How To Use Swimmingly In A Sentence

  • Boasting about how swimmingly this was going, and how much upstream clout he has, is entirely natural.
  • The trip is going swimmingly well so far, I must say.
  • So whether you're scampering up side canyons looking for hidden waterfalls, wading coastal waters in search of quahogs, or portaging an unrunnable section of river, the water shoes below will perform swimmingly.
  • Everything was going swimmingly - and then people started dying.
  • They honored some mischievous actions taken while the doer was mind-swimmingly crocked.
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  • The pall has lifted, but all has not gone swimmingly with Rumania ever since.
  • It all went swimmingly until last week, when a nurse spotted Noelle with drugs about her person.
  • All was going swimmingly well - and then the record company dropped them after spending a small fortune making demos.
  • I pick up the van, drive back to work and the rest of the day goes swimmingly, meaning ... goes fine. Unclebob Diary Entry
  • Everything was going swimmingly for the challenger until scandal erupted.
  • Now they're getting along swimmingly, if you will.
  • It does not always go swimmingly. Times, Sunday Times
  • No one is going to pretend it is going swimmingly. Times, Sunday Times
  • You always know that when things look as though they are going swimmingly something untoward will happen. Times, Sunday Times
  • despite of some mishaps, everything went swimmingly
  • It's assumed that all required paperwork was processed swimmingly.
  • We're sure it will all work out swimmingly. The Sun
  • Things hadn't been going swimmingly at home, either. The Sun
  • Pencil and squared paper are poor means of conveying information at any time, and when the Adjutant had been assured that the business was really "wholesale hardware," and not "wholesale hardbake," as he had first read it, everything went swimmingly. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919
  • So it's all going swimmingly? Times, Sunday Times
  • That said, work is moving along swimmingly, and, for the most part, I had a fine weekend.
  • And apart from that, I said, it went swimmingly.
  • Things were going swimmingly, I thought, until I collapsed from sheer mental and physical exhaustion.
  • All went swimmingly until I decided to alter my templates.
  • I met with him this morning and at length we discussed that things have not been going swimmingly.
  • The relationship went swimmingly for seven months.
  • It was at the very moment that his fury was peaking that there loomed swimmingly in his headlights, hardly visible through the blatter, a figure by the roadside. So long, and thanks for all the fish
  • On Friday I finally got my network changed on my mobile. Apparently, it ‘normally goes swimmingly.’
  • E. M. is going swimmingly. The Sun
  • I have no social plans for this weekend, I'm eating more simply, I got lots of sleep last night and so that just leaves minding my manners and everything should go swimmingly.
  • President Elect Obama tells us after over five years and thousands of mistakes and lies, the occupation of Iraq is going so "swimmingly" (the "surge" worked myth) that we can afford to send troops from there to the new righteous war, Afghanistan. Warfare Reform
  • All told, this was a lachrymose week, though perversely if the greatest music provokes a lump in your throat you know it's all going swimmingly. Antonio Meneses and Maria João Pires; La traviata – review
  • Things are already so rancorous between the Tories and the Lib Dems -- despite public protestations that talks are going "swimmingly" -- that it would be little surprise if we had a second general election within months. The Forever Prime Minister
  • 2007: No new love, but the same old love is going swimmingly, which is just as good. Year End Meme (What if No One's Watching?)
  • No new love, but the same old love is going swimmingly, which is just as good. Year end meme (What if No One's Watching?)
  • I guess as long as it's raining outside Frank's window everything is just "swimmingly" wonderful. It's always better in Princess Rainbow Sparkle Pony Land.
  • She had just performed a cooking demo, and all seemed to be going swimmingly. Times, Sunday Times
  • All goes swimmingly until he books into a hotel in Tokyo. Times, Sunday Times
  • So whether you're scampering up side canyons looking for hidden waterfalls, wading coastal waters in search of quahogs, or portaging an unrunnable section of river, the five water shoes below will perform swimmingly.
  • His school prom had gone swimmingly. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • September, October, November and the first half of December all went swimmingly well.
  • If things go swimmingly, which is always my hope, then that cost would be lessened by a large amount," he remarked. Fort Frances Times Online -
  • This time, however, the journey goes swimmingly.
  • It's all going swimmingly well, until a strange old hermit blunders in to their lives and infects one of them with a hideous bug that literally eats you alive.
  • All went swimmingly at first, and I had that warm, faintly proprietorial glow that goes with introducing friends to somewhere that you feel has been your own brilliant discovery.
  • He'll no doubt get along swimmingly with his new boss.
  • All went swimmingly until her co-star broke his knee playing volleyball.
  • Warren promised to be there, assuring them that everything would go swimmingly and end up top-hole and ticketyboo. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
  • The conversation had not been going swimmingly, and I'll take part of the blame for the chilly turn.
  • UK government bonds were again in demand after an auction of long-dated gilts went swimmingly. Times, Sunday Times
  • I had thought it was all going swimmingly. Times, Sunday Times
  • The whole plan went swimmingly for the entire school year.

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