How To Use Swing In A Sentence

Both throw a lot of strikes and both make hitters swing the bat early in the count.
The principals of the local schools could be counted on for a couple of fresh scrubbed altar boys in charge of polished crucifix, candlesticks and dangerously toxic swinging thuribles.
Therefore, at the state that the body is fixed with a plate shape, the cover-used outer swinging cover can be stored in the box-shaped article storage box with a same side.
A swingle-tree hung at the pole's end, and a second pair of reins was fast to the driver's seat, the four cheek-buckles lying crossed over the wheeler's backs. Ambrotox and Limping Dick
His golf swing is poetry in motion .

Shortly after the demolition of the tower, the reef, as if enraged at having been denied a number of victims owing to the existence of the warning light, trapt the "Winchelsea" as she was swinging up Channel, and smashed her to atoms, with enormous loss of life. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2
What was supposedly impossible, rapid large swings in currency values, became an almost everyday event.
'' Then I got about 30 swings with the regular bat and it felt pretty much the same as swinging the fungo, which is obviously a good sign. '', who had surgery to repair a tendon in his right middle finger Aug. 14, visited his doctor in Arizona on Thursday and remains on schedule to return by late September. Tsn.ca Top Stories RSS
She struggled with the handle before swinging the door open, diving in and slamming it shut again.
A launch angle of about 12 degrees and a spin rate of 2,000 revolutions per minute is ideal for an above-average swing speed.
I understand that there is a huge upswing in the sales of hair colourants, especially for the younger girls and boys.
Trent ducked under another swing attack, swept with his feet in a scissors kick that tripped up his opponent and forced him to the ground.
It seems to show the wing of an angel swinging a censer, and the head of another angel with its halo.
Agarkar, it might be observed, is a much better bowler with the old ball when he can generate reverse swing.
Tom swayed on his backswing because his hands drifted too far away from his body, pulling his torso with them.
The music swings and the professionals perform elaborately energetic movements.
That reduces the risk of big swings in relative prices and wages. Times, Sunday Times
To swell into the hammer-swinging hardhat who loomed in the parlor sipping vodka and orange juice, hurling brickbat words and scraps of heart shrapnel at my mother, sister and me. 1997: What I Wanted
It features a twin-spar aluminium frame and a tubular swingarm made out of steel and aluminium.
Swing the near leg forward and backward. Times, Sunday Times
I have now found an email from another swingers' website on his iPad. The Sun
With that retort, Will shoved Mark into a table, but Mark countered, ducking from a roundhouse swing and taking Will's legs out from underneath him.
It has a steel-coated mainframe and ceramic swingarm plus a host of exotic features. The Sun
This is a magical world of railway tracks that lead nowhere and rope swings that are played like a harp by the wind. Times, Sunday Times
I need to make at least a 90-degree shoulder turn on the backswing.
I sat in the buggy, holding the reins over the trembling, wild-eyed bay, while William descended and, with great dignity, tied up the disabled swingletree. A Circuit Rider's Wife
Start the jug swinging and try to insert spoonfuls of soggy cereal into the mouth of the jug while pretending to be a plane.
he swings breezily into the title song
It is the same as swinging an axe to chop down a tree.
There are many myths and fallacies about swing. Times, Sunday Times
A cat less agile than the rest of his species had been known to entangle himself in the little swing window, and to hang there all the night, sending forth unearthly caterwaulings, to the unspeakable terror of Miss Wendover's guest, unfamiliar with the mechanism of the room, and wondering what breed of Hampshire demon or afrit was thus making night hideous. The Golden Calf
Nelson received $45 million in bribe money for his State to swing his vote doesn't anyone else find this criminal and IMPEACHABLE? Huckabee compares Nelson to Judas
We follow each class through ten weeks of practice, with 10- and 11-year-olds learning to dance in styles such as swing, rumba, meringue and tango.
Such away swingers have beaten the best batsmen from both teams.
Bernice lay contentedly at the edge of a sand embankment white as driven snow, her chin cupped in her hands, watching half a dozen or more mullets drift and swing in the limpid clear water below. The Mystery at Number Six
As the car swings onto the East Coast Road, on the way back to Chennai, we find a man-lion dancing on the sandy strip between kiosks advertising Kodak film and ‘Frooti’, and the metalled speedway.
So to lead off the first inning, Jeter knocked a dribbler into the grass by the third base line, and beat out what was effectively a swinging bunt for his 2,995th hit, and his first since June 13. Jeter Gets It Going as Sabathia Wins His 12th Game
A 2-year-old Phil, a natural right-hander, insisted on swinging a golf club left-handed so that he could mirror his dad.
I take in the dock-green porch swing , the birch-leg table , the twin BED where my sister sleeps , the smoky glass of the kerosene lantern.
Third, the upswing in the global economy is being led by Asia. Times, Sunday Times
I was working the swing shift when Albert White said he knew a guy that was going to start a newspaper business.
Once in awhile he'll tell me to calm down, tell me, 'Don't overswing.' USATODAY.com - Gifted pair revealing more for us
I yelled, but he was gone, the doors swinging shut behind him.
There is additional shower and thundershower activity to our north that may swing this direction heading into tonight. Quieter night ahead, still more rain for some
Michael was struggling to deflect a rain of blows, and the swing of his arm was getting slower and slower.
I’ll tell you what, you thin man in a censer, I will have you as soundly swinged for this, — you blue-bottle rogue, you filthy famished correctioner, if you be not swinged, I’ll forswear half-kirtles. The second part of King Henry the Fourth
Swing doors give access to a utility room plumbed for a dishwasher, washing machine and tumble dryer.
The swing system, controlled by joypad thumbstick, works better than before, and many online features have been improved. Times, Sunday Times
The story was nicely timed in public relations terms to swing media coverage away from his risible performance at the tribunal last week, when he was unable to recall matters of facts on a large number of occasions.
The swinging door is pivoted on one side; the revolving door is pivoted in the centre.
But enough of this - even though I'm sitting here with a jury-rigged computer I'm about to get back into the swing of things.
The decision made, he turned and swaggered out of the door, idle hands swinging and dangling as he strode manfully toward the stairwell.
I could never get a decent swing with my left hand, but at best I would use it only to repel boarders.
Ian found himself reluctantly letting his lids fall shut, and he heard the door swing inwards.
The next number, ‘Coffee's Cold,’ relies on a bouncy ragtime groove with just a bit of swing.
For a start, this music is uninhibited, drawing plentifully from the lightweight and somewhat swingy end of the spectrum.
There is a playground with swings, slides, sandbox etc.
The face of human progress wears bright ribbons in its hair and swings a bag of books. Times, Sunday Times
Albert steps forward and swings the book in a roundhouse.
Sometimes, the slightest leaning of a doorjamb can cause a door to swing open or shut on its own.
Q: Your album is doing incredibly well now, and your career is on the upswing.
Keep the head of the club the same height throughout the swing.
Each stretch should be held for at least 10 seconds with 10 repetitions on each arm for arm swings.
Seeing the potential of its software besmirching the Symantec name irreparably, Symantec's CEO surged forward with a new plan: re-write its security software to make it the best in the industry, so as to super-strengthen its stranglehold on the summit of sales supremacy while swiftly swinging its way back into the good books of consumers. ITWire - Latest Headlines
Nations. yep, it's pretty quaint stuff, couched in terms of newness and normalcy, of foreigness and familiarity. it describes the music as modern and "swingy" and yet timeless, as being of universal appeal - they belong to everyone - and yet "from a single nationality." i wonder whether the universalist rhetoric was meant to appeal to non-jews or simply to jews ambivalent about their jewishness? or am i simply being naive about midcentury, metropolitan jewishness? it is interesting to me also that, apparently, zionist discourse had not yet divorced the term palestinian from any association with jewish heritage. Wayneandwax.com
There was no drive, no swing, no sway. The Sun
Frida walks in from the waiting room, the swinging gate whapping against the wall with her determined stride. Healer
Swing-around requires little coordination, other than that players observe the tenet of never dribbling more than three times before they pick up and pass.
I should send home for more money… I swing my legs over the side of my bed and plant my feet on the soft cushiony floor.
After I ran out of breath, I sat down on the swing, and swung slowly as Alex sat on the sand and made sandcastles.
I recall focus groups in the last couple of weeks before election 2000, after the debates, when these swing voters were being fêted like visiting potentates by the networks.
After a few moments, Meagan saw the ball slowly rolling away near the swings.
Behind it, when he was in session, George would swing to and fro in his green leather swivel armchair smoking a cigar.
She let the door swing shut behind her.
The swing style of the jacket is perfect for hiding any lumps and bumps you might have. The Sun
Whether this sliver of defectors will once again be big enough to swing a presidential election is less clear.
Through his open window came the faint, distant beating of the sea; a bird flew past him, a white flash of light; some one was singing the refrain of a Cornish "chanty" -- the swing of the tune came up to him from the garden, and some of the words beat like little bells upon his brain, calling up endless memories of his boyhood. The Wooden Horse
A dozen sixth-years poured out from the far end, their lanterns swinging haphazardly from their jarring gait.
Bikini-clad dancers writhe onstage at a swinger's club in their best '80s music-video impersonation.
The celebrity hysteria about the show was in full swing. Times, Sunday Times
Until the climax of the sexual erethism, woman is for man the acme of supreme desire; but with detumescence the emotions tend to swing to the opposite pole, and excitement and longing are forgotten in the mood of repugnance and exhaustion. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family
Recently, we've smoothed out some minor kinks she had in her takeaway and the top of the backswing.
This talented five-piece pours a sweet and sultry mix of original torch melodies with a twist of crisp and snappy swing sounds.
There was swing and jive in the dance halls, mambo in the bars, boogie-woogie piano playing in the dockside cathouses. DESPERADOES
'Swingle' citrumelo, 'Cleopatra' mandarin and Poncirus trifoliata (trifoliate orange). 12: Seeds and germplasm
From that album she sang "The Mad Hatter," an uptempo swinger from the short-lived Broadway musical "Wonderland: Alice's New Musical Adventure"; "No Finer Man," a worshipful ballad from "Cyrano de Bergerac: the Musical," which had a brief run two years ago in Tokyo; and the album's title song with lyrics by Maury Yeston. NYT > Home Page
Swinging from the rope portiere, slathering the pomade upon my beardless face, and all manner of the metaphysical ick in my oversized cuspidors! Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0
Leg theory, bowling to a legside field, had been around since the turn of that century and was perfected in particular by the Derbyshire inswing bowler Fred Root. How Bob Wyatt's revelations blow a raspberry at history of bodyline
Travelling south from Preston, it begins to swing to the south-east at Adlington and then skirts Blackrod.
Kirtley was the most dangerous, swinging the ball considerably, and forcing the batsmen to play.
Let the natural and relaxed arm swing of walking or running become part of your skiing.
He tried again with a harder swing and chipped off a small piece!
Interestingly, he swings right-handed, but putts left-handed. Joe Peyronnin: The Golf Summit
The surface had a green hue but its appearance proved deceptive, while swing was modest. Times, Sunday Times
The shift in position of the disaffected crew comes as opinion in the resort town seemed to be swinging behind the former coxswain.
And there's the moment in solemn liturgies when all the candles are lit: those in the chandeliers and in the central corona; and then the first are made to swing widely, while the great corona is spun on its axis. Pentecost in the East
The best players build swings that produce playable misses—the fewer the misses, and the better the misses are, the more consistent a player becomes.
This was followed by a Mars swingby on 25 February, 2007 BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
The setting was a swing dance party at a friend's home. Christianity Today
The first hazel catkins are beginning to turn yellow and swing loose on the twigs. Times, Sunday Times
He added original swing music and sound effects and - ta-da! Houston Chronicle
Savage charged the creature, swinging his knife at the prothorax. MINUTES TO BURN
Aiken, ranked 97th and known as much for his shoulder-length hair as for his swing, has 67s in the first two rounds. Tiger Moving Up The Leaderboard At Dubai
He'd been late getting back to the inn, having made a wide swing along the coast after leaving Miss Rondel and stopped to birdwatch. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
The pilot himself can help anticipate the swing into wind by applying full out-of-wind rudder before he starts to roll.
Here it is demonstrated for hitting an overhead shot (the most-played shot in badminton, unlike tennis or squash which are primarily underarm swings).
When not on the beach, Rian enjoyed the children's playground, which offered a slide, swings, see-saw and fortress.
Your first priority is to identify exactly what it is you are trying to achieve with your golf swing.
Easily the strongest, the proud Dwarf swings a large battleaxe that he uses to cleave opponents in two, and pulls out hatchets to dispatch enemies at a distance.
A human couple relaxed on a porch swing on the veranda and Max thought the place looked peaceful.
It is only an approximation of the swing eighth notes.
She dragged out the swing and hung it on chains that dangled from the ceiling of the porch. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
On the lower tier to the left of the tach is a needle that swings up and down between blue at the top and green at the bottom to let the driver know when the battery is expending power or getting a regenerative charge. Mississauga News
The pipe was just high enough so that I could swing with my arms outstretched and not drag my bottom.
The next five years will involve an intense upswing - perhaps more intense than anything we've seen in our lifetimes.
Until the 1920s, the most accurate timepieces depended on the regular swing of a pendulum.
Pat Jerrom says Danniella had violent mood swings and threatened to commit suicide.
You must allow the clubhead to swing freely.
The four of them tooled out to a big powerboat that was swinging to an anchor at the mouth of the harbor. CORMORANT
Last season, he focused too much on trying to hit home runs by pulling the ball, and his swing got messed up in the process.
He turned his gaze back to Sarah and her friends who were quietly indulging themselves in a game of whist whilst the party was in full swing around them.
They could, perhaps, take comfort from the poster on the hotel's swing doors announcing the following Saturday's cabaret.
As the airplane turns, the force that results from the magnetic dip causes the float assembly to swing in the same direction that the float turns.
It's certainly not easy for a jazz pianist famous for swing to turn over to bebop.
The state-specific random swing factor determines which states have their electoral college votes allocated according to biased coin flips after the national random swing factor is applied. Wolfram Blog : Analyzing U.S. 2008 Elections with Mathematica
Flax was raised, and after grandfather had broken, swingled and hatchelled it, grandmother spun it into thread, which sold for $1.50 per pound.
I call it an open marriage, or just refer to ourselves as swingers.
This was when the women's liberation movement was in full swing, and the brassiere was regarded as an offending piece of ‘body machinery’, designed by men and foisted on women.
The beat lilts rather than swings, and there's a sweetness about the melodies that can become cloying if you listen too much.
It is formed by eight lined-up wheels, linked by swingletrees, and a free wheel in the middle of the others, lined-up with them.
As the bird lands and decelerates the weight of the pectoralis and sternocoricoideus muscles causes the sternum to swing ventrally, increasing the volume of the thorax.
They upped the ante, too, with Cold Play's "Viva La Vida," done with plucky violin daring, of course, "Rasputin," and a very drummy swing standard that brought the house down. Times Record News Stories
“Yetta, Yetta, Yetta,” Rahel said in a singsongy voice, playfully swinging around a lamppost. Uprising
The swings were made out of the hardest substances known to man, and could decapitate anyone foolhardy enough to walk past.
Most of the time, he wisely kept a light touch with turquoise beading, trimming fresh white tweed coats and dresses with the stuff - and even won with a swingy beaded skirt worn with a delicate cashmere tank.
the best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with,never say a word,and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.
He took a more than respectable 3 for 89 with his swinging fasties and made 41 with the bat.
With a tie in the Senate, filibusters can go on indefinitely, and the vice president will become the swing vote on key bills.
Using one of the grips described above, deliver the jack swinging your arm down in line with the middle of the mat and the centre line.
Nobody could have anticipated how drastically things would swing Bolton's way with a dream of a goal just 16 seconds into the second half.
The Morgan typically shuttles this material some 75 to 100 metres to the chipper, swinging the drags so the logs are aligned straight into the chipper infeed.
When I latched on to this hold and let my feet swing out from the face below, I felt an alarming sense of fatigue in my arms.
In drier, less swingy environments, he makes use of angles. Times, Sunday Times
Another who will travel to India, Shahzad, known for his skiddy pace and reverse swing, already has more than a few tricks. Cricket World Cup: Matt Prior ousts Steven Davies from England squad
Players use their own clubs to whack at the golf ball, which swings around and lands in the net.
That wretched child I'll swing for him one of these days!
Why don't we swing by the roadhouse instead?
Now, it's not like Johnny had some former great glory with The Swing Orchestra, but at least they had a shtick, something to work with.
When I mentioned his chinstrap swinging, he grew irritated, abruptly grabbed his strap, and snapped it.
The West Indies were constrained early in their chase by some healthy swing bowling aided by the overcast conditions.
And in the early part of his career before his back trouble, Botham was a genuine strike bowler who could swing the ball both ways.
With no firm ideology, swinging like a pendulum from one side to another the brief period of halcyon days in my life passed just like the sand slips out off the hands.
What might seem like self-indulgent mood swings could be something much more serious and completely outside his control. The Sun
A gaggle of cowboys walk by en route to the rodeo tent, lariats swinging.
Leverage increases volatility as investors run for cover when they feel threatened and pile in regardless on the upside swing.
Two swinging lanterns lit the interior with a yellow-orange cast that made Rebecca stand out in sharp relief like some golden goddess.
By the time flappers showed up in the '20s, opening and closing their knees and swinging their arms in the briefest of outfits, the can-can and the shimmy looked positively quaint.
What sort of pleasure do you get out of ... mommacrazy30 said: Ellotsinnocent "thats the dumbest thing i have ever seen or heard and Ive seen alot on these pages i sooo agree. whisperswing said: Wow she must be the" debil "mamma, dont cha just hate those people that associate babies with money winfalls? The Dreamin' Demon
In this way, of course, money only mirrors other aspects of our political moment, where the prevailing mood generally seems to swing from one kind of antiestablishment ethos to another. NYT > Home Page
The long, thin string and the heavy bob will enable the pendulum to swing unencumbered for hours and hours and hours.
The music I heard in my house was my parents' music, which was swing music, jazz, very mainstream jazz nothing esoteric - the usual people like Ella Fitzgerald, [and] Judy Garland.
The second band upstairs was the rockabilly/swing band the Straight 8s, who were fun ok, I watched _Sha Na Na_ as a child, sue me. Gearchat, sportsfood, bad traffic and good music: a Saturday
Lead experienced the biggest swing, hitting a ten-year high of ￡800 a tonne in March.
The curtains were swinging from side to side in the breeze.
TCM has two of the best: Double Indemnity (tonight, 8 ET/5 PT), a seminal double-cross film noir starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray (in a far cry from his My Three Sons days); and Swing Time (10 ET/7 PT), which may just be the best of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers films, and is the only one to address hard economic times. Critic's Corner Wednesday
Hydrogen can be effectively and economically recovered from the refinery gas by cryogenics, pressure swing absorption, or semipermeable membranes.
'Gun,' he shouted to Angelique, both of them instantly pointing their weapons at the backs of two drookit figures who were getting to their feet, machine guns swinging from straps around their shoulders. A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
And since I play in more corporate outings and pro-ams these days, I have witnessed the mood swings and struggles the average player can experience in the course of a round.
The araguato at the "tail-end" of the bridge, not knowing what had happened, and thinking all was right for swinging himself across, slipped his tail from the branch just at the very same instant that the wounded one let go, and the whole chain fell "souse" into the water! The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon
I do mean that in the nicest way, as part of what makes him so freaky is his adeptness at swinging, wiggling and falling from the poles he dances on. VIDEO: Silver Man Pole-Dances, Gender-Bends on America's Got Talent
Let your arms swing with you and feel the energy coming from the extra oxygen you are breathing.
The swing of the ship made many people seasick.
Tonight she would wear the swinging strands of rolled gold ending in one large crystal drop.
The history is this: In 1921, some members of the City Club, a private club in the District, wanted a place to swing their mashie niblicks. Old Beaver Dam golf course couldn't hold back development
She's a cutie ," Helen remarked after the swinging door to the kitchen had flapped shut. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
We cross and recross the sheer drop, swinging on ropes and balancing on flimsy-feeling ladders. Times, Sunday Times
But the top act is the eponymous Triplets, sister divas who sing and swing with tireless exhilaration.
There have been swingeing cuts to forces' budgets. The Sun
The other carabinero jumped for me, but stepped into a wide swing that tumbled him into the canal.
There was a small playground covered in sand with a single swing set and a slide.
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
The party's new policies show a swing towards the centre.
He walked slowly down the sunlit courtway on which the back door of the club opened, swinging his stick and meditating. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
‘My Times,’ by contrast, is the work of a journalistic fugitive with nothing to lose, a man pugnaciously determined to go down swinging.
Having observed Venus, swing your binocular lash-up to the east, to the brightest object there and second brightest non-lunar object in the night sky after Venus, Jupiter. Geo-xcentricities; you too can be Galileo with just a pair of binoculars (and gaffer tape) - The Panda's Thumb
By the time it was our turn to field, the conditions were more favourable for bowling, the ball was swinging and Botham took a couple of wonderful catches.
Inaugural activities were in full swing Saturday despite the cold.
And everything after the fact so foreknown, the game itself sometimes already in the past while he still described it; often the afternoon papers were on the streets with the final box score while he described for his listeners the seventh-inning stretch or reported a struggle in the box seats over the recovery of a foul ball -- his foreknowledge hindsight, a coy tool of suspense: DiMaggio swings. Style in Fiction
But when I was 17, 16, my father and I cut wood all day long, and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood, and when I walked in the back door late that afternoon, I was singing ... Johnny Cash: A Ghost Rider, Still Stirring Souls
The mood amongst Tory MPs seems to be swinging away from their leader.
The new ball bowlers cannot, it seems, swing the ball; the slow bowlers can hardly spin it.
I remember him playing the accordion and making me a swing. The Sun
Loi was well on his way down into the depths of a mood swing.
Competitors brought their own ploughs and swingletrees.
Leaving the pub, I venture out into this cathedral and notice the bob and swing of hand-held lanterns on the far side of a dark field punctuated with sarsen monoliths. Archive 2008-06-01
I staggered across the tiles in ungraceful fashion, handbag swinging as I swore.
Keep the head of the club the same height throughout the swing.
But after just a couple of swings, I started nailing the ball with a high draw.
Because of the long iron's comparative lack of loft, any sidespin created with your swing will be accentuated, because the ball doesn't crawl up the face as much as it does on a club with a more lofted face.
Combination products with dong quai, licorice root, burdock root, wild yam and motherwort have also been shown to decrease hot flashes, insomnia and mood swings.

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