How To Use Swim In A Sentence

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I don't like swimming in the ocean that much either because the fact that all those fish have pinched a loave in there and it makes me a little squeezy. "It's okay to eat fish 'cause they don't have any feelings..."
There's no massive hills and the swim won't be rough. Times, Sunday Times
I left my swimming things at home.
The recent Australian National Championships and Olympic swimming trials give a strange story to the world of swimming.

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I'm going for a swim to cool down.
Erna Hart is going to swim across the English Channel tomorrow.
They are popular with scuba divers but you can just swim or snorkel. The Sun
The 27-year-old, who is in training for next summer's Olympic Games, began his swimming career at the Longsight baths by competing in galas there as a schoolboy.
In my scenario, the Senator tells the drowning person that it was the flailing non-swimmer's fault for falling in and not learning how to swim, not the Senator's doing, just before the erratic splasher goes under the surface for the last time. Norman Cressy: Musings II
The swimmer was swept away by the current.
Other amazing samples from the plant world will be revealed to the children, including plants with armbands to help them swim and meat-eating plants like the Pitcher plant, which is on loan from Cardiff University.
His head's still swimming so he holds on tight to her waist so he doesn't fall.
I have paid a small fortune in tuition fees to my local pool to teach both my children to swim.
The muskrat was a very good swimmer, indeed, and as soon as she reached the water she plunged in and swam about, to show Sammie and Susie how it ought to be done. Sammie and Susie Littletail
That demands strong swimming skills and hearty lungs besides.
She goes swimming every morning before breakfast. What you wear for this activity is usually called a swimming costume in BrE and a bathing suit in AmE.
a big fish was swimming in the tank
His eyes were black too, but had nothing of fierce or insolent; on the contrary, a certain melancholy swimmingness, that described hopeless love rather than a natural amorous languish. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
It is autumn and they are pumping water out of the swimming pool.
Taormina fell behind with a rough start in fencing, which is new to her, but made up the gap quickly in the swim and overhauled the leaders in the run to finish with 5,704 points in her debut. USATODAY.com - Athlete of the Week breezes through Windy City
They just can't help spending our money on receptions for anything from the synchronised swimming team to the world-acclaimed left-handed marlies champions.
Once upon a time, I was a camp counselor in scenic New Hampshire, where I taught swimming. 'America's Next Top Model' recap: Commercial success | EW.com
There are two large rooms that can be used for social gatherings equipped with a TV and a beamer and screen, plus a dining room and a well-furnished kitchen next to the swimming pool. Weekly
During summertime, especially in Saint Petersburg, the ducks and geese love to swim.
Today he's happily munching a cheese sandwich and talking about wild swimming. Times, Sunday Times
Swimmers have two practices daily grouped by age and ability.
T he swimmer who brought the Boat Race to a halt exchanged his wetsuit for more formal attire when he appeared in court yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
Siu said the maximum actual use instead of the maximum capacity of swimming pools was used to decide the number of lifeguards deployed.
The shell contains a gas which makes it semi-buoyant, permitting the nautilus to change depth and to swim.
Swimming is the most popular water sport.
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To speak generally, if we take all animals which change their locality, some by swimming, others by flying, others by walking, we find in these the two sexes, not only in the sanguinea but also in some of the bloodless animals; and this applies in the case of the latter sometimes to the whole class, as the cephalopoda and crustacea, but in the class of insects only to the majority. On the Generation of Animals
Swimming pools usually come under 'leisure centres' in the telephone directory.
*applies latex swim cap to hold skull togedder, then CHRG wdoi ober the swim cap* I told u - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Swimming with seals or sea lions is undoubtedly the most fun you can have with a wild animal. Times, Sunday Times
They have already taken a sunset swim and caught a fish at their first attempt at fishing. Times, Sunday Times
We were both in the best shape of our lives, and this swim would have been easy.
This child spent his first eleven years in San Francisco, trailing his father up and down the hills, watching him swim in San Francisco Bay, and cringing from the blows that a drunken dad might aim at his head. Robert Frost
Hydrotherapy - relaxed swimming and flotation decrease the energy required in everyday life just to support the body weight, allowing the diversion of this energy to recovery.
I used to go swimming, play paddleball and all kinds of little games at the gym, but no more.
This enables great whites to detect a heart beat of prey buried in sand from a faint electrical field or the action of a gill or a swimming muscle of another animal. Dr. Reese Halter: Protecting Great White Sharks
The swimming pool was decorated with fairy lights and floating candles and a table for the intimate party of 12 was set outside.
One of the city's oldest pools, the Yeoville swimming pool, has received a sparkling, multi-toned blue mosaic facelift.
And despite his numerous awards, trophies and honors, one still eludes him: a coveted spot on the U.S. Olympic swim team.
We were given the run of a sauna (which had a tea room) and access to a swimming pool for three hours, for the princely sum of $25.
From the tastefully appointed mosaic inlays and concaved walls adorned with statues and his paintings, the mosaic swimming pool and Japanese garden with plenty of creature comforts, make for unforgettable ambiance. San Antonio
He made our swimming mascot the 'ucker, which was supposed to be a colloquial way of saying "sucker," a trash fish, but was really so we could do our team cheer, "Be tough, be tough, be tough 'uckers" loudly in mixed company. Instead of Doing My Lesson Plan, I Idly Toondoo
TWO men were yesterday found guilty of harassing a dolphin on a boozy early-morning swim. The Sun
Swim the breaststroke for 45 minutes.
There is a shortage of Olympic-size pools and most of these are run on commercial lines, so British swimming cannot afford priority access.
Debenhams, a British department store that has consistently combatted various techniques employed by the media, banned airbrushing in its 2010 swim and lingerie campaigns. Marissa Lepor: Natural Beauty: A Lost Art?
All seemed to be going swimmingly - the satellite signal was nice and strong, the ISDN line connected with no problem, we were ready to broadcast.
As diatoms collect on the ocean floor and are buried deeper and deeper, they are compressed and changed from a form known as diatomite, which is used in swimming pool filters, to opal.
When you reach the Cabo Rojo National Wildlife Refuge, just south of town, mountain-bike a trail network among thousands of migratory birds, then cap it off with a swim in the nearby bioluminescent bay.
In order to get what he wants Esko dirties, bloodies, his hands in the waters any real architect must swim in. An Interview with Richard Rayner about Cloud Sketcher
I remember my ex-girlfriend was having a stressful day teaching swimming until 10pm. The Sun
Ian Thorpe stood atop the victory podium in Barcelona today as the first swimmer in history to win the same event at three consecutive world titles.
Despite the bright blue woodwork, the artfully painted sign, and the Fablon fishes which swim across the display window. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
Or should we take the local bus and go into town, hit the beach for sunbathing, swimming, snorkelling or windsurfing?
It all came swimming back to her, like a lazy river of memories.
Walking and swimming are excellent for releasing tension.
Through the mind-hopping Ezili, who "swims" through time and space, the novel's multiple strands exist simultaneously, suggesting that all three characters are, in some sense, plural aspects of a single woman. The Little Professor:
I could try to swim the river, but the opposite bank was steep and clay-sided and devoid of any trees along the mudflat. The Glass Rainbow
One of my friend told me that he fell down in swimming pool accidentally, and unable to swim. Goodbye Old Friend. R.I.P. Rajeev Motwani
But you can also swim with turtles, or don scuba gear and explore the corals and colourful fish of the deep. Times, Sunday Times
Never offer to teach fish to swim.
Campaigners hope this will lead to a revival of river swimming clubs. Times, Sunday Times
I can almost hear my heart beat in time with their intense swimming strokes.
The bridge can be a little confusing when conditions deteriorate, as it is draped in trawl net, but a diver can see and swim inside many parts of it.
Don't go out of your depth; you can't swim.
Style's fashion cupboard and my wardrobe are swimming in suede at the moment. Times, Sunday Times
Like many animals, people also learn to swim through trial and error.
By 4.30 I was cruising round Seymour swimming pool, parking on the blind side as far as Sedgeley House was concerned.
As a youngster growing up a small Mississippi town, Bob Dudley was a swimming prodigy with one of the speediest backstrokes in the state. New BP boss Bob Dudley 'doesn't need to fake his empathy for the Gulf coast'
It is low tide, which will help to carry the swimmers out. Times, Sunday Times
He also collected a silver medal in the 50m freestyle in which he was pipped at the post for the gold by a very slim 0.04 of a second margin in another PB swim.
There'll be ample opportunity to relax, swim and soak up some sun.
They swim up rivers and are often the first to use areas where fishermen dump their offal.
I don't think I've ever seen so many little puffers washed up, or even just swimming around, in that part of the beach before.
And if I have to sit wearing a swimming cap covered in electrodes to show willing, OK, so I will.
The fishes of this age were able enough coastwise swimmers.
Local ghillie David Dinsmore took a small party of Scouts to Addergoole river last Saturday, where all were surprised by the variety of tiny fish life that crawl, swim or wriggle on the river bed.
These included arts and crafts, swimming, knock out competitions, a trip to the cinema, drama, sports, bowling and a day trip out of town.
If a moffie can go to a club, why can't a moffie also go to the swimming pool," said Pamela Holland. IOL: News
From rowing lake and canoe rapids to velodrome and swimming pool, the cheers of frenzied spectators have been spine-tingling. The Sun
Many of the men crawl towards the rails, ready to jump into the water to swim ashore.
I don't think you'll get it by sitting in a bivvy in the same swim for weeks on end until eventually the fish come around.
Try the paisley floral pink, lime and mocha print in an elegant strappy swimsuit or a stripe bikini with ruched side pants.
Not a threadjack, but I can't believe Libby Trickett backed into the finals because the Chinese swimmer deeked! "The Excruciating Anguish of Elizabeth"...
Once you get to a size 14 you find that most swimwear in the shops is dowdy and frumpy. The Sun
Gadwalls forage mainly while swimming, either taking items from the surface or dabbling in shallow water, or diving, which they are more likely to do than most other dabblers.
A pool of apricot purée with mango-cube swimmers plays the role of fruity syrup.
The large garden around the swimming pool shone in the glimmering light of many multicolored candles.
I recall a mini-series on Cook's life in which, ice-bound and with the ship possibly breaking up, he commented to an officer, ‘I can't swim.’
Then what sounded like tennis shoes swishing through shallow water (I never had the courage to swim in water more than a foot deep) startled me.
His wife of twenty-two years is sitting catty-corner to him in a turquoise T-shirt with a tropical fish swimming across her chest; but her slim ankles are demurely crossed, the resting pose of one of those fifties starlets who swished around on-screen in full skirts, sheer hose, and kitten heels. THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB
Go drink your kalla and swim in your oneness and your memories - I don't care. THE BROKEN GOD
They can see hooks hanging out from the baitfish in clear water and they'll spook easily if they can see the bait isn't swimming just right.
He dived in and started swimming to the other side but within a few inches of reaching the far bank was pulled downstream by the fast-flowing current.
In contrast to the rowers and the cyclists, British swimmers seemed weighed down rather than buoyed by the roars of the home crowd. Times, Sunday Times
However, I also noticed that Speedos and swimming briefs are extremely popular on the beaches of Europe.
Her movements were fluid, economical and beautiful to watch, like those of a good swimmer.
Crocker, a 20-year-old University of Texas swimmer, was America's best 100 butterflyer until Phelps came along. USATODAY.com - Crocker sets world record in 100-meter butterfly
After knoll to see the Boundary Obelisk, we had a swim at Kau Leng Chung Beach.
The big boy ducked all the small boys in the swimming pool.
The most memorable pieces were undoubtedly Gucci's clingy, dress with a daring keyhole neckline and its slinky, cut-out swimsuit.
A sports science and psychology building would be built on the site of the existing swimming pool, health centre and squash courts, with a third building behind.
A lot of times, it's a two-loop swim, and the turn buoy is only 300 yards away. USATODAY.com - Kemper's reality: Swim, bike, run, get to the airport, eat
It asked them to choose between boardshorts and swimming briefs, more commonly known as budgie smugglers. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
He had a really light build, perfect for track and swimming, which were his two favorite sports.
All three buses stopped outside the pool, and each disgorged a tumbling jumbling pile of wee kiddies, clutching their swim-bags and chattering like flocks of birds on a nature programme.
Swimming in lane four is the weapon of mass destruction that donkey-licked the opposition in the 2011 World Championships.
It's just that its call is the harbinger of spring - a signal to start chucking chlorine into the swimming pool.
Worrell feels it's important for youngsters to take advantage of locally organized swim meets.
There are five swimming pools, eight restaurants and numerous boutique shops. Times, Sunday Times
When something like a black cloud passed among them, she knew that it was either a whale swimming over her head, or a ship with many people: they certainly did not think that a pretty little sea-maid was standing down below stretching up her white hands towards the keel of their ship. The Little Sea-Maid
The raw weather chilled our enthusiasm for a swim.
Built in Andalusian style, this boasts an institute of thalassotherapy equipped with saunas, swimming pools and massage rooms.
Swimming regularly betters the functioning of the heart and lungs.
The positive virtues are those of many a New England area: clear air, swimmable sea, home-grown tomatoes.
The broadness of the portunid sternum allows the appendages to project well beyond the lateral margins of the carapace and is an adaptation to the swimming habit which most portunids exhibit.
Among sports we have terms like parascending and surfari, and nonce adjectives such as sportsational or swimsational which blend words with the last element of sensational.
He said he had not been afraid during the sinking because he is a strong swimmer. Times, Sunday Times
Shall we go for/have a swim this afternoon?
Sacramento August 6, 2010 - Due to its potential health risks, federal, state, and tribal agencies are urging swimmers, boaters and recreational users to avoid contact with blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) now blooming in Copco and Iron Gate YubaNet.com
The Norwegian Magosphaera planula, swimming about by means of the lashes or cilia at its surface. The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
How can they be swimming lifetime bests so late in the game?
If a Romney drowns in a river, they were probably trying to commit suicide, but changed their minds, and then irrationally swam upstream, thinking they would be saved because they'd had this stupid expression drummed into their heads that swimming upstream was a good thing to do, even though it's not. "What the Hell is Mitt Romney Talking About?"
She is swimming lengths in the club pool and walking as much as she can rather than grabbing lifts.
About the time of hibernation a few tunnies or other hibernating fishes are caught while swimming about, in particularly warm localities and in exceptionally fine weather, or on nights of full moon; for the fishes are induced (by the warmth or the light) to emerge for a while from their lair in quest of food. The History of Animals
You can write about swimming, skiing, or anything else you enjoy doing.
They can spend their time here relaxing, walking, sunbathing, swimming and scuba diving.
There are strong tidal currents in the area as well as mud, which can trap waders and swimmers.
British naturists are doing a charity swim in Loch Ness in Scotland to raise funds for cancer research.
A large shoal of pollack can often be seen swimming above the engine.
Infinity pools (where the edges overflow with water) blur the boundary between swimming pool and decorative water feature.
She saw a school of orange and yellow fish swim past her; Joanna felt elated and blissful.
I learned how to swim by the unrecommended method of throwing a kid into a pool and seeing what happens. Archive 2007-05-01
Sportsmen and women took part in a total of 10 sports which ranged from archery to snooker and rifle shooting to swimming.
You can also tour the great house, have a Jamaican lunch of curry goat or ackee and salt fish, and take a swim in the pool.
She has blue pigtails and a white bikini one minute, a black bob and schoolgirl one-piece swimsuit the next.
Guests have complimentary access to a gym, swimming pool and health club. The Sun
The next morning after a brief flirtation with the idea of going for a swim, we set ourselves free from shore again and continued up the river.
She has had a number of different jobs, ranging from chef to swimming instructor.
Is it safe to swim here?
While afternoons at the camp will involve familiar activities such as canoeing and swimming … Child Abuse Alert
She is a keen gardener, bird watcher, photographer and swimmer.
Or you could just gaze at the view from the window of your indoor swimming pool. Times, Sunday Times
More baffles, in a herringbone pattern, will also be placed on the face of the weir, causing the speed of flow to be reduced, which will make it easier for the fish to swim up and over the weir.
He was also a good swimmer and very good at wheelchair basketball. Times, Sunday Times
There are only 60 swimming pools in the entire country.
He screamed, but his friends did not hear him and he could not swim across a strong current to reach them. Times, Sunday Times
At sea the crusaders maintained a naval blockade, breached by daring blockade-runners or professional swimmers who delivered messages to the besieged garrison. Times, Sunday Times
A range of events featuring freestyle, butterfly, sidestroke, backstroke and medley races saw the kids battle for supremacy as to who would be the king and queen of the pool in their age groups and for their swimming club.
For its bulk, the whale is a graceful swimmer.
People were having fun in the pool, swimming or just splashing around.
The crowd enjoyed a diving display before the swimming races.
Strap on a mask and snorkel, and you can swim with sea lions, so curious and friendly that they will brush past your face.
Likewise, we've endured the ever-dreaded swimsuit competition and the nerve-racking interview segment, in which at least one contestant routinely flops.
When a fish bites, the sliding sinker enables it to swim a short distance with the bait before feeling resistance.
A narrow gut of shingle and sand leads out to sea for the swimmers. Times, Sunday Times
We did dinghy drill in the harbour and this usually finished with us swimming around in the beautifully clear waters of this sheltered haven.
I swim here with Byron because I dread to swim alone, and tolerate all his impudent remarks.
The swimming pool is filled up with mud.
The swimmer was sent home from the Olympics in disgrace.
If you're a non-swimmer, take a tour that brings you to a coral cay rather than the open sea.
There are all sorts of combinations and none of them involves a swim across a freezing lake. Times, Sunday Times
But we did compete in sack races, running races, egg-and-spoon races, swimming races, whatever.
Hunferth calls Beowulf a ‘mudscow’; Breca and Beowulf swim like two The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography
We take our bikes and we go swimming. The Sun
I swim 20 lengths of the baths every second day.
Molly won a bronze medal in the 200 meter backstroke, swimming a lifetime best of 2:16.42.
I wouldn't hinder your work,I'm going swimming right now.
The vessel makes only a handful of voyages each year for up to 12 passengers willing to pay to swim with whale sharks and green turtles. Times, Sunday Times
According to the plan, the water supply to fountains, swimming pools or for street cleaning was cut.
He took up swimming and diving, and joined a marching band, but the lure of the stage beckoned.
The forestry here, at the back of the swimming pool, will be cleared of soft woods leaving the native hard woods in place and will provide an amenity area for visitors and locals.
There was a car on the bottom of a large body of water and fish were swimming around it.
We stopped off at quiet coves where we could drop anchor and swim. Times, Sunday Times
The air temperature inside the largest natatorium ever built for swimming is a constant 79 degrees Fahrenheit.
Chlorinated pools are to swimming what decaff is to breakfast - there's just no kick. Times, Sunday Times
We could see fish swimming just below the surface.
Halfway there he got into difficulties and left me with two floundering swimmers to occupy my frantic mind.
But modern-day swimming pool chutes and ponies captured the imagination and attention of the youngsters.
Like the person who gets fat because they eat unnourishing foods and so is always hungry and so is always eating, she drowned in words that could not teach her to swim. The Women’s Room
Maddy Crippen, the sister of the former University of Virginia swimmer who died over the weekend competing in an open-water race, said her brother had voiced concerns about safety. Fran Crippen's sister says swimmer expressed safety concerns
Under his handling, many boys became excellent swimming players.
E. M. is going swimmingly. The Sun
That's a new experience for 25-year apparel industry warrior, president of the $10-million men's loungewear, swimwear, and woven and knit shirt manufacturer.
They were able to swim down and then out of the hull to join eight other tourists and the yacht's master on the deck linking the hulls of the upturned craft.
The company has spent the past 18 months sourcing new products and working with special swimwear designers so that it can offer an extensive range. Times, Sunday Times
He managed to swim ashore but could find no trace of his family. Times, Sunday Times
Regional and temporal variation in bending moments and power production have also been predicted to occur during steady undulatory swimming in fish.
Walking hand in hand, we passed several other people on roller skates, in bikinis and swimming trunks, with shopping bags in their hands and all.
However, a very key interneuron in Melibe resides in the pedal ganglion, as is the case in both of the parapodial flappers, Aplysia and Clione, but neither of the dorsal-ventral swimmers.
Among the Olympic gold medallists taking part are Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe and English triple jumper Jonathan Edwards.
It was largely unnoticed until shed and swimming pool owners began to receive hefty bills. Times, Sunday Times
Did the swimmer from the island trade places with him somehow? FIDDLER’S GREEN • by Nick Logan
This opossum, which is black and white, swims in the streams like a muskrat or otter, catching fish and living in burrows which open under water. IV. The Headwaters of the Paraguay

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