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

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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.
How many passengers per hour can pass down a rail track, or down a busway?
Tom swayed on his backswing because his hands drifted too far away from his body, pulling his torso with them.
Light pains in my chest, the indeterminable gurgle in my stomach, a swaying before my eyes. Books in 2009, #5
Some postal workers specifically avoided the World Trade Centre because its upper floors were known to creak and sway in stiff winds.
Brooklyn itself was fine but calling 278 an expressway is a laugh. First we take Manhattan, then we..well...we go to Brooklyn.
Religious bigotries hold sway over individuals and communities. Times, Sunday Times
I WOULD like to see a new government stop businesses from being swayed by class when taking on new staff. The Sun
Fortunately, we drew a rational, deliberative judge, unswayed by the case's racially charged nature: a poor black kid against a rich white Ivy Leaguer.
To a soundtrack of cooking tips, paedophilia newsflashes and outtakes from the film Brief Encounter, she tries to seduce a stuffed tiger, intercutting her swaying flamenco with mad, petulant little flounces. Alonzo King Lines Ballet; Retina dance company, Collisions, Juliet Aster
He was muttering incessantly to himself, as if delighted at having found his tongue, his head swaying on his shoulders, and a strange murmur, soft, birdlike, meaningless, like sounds heard from a vast distance, coming from his wide-open mouth. Vandover and the Brute
Among the projects that will be jumpstarted with this new funding are the Midtown Tunnel tube in Norfolk, the extension of HOV/HOT Lanes on I95/395 and the widening of I-66 in Northern Virginia, work on the Coalfields Expressway in Southwest Virginia, and the widening and improving of multiple sections of Route 58 in southern and western Virginia. UPDATED: Key Democratic panel approves McDonnell's transportation plan
One night, after a Piranha editing session, Cameronwent to sleep with afever and dreamed that he saw a robot clawing itsway toward a coweringwoman.
It won't be overly swayed by the fashion to demand cuts at any price from oil groups. Times, Sunday Times
Commander of the Faithful, Abd al-Malik bin Marwan, who hath heard tell of the lord Solomon, son of David (on whom be peace!) and of that which the Most High bestowed upon him of supreme dominion; how he held sway over Jinn and beast and bird and was wont when he was wroth with one of the Marids, to shut him in a cucurbite of brass and, stopping its mouth on him with lead, whereon he impressed his seal ring, to cast him into the sea of Al – Karkar. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Pride, conviction and family loyalty have held sway. Times, Sunday Times
There was no drive, no swing, no sway. The Sun
The toll scheme could generate £740m for public transport improvements, such as busways and trams.
Cows swayed slowly in their sleep, a horse whinnied in its dream, and chickens bobbed up and down up in their nests atop rafters.
I never tire of watching this strange beast that lurches like a turkey and sways its neck like a swan.
The Ming walls scenery belt along with expressway belts asas parks form Nanjing's unique green ecosystem.
I stands besyde yoo and sez a prayer for peace, and swayrs to do mah part, rite here, rite now. *bows hed* Don looks Mr. Fuzzybottoms!!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Brown, many times swaying from side to side, used humor to deflect his advancing aged, swore twice, joshed about old drinking days in Sacramento, and emphasized his past experience. Jessica Levinson: Brown and Whitman Face-Off: Many Differences, Few Surprises
Likewise, each planet holds sway over certain houses in a horoscope.
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The film opens on a small evening party: four individuals dancing, swaying, laughing disconnectedly.
It appeared some part of him was compiling a case where the facts had to sway just one man, Rebus Bantam, his own harsh judge and unappeasable jury.
A tuft of grass atop the wall sways right and left in the wind.
She often rocks, sways, twirls, jumps, climbs, leaps, gyrates and gets into upside-down positions.
‘What is it?’ said I. ‘Why,’ said she, ‘since God is rightly believed to govern all things with the rudder of goodness, and since all things do likewise, as I have taught, haste towards good by the very aim of nature, can it be doubted that His governance is willingly accepted, and that all submit themselves to the sway of the Disposer as conformed and attempered to His rule?’ Consolation of Philosophy
In it, he suggests we are too swayed by fashion and feeling. Times, Sunday Times
They swayed with the motion of the moving car, occasionally glancing around at the other passengers.
It's good to see that a subsequent jury was unswayed by the arguments of an ambulance-chasing QC.
As it sways precariously beneath the five-tonner, a small priesthood of caretakers will guide it to a washbasin and gently remove the ravages of worship and travel. Roy and His Rock
They were linked by a slack, heavy, silvery chain that swayed lazily when he raised his hands.
The planting in the courtyard, with tall swaying grasses and flowering shrubs, softens the hard lines of the steel and glass structures. Times, Sunday Times
The driver must have gotten onto an expressway or a highway.
Today's media is awash in advice for business managers, tips on how to command underlings, sway bosses and squeeze a bottom line.
For those, like him, unswayed by such arguments, there are, though, signs of a forthcoming shift.
As long as the paludal theory held sway, the chemical interpretation of this identity of the product in every latitude was easy. Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
So unless a cease-fire is secured, the combatants on both sides will hold sway.
Pearson searches for the period when such a stable, traditional way of life supposedly held sway.
Her quiet assurance has all the qualities of mineral, or rock - she is unswayable and sure. Times, Sunday Times
The Chalin sway, where Titus appears, is modeled after feudal China, and lends an exotic yet oddly familiar feel to that portion of the Entire. REVIEW:Bright Of The Sky by Kay Kenyon
And with a languid snap of his heels, he was off, his curled hair swaying ridiculously on his head.
Recent developments have swayed the balance of power in the region.
Bears, we joke, will get any stragglers, so we bunch up more tightly into swaying, giggling file.
Conservative MEPs have already decried the move as a crude attempt to sway public opinion towards a yes vote.
Though cross-island expressways had been envisioned by the Regional Plan Association in the 1920s, it was in the postwar years that the megalomaniacal urban planner Robert Moses made Lomex — a proposed 200-foot-wide swath along Broome Street requiring the demolition of buildings housing at least 1,972 families and 804 businesses — the centerpiece of his vision to modernize New York. Indignation Superhighway
The sailboat swayed on the stormy sea.
I wore flowery shirts and tie-dye pants and spent hours in a smoky arena swaying to never-ending jams and feeling the love.
No greater contrast is possible than to go from a city under the sway of a proletarian dictatorship to a royal city where a king sits in ermine on an ancient throne. Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship
The expressway rounded about the urban district.
He swayed, then crashed to the stone floor and the grease keg unstuck from his foot with a 'chug' and rolled across the garage, rattling as it struck the old debris, and bounced into the greasing pit. Funeral In Berlin
This arc of pristine sand sweeps around a bay backed by swaying palm trees. Times, Sunday Times
As soon as he was quiet the legserpent began to untwist and retwist, to uncoil and recoil himself, swinging and swaying, knotting and relaxing himself with strangest curves and convolutions, always, however, leaving at least one coil around his victim. The Princess and Curdie
Adjustments for a full derrière, long waist and swayback are also common for this figure type.
Sometimes the songs have a folksy sway, cool melodic lines unfolding with squeezebox sounds, soft basslines and understated percussion around them; sometimes, they coolly shuffle like the bouncier songs of Madeleine Peyroux. Half Seas Over: Half Seas Over
One day while on his regular beat Pc Vernon dropped in to Asda in Linksway, Horwich, to have a chat with security manager Ron Jackson.
Had they swayed the sceptre justly, they had been repaid the like, But they were unjust, and Fortune guerdoned them with dole and teen. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I
On the expressway, the ride is that of a plush luxury car.
They realized that, whether a man is most swayed by the one or the other, what he must most depend upon and desire, is a knowledge of futurity.
Iran has Revolutionary Guards stationed in Lebanon and it, effectively, holds sway over extremistShiite Moslem terrorist groups, such as Hezbollah, the Party of God.
Strands of her black hair swayed in the wind and the rest settled just under her neck.
Look around and ahead of and behind you when next you are caught in a traffic bottleneck on an expressway and try to account for the snarl rationally.
Thousands of ad campaign strategists flooding the DVR'd airwaves (and our Internet hours) with ignorable notions that are not swaying anyone with that blurry rhetoric. Richard Laermer: "Your Life Hasn't Changed By The Man Who's Elected"
In his lifetime he saw the English Church sway from extreme Puritanism to near Catholicism.
She was swaying from side to side and the men unshackled her from the ceiling and dragged her to a metallic chair, bolted to the floor.
Every perception enters an imaginal file, buds in arrest until swayed by a life-shifting rain or the blight of the news of an unknown person's death.
If bouncing around on a tour bus or swaying on deck leaves you feeling queasy, pack ginger capsules in your alternative travel kit.
She had danced in Viennese palaces, tangoed in Tashkent, and swayed to the music of Georgie Fame in Dublin. Macarena Lithuania
A shocked woman, who recognised him from the media coverage of his case, described how she saw him at a garage in Queensway about a fortnight ago.
Her blockage of Durgapur expressway marks the beginning of a new era in contempt for law. Is Mamata Banerjee Leading Political Lawlessness in Bengal?
The sexy swaying walk, the dark voice.
The guests of the banquet sway extraneously from portrayals as parasites, wild, carnivorous beasts and ravenous dogs to spoilt brats at a kids' party to well mannered socialites.
Shes talking to another woman with the same short curly brown hair, whos looking resplendent I always wanted to use the word resplendent and never had a chance before in some swaying, beaded skirt. The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
(For my Jewish brethren, merely call on your "davening" or praying stance, the back-and-forth sway as you commune with the Almighty.) USATODAY.com - You've got to see 130-mph serve to return it
Such cruelties though I abhorred very much in my heart, yet here was I forced to hold my tongue and contradict them not, as having not authority to oversway them. Bucaniers of America:
If a busway has to be closed, the buses would simply avoid that section by switching to roads. Times, Sunday Times
If the cosmos is against might, if the sun wars not with the planets but retires at dueful time to give the stars their little sway, what avails our mailed fist? Autobiography of a Yogi
When the length of the sentence was then announced, Coltman appeared visibly stunned, swaying backwards and forwards.
It is important to note that the pre-qualification process for the Queensway-Carleton Hospital Project did not involve ranking of the successful contractors.
The route will also form part of the M50 southern crossway which is due to reach Central Park by the end of next year.
Today she is as she was when we first met - shy, lissome, so slender a breeze could sway her, smiling; always smiling.
Slightly shell-shocked, we are led to our hotel nursing sweet memories of swaying palms and grass skirts.
This may look like concrete, but it's actually stucco filler that I can feel swaying.
Eels swaying through the waterweed and nosing up to the surface, a turtle sunning itself on a rock and stretching a hind leg lazily, and great big bearded dragons posed on rocks with their tails hanging down into the path, scaring – and being scared by – small children. Dragons in the garden
Weak abdominal and back muscles cannot support your spine and can lead to a sway back and weakened joints. Survive the Nine to Five - a woman's guide to working well
Her world is as yet unswayed by the opinions of others, which makes her tenacity so interesting and invigorating. Times, Sunday Times
Like Aerosmith at its best, Buckcherry has both the rhythmic sway to go with its rock-and-roll stomp and the raw charisma to get away with its period pretensions.
‘See,’ he whispered as her bra followed the path of her dress and her creamy tip-tilted breasts swayed and settled high against her slender ribcage. Mistress for a Weekend
God's own image in us is liable to complete dissolution under death's sway.
Life settlements appeal to investors 'appetite for "uncorrelated" investments -- ones that generate steady returns largely independent of the forces swaying stocks and bonds. An Insurance Man Builds
She took a pipkin from the hearth, where a small fire burned, though it was summer weather, as Dickie could see by the green tree-tops that swayed and moved outside in the sun, poured some gruel out of it into a silver basin. Harding's Luck
Suddenly, lightning lit the sky, revealing that beneath me was a sea of green, with waves and troughs, rises and dips that swayed in the wind like boiling water.
Moving over matter which has the qualities that we denote by the term fluid, the swayings which the air produces are of a peculiar sort, though they much resemble those of the fiddle string. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography
Then the three writhed together in a swaying tangle, struggling, sliding, and falling into the arms of their mates on the crosstrees. Chapter 21
Resist being swayed by people who usually play on your sympathy. The Sun
Ultimately, anagogically, linear time ceases to hold sway and the prophetic soul perceives past, present and future as one.
They drove on for another 15 minutes or so before she finally exited the expressway.
A fairly stiff breeze was blowing, but the branches of the willow trees never swayed.
What gives him the right to hold so much sway and power over Montserrat and the lives of Montserratians?
In plant terms these are familiar growth and development phenomena, such as de-etiolation, flower induction, wind sway response, regeneration, induced bud break/germination, tropic bending, etc.
No longer can the lowest common denominator or the common good be allowed to hold sway. Times, Sunday Times
Palm trees are swaying in the breeze, skies are blue and the sea is even bluer.
A fat-eyed parrotfish darted quickly underfoot and Peter swayed, one of his leg braces clinking against the back of a chair. DO NO HARM
If I didn't know better, I'd say she was putting a little extra sway in her step when she walked past me.
My room sways with foreknowledge of its imminent destruction. A MEANS TO EVIL
Patrick Swayze, Joan Crawford, Margaret Mead and Luciano Pavarotti all died from a more common form of pancreatic cancer, called adenocarcinoma. CNN.com
She's leaning there, supported by the banister, swaying slightly, keys clutched leaving imprints in her right hand.
She swayed gently back and forth to the music.
Busways have been adopted across the world as a cheap alternative to rail or tram networks. Times, Sunday Times
She is also less swayed by fashion. Times, Sunday Times
Money calls, but does not stay: It is round and rolls sway.
What she wants is to maintain sway over the party by forcing Obama to accept her terms for who the VP will eventually be (such as "don't choose a woman or my supporters will be pissed.") CNN Poll: Majority of Dems want Clinton to be VP
This arc of pristine sand sweeps around a bay backed by swaying palm trees. Times, Sunday Times
The brief acrimony forgotten, Sque turned her attention to the accessway that loomed in front of them. Lost And Found
The temblor, which injured almost 600 people, hit the northernmost island of Hokkaido hardest, but swayed buildings as far away as Tokyo, about 830 km to the southeast.
Money calls, but does not stay: It is round and rolls sway.
Palm trees sway on the backs of countless cotton shirts.
Swayze II, VW: Frontal leukotomy and related psychosurgical procedures in the era before antipsychotics (1935-1954): A historical overview. Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize
Sabrina swayed gently with the canter, her mother watching Sabrina's every move, as she kept the Clydesdale on the lunge line at a steady pace.
She has been offered a place by Education Bradford at Rhodesway but says her daughter has no friends there.
The undulating streams, swaying bamboos, sylvan surroundings and trekking tracts make Ganeshgudi and Dandeli unique holiday destinations.
THE only couple on the night who got the swing and sway. The Sun
His defense, that the street was nothing but an open sewer anyway, failed to sway the arresting policeman who marched him across town at gunpoint to pay a fine of one piastre four francs. The Path Between the Seas
I did not expect to discover that being a Christian might put one crossways with the assumptions that shape "normality" -- assumptions that make war unproblematic -- but like it or not, I became convinced that Christians cannot kill. Stanley Hauerwas: The Surprise of Being a Christian
The yellow youth in the grass skirt was swaying beneath a mango tree, muttering to himself. Times, Sunday Times
The Spanish language even has a verb, sabadear, which refers to praying on the Sabbath, for the unknowing Christian assumed that the swaying motion of the Jew during the Amidah was a special part of the Sabbath prayer. Conversas.
He stared off into the distant trees beyond the backyard fence, watching them sway with the slight breeze.
He nods towards a phalanx of priests nursing beer tankards, swaying dreamily to the white noise of the band crackling through the speakers.
Gently sway from side to side. Times, Sunday Times
Palm trees swayed lazily in the soft breeze.
As she floated into the tubular longitudinal accessway the emergency battle lighting flickered on. Genellan- Planetfall
An anti-sway bar is a metal rod that spans the entire axle and effectively joins each side of the suspension together.
There, cows and geese sway and horses pull carts past old men who sit motionless in the shade of a few broad trees.
Steil urinated, and watched in stupefaction how the upchucked sandwiches swayed gently on the water's surface. OUTCAST
Once that clears up, Vainio turns his prey down a dark passage, chloroforming them again until all you can hear is their drugged, staggering heartbeats and the swaying neon of the red-light district.
I am not swayed by these 'unswayed' super delegates. A Super-Delegate Meets With Hillary And Obama, Comes Away Unswayed
To rule mankind as benevolent tyrant was now clearly seen by our Lord to be a rejection of the will of God who does not impose his sway upon unwilling peoples or force them into submission for their good.
There are expressways, smaller lanes, on-ramps and off-ramps and intersections.
A middle-aged woman in a red suit adorned with a plastic button proclaiming “Jesus Loves Me!” offers a twenty-page service bulletin with a glossy purple and gold cover, and greets her fellow church members with a shouted “Welcome!” as she sways and claps to the music. American Grace
Our car was driving at a breathtaking speed down the expressway.
They twitched, swayed and finally did a lively little jig - but there was no bird in sight.
I was shutting down the 'pooter' and suddenly it felt like the chair was being shaken very rapidly, but I was also swaying, slowly, and I think it upset my equilibrium big word! Snell-Pym » Earthquake
The knife was sticking out next to me, as he was lying crossways on me.
As the train swayed it thrust the bouquet right into my eyes. Bliss, and Other Stories
Horses whinnied and the trailers and trucks swayed and shuddered. In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Earthquakes in New York: I thought I was just making it up!
Let's just say I am easily swayed: I found myself, an hour later, sitting on his face, grinding my hips against his mouth.
I heard trees swaying with the wind beyond the buildings.
Southend Crown Court heard how his vehicle hit a pothole which caused it to sway from side to side before tipping over and trapping his leg.
But despite all of the power and sway that awaits an early adopter, it's going to take a brave CEO with thick skin to enter the blogosphere.
After a given electoral defeat, the left consoles itself with the illusion that a cabal of this nature would have contrived the lowest, slimiest smear it could have hoped to get away with, found some moneybags to fund it, snuck it into the public debate, and swayed the weak-minded. Deconstructing Obama
A sophisticated sway and toothy smile are the last skills Gracie wants to practice.
When you slouch or stand with a swayback, you exaggerate your back's natural curves.
The town was snow-covered, too, and the frozen river, and wherever one went, the air was full of the gay jingle-jangle of countless sleighbells, while the streets were thronged with a motley collection of equipages, from the luxuriously upholstered double sleigh with its swaying robes and floating plumes, down to the shapeless home-made "pung" with its ragged, unlined buffalo skin snugly tucked in about the shawled and veiled grandma, who smilingly awaited her good man while he purchased the week's supply of groceries. Half a Dozen Girls
THE REMNANTS OF THE skybridge swayed in the breeze, screeching where the metal rubbed against the side of the Moana tower of the Grand Hawaiian. Rogue Wave
The trouble with this remarkable change of character is that Swayze simply lacks conviction.
Since New Hampshire Bush's campaign has swayed and buckled like a boxer who has been hit with a perfect left hook.
It is one of the only books that turns an unforgiving spotlight on the German people and how they came so easily under the sway of the dark cloud of Nazism.
The damp, hard floor beneath her was moving; it was swaying from side to side in an unsteady rhythm.
The care of the publique must oversway all private interests, for it is a true rule that perticuler estates cannot subsist in the ruinue of the publique." sic It's very difficult to hear the arguments against taxing the inordinately wealthy as reflecting anything of that evangelical sentiment and social imperative. Frank G. Kirkpatrick: Searching For The Common Good In Political Discourse
It wriggled slightly under her touch, swaying from side to side.
Apparently the object began to sway backwards and forwards as if it were searching for something.
She swayed unsteadily as she got up from the bar.
He stood and looked at them sway, feeling a unity with them as his body swayed to the same light breeze.
He swayed there for a moment, then charged head-down, blood washing across his face in a red curtain. THE KEYS OF HELL
Today she is as she was when we first met - shy, lissome, so slender a breeze could sway her, smiling; always smiling.
He swayed against the bedpost and his eyes filled with mischief. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
Upon reaching the child, the golden eagle "calumet" was gently swayed above it, while in the background the other "calumet" was waved to ward off disturbing influences, and the priests sang this song. Indian Story and Song from North America
Frustrated by this extreme confinement, sows engaged in "stereotypic" behaviors, which indicate poor welfare, like bar biting and head swaying. David Kirby: Humane Society Exposes Pig Breeding Horrors -- But It Doesn't Have to Be This Way
Views of these kinds, with their roots mainly in clinical observation and practice, held sway with many variations and some dissentients well into the twentieth century.
It is nature which appears to speak to us when she presents time-lapse photography of emerging seedlings, shots of swaying underwater flowers blooming or pinkish shots of the earth taken from space.
But it was clear he had done little to sway either side. Times, Sunday Times
The upshot of all this is that there's pretty much nothing I can say that will sway these people.
Time and again they swayed in their saddles and would have fallen had it not been for the men beside them, who had let go the bridles to steady the boys, at the same time rowelling their own mounts. Comrades of the Saddle The Young Rough Riders of the Plains
However, at most music shows these days, organisers and security personnel don't seem to mind exuberant youngsters climbing onto their chairs, just to wave and sway, keeping time to the music.
We must not allow fear to affect or sway the way we intend to vote. Times, Sunday Times
Well last night they rocked and swayed to a more smooth, samba kind of beat. The Sun
We must not allow fear to affect or sway the way we intend to vote. Times, Sunday Times
If I were to say to her ‘Look mum, evolution discounts genesis’, she would not in any way be swayed in her misbelief.
Better use needs to be made of the suburban rail system, and it needs to be better integrated with busways.
As they watched rescuers work frantically, another quake made the trees on the bank sway.
Serpentinite barrens are visible on both sides of the Staten Island Expressway where bedrock was exposed when new roads were cut during the mid-1960s.
He suffered swelling and abrasions to his head in the latest attack as he walked home from Rhodesway School in Allerton, Bradford.
He was swaying dangerously, teetering near the edge of the house.
And there befel between them great fight and sore fray and the sword went round in sway and there was much said and say; nor did they leave fighting till fled the day and gloom came, when they drew from one another away. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The commercial centers on a tornado ripping through the storm-ravaged area, debris littering the blacktop as a traffic light sways in the gale.
Of course, a handout might sway a few floating voters come election time. Times, Sunday Times
The whole boat swayed and tipped.
Whilst the empire was destroyed, the colony-states across the ocean survived and became the cities of the Khaiem, where the power of the andat continues to hold sway and hold rival nations, such as expansionist Galt, in check. A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham

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