegemonic sway of public opinion.
• I am afraid to lose, I fear this time, and I love it but memories. I could not forget the sweat on the pitch with the sway of the brothers, forget accompany me cry close friend, and forget the bright Star of that everynight, and those words have touched me deeply.
• He'd probably dismissed her altogether by now as fickle, shallow and all too easily swayed by other people.
• Relaxing, in amusement at her unwonted altruism of motive, she had drawn her moleskin coat more closely around her, and settled back to wait the other woman's pleasure in returning to the bright warmth that the pale-orange ribbon of light, wavering upon the swaying platform, harbingered. Undesirables
• She gets signed up for Amateur Night as a sentimental soprano soloist, is propelled on stage, moves her lips as the crowd makes noise, sways her body as if actually singing, then exits. “. . .all his race rose up before him in a mighty phantasmagoria. . .”
• She could walk without ever slipping on railroad tracks, across the tops offences, on swaying tree branches.
• Now his placeman is prime minister, to what extent does he hold sway? Diary
• Antioch held Edessa and Tripoli under its sway and was ruled by Normans.
• The whole board was swayed by the promises of gold, power and riches.