How To Use Swipe In A Sentence

  • I also have a goldenrod-colored scarf (you know, one of those pashmina-y things) that goes nicely with this, and about two weeks ago I was in "the city" (which seems to be what you call San Francisco, if you live near it) wearing this dress, that scarf, and an old denim Levi's jacket I swiped from my Dad in roughly 1987 (with bright pink leather gloves sticking out of the breast pocket) and a tourist actually STOPPED ME ON THE STREET and asked to take my picture. The Return (With Butterflies) - A Dress A Day
  • And in a sideswipe at some of his peers, many of whom he feels are languishing in the comfort zone, he refused to pull his punches.
  • When talking about the performance[sentence dictionary], she couldn't resist a side-swipe at the orchestra.
  • He used this distraction to swipe at the dog's hind quarters.
  • Without warning his right hand swiped in retaliation at her mouth, splitting her lip.
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  • It allows him to present his laddish repartee as a courageous swipe against repression.
  • Most of the 74 opinions are also lengthy and convoluted, larded with unnecessary detail and footnotes, and containing inappropriate swipes at the work of the other justices.
  • Access to the building is by swipe card only.
  • A mighty swipe had knocked the plump grey catnip mouse out of the bag and Ackroyd leaped for it with a hunting cry. WEEKEND FOR MURDER
  • But there were no swipes at either of the two potential Labor leaders.
  • For lip color in pots, remember to swipe the tops with a tissue occasionally to keep them clean.
  • Sew dem he lays onna his sidez an frantickly swipes him legs unner der trin ta getz dem bak out. Boss cat is giving you - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • THINK - SWIPE - hee-hee, hee-haw ... this would be a big first step in my journey around the neighborhood. Velleite - French Word-A-Day
  • This is once again the natterings of those most threatened by the rise of social media, who see their business model being sideswiped by something large and fast-moving, but whose exact shape and dimensions they cannot fathom.
  • Eventually she swiped my credit card and passed me a pen.
  • D-Ill., for what she called a disgraceful sexist swipe. TheBostonChannel.com - News
  • A register might be taken electronically after children had swiped their way into class.
  • Paint the depth map and twist the phone, swipe the screen or run animation to see the photos to move.
  • The cash register only opens once the card has been swiped.
  • You point, swipe, pinch – and the job is done.
  • The self-willed semicoma she fell into at the start of her shift—which lasted through every shopping item she swiped and every receipt she tore out of the till—suddenly left her and she’d felt strangely alive. The Redleys
  • Scotland's leading chef, Andrew Fairlie, has taken a sideswipe at celebrity TV cook culture which, he says, makes him ‘cringe’.
  • Cantus swung frantically, attempting to deflect his opponent's blows, one of his swipes finally scoring underneath Soren's defenses.
  • Dog owners have their pooches swiped on the street, are belaboured about the face and neck, and the whole incident is captured on video phones for the entertainment of witless youths.
  • The good thing about Kenny is that you can take a friendly sideswipe at him, and he doesn't take offence.
  • He looked down at it, more puzzled than pained, then struck her a backhanded swipe that had her stumbling back towards the door. EVERVILLE
  • Surprisingly, the E1027 is just about childproof, if you make sure the spine is firmly against a wall so the cantilever supports your infant's weight as they haul themselves up to swipe off everything carefully arranged on top of it.
  • The great sword swiped about, then again, and a third time, the momentum of each swing bringing raging Robert just a bit closer to his prey. The Woods Out Back
  • Andy Sullivan was driving his GM camper through a stop sign at 21st and Mathers near the top of the hill when the dump truck sideswiped his vehicle.
  • Outside in the wet grass, Max managed to get back to his feet before the jaguar could jump him and he took a roundhouse swipe at the cat.
  • But one of the crooks then swipes all the gold for himself. The Sun
  • The employers' group also took a sideswipe at rising costs emanating from the sheltered sectors of the economy.
  • Despite the increasingly hostile sideswipes at him, the Chancellor is secure in his post.
  • The pharmacy is only a couple of blocks from the house and is a "swiper" thank goodness. ATM's in Ajijic/Lake Chapala
  • So if you take a swipe at Vermont-please do not slight the troops.
  • I'm not trying to kill anyone, so my only auto handgun is a luger that my grandfather swiped from the krauts. .40 S&W vs.
  • He took a swipe at earlier press reports which claimed he would take advantage of the company and sell the properties as soon as he could after the two-year period to pocket profits.
  • She opened the window and swiped at the flies with a rolled-up newspaper to make them go out.
  • Under the “leadership” of the neocon Fred Hiatt, it has morphed into a neocon repiggie asswipe, and I am so disgusted that I deleted it from my file of news sites last year. Think Progress » On House GOP Website, Republican Leadership Takes Credit For Successful Stimulus Project
  • In a direct swipe at his brother, Ed, who used a Guardian article on Monday to lambast Nick Clegg for selling out Liberal principles, the shadow foreign secretary will criticise what he calls a patchwork approach to building electoral support. David Miliband takes 'comfort zone' swipe at Ed in Labour leadership fight
  • With a soapy hand, Inger swiped back the strand of hair straggling across her forehead and put the final pot into the dishpan.
  • The controls are stupefyingly simple; swipe up to jump, left or right or turn, down to slide under stuff.
  • With the invention of the credit card, unmanageable debt is as easy as a magnetic swipe and a signature. Christianity Today
  • He's fast enough to swipe bases on pitchouts, but he needs to learn how to read pitchers to know when to run.
  • In one verse he introduced a sideswipe at the repressive legal system of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (again something he criticized in his earlier historical novel, Barnaby Rudge).
  • Ladies 'Days (term swiped from Ray Romano's teevee mom) for another month. Weeme Diary Entry
  • But beyond another sideswipe at employment rights this autumn, there was little new from the Treasury. Suddenly the state is back in vogue at Number 10. But for how long? | Will Hutton
  • Exhibitors were issued with an identification pass card with bar codes that had to be swiped at the point of entry.
  • The suspect car sideswiped two oncoming vehicles before hitting a third vehicle and coming to a stop.
  • They can break a tyrannosaur's neck with a swipe of their tail. Jurassic Park
  • The film was one of the best-loved screen hits of the 60s, as a gang swipes a stash of gold bullion from a bank vault in Turin.
  • Bank of France governor Christian Noyer launched an attack on ratings companies Thursday that included a sideswipe at the U.K., continuing the war of words that has raged since last week's U.K. veto of a new European treaty. France's Triple-A War of Words
  • Fights were sometimes orchestrated under false pretences, so that inmates could swipe and pilfer a target person's store items.
  • It's one swipe after another, biting the hand that feeds him. The Sun
  • These are some pretty hardcore vitriolic comments mixed with anger and if you notice, they take a sideswipe at us too for printing them.
  • It takes just as long for those keypad swiper thingies to process your card, while you type numbers on the keypad.
  • They use a swipe card to go in and out of their offices.
  • It allows him to present his laddish repartee as a courageous swipe against repression.
  • Every time you went through a door into a classroom or a door in the corridor you had to swipe your card through an electronic card reader, and this was logged into an anonymous grey hard drive in the cellar and stored for posterity.
  • The machine that staff use to swipe your card could be a skimming device. Times, Sunday Times
  • Your sword must strike purposefully, not just clumsy swipes.
  • Goannas use a sideswipe with their heavy tail as their main weapon of defence and have been known to break the leg of a pursuing dog.
  • Two years ago a giant teddy bear was swiped from its window display, just half an hour after being put on show.
  • Indeed she began taking swipes at me when I walked by, demonstrating some of the flash and fire that made her such a distinctive personality.
  • Instead, opt for a swipe of pink blusher across the apples of your cheeks for a natural look. The Sun
  • She swiped me across the face.
  • Elephant trunks are so powerful, they can kill a person with one swipe, Fay said.
  • When you revenge serious on somebody they got to have wronged you direct and not just sideswipe "Jude said. RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE
  • Others with a more monetary bent could base their entire philanthropic nature on this tale of a robbing rodent who swipes from the miserly and scats on the insolvent.
  • I'm still plowing through the boxes of stuff, and came across a book I swiped from my parents' shelf: a ‘Red Primer for Children and Diplomats.’
  • Nor are they simply satirical swipes at the monstrous power of the royal whim. The Times Literary Supplement
  • It was a good speech, but he couldn't resist taking a sideswipe at his opponent.
  • She opened the window and swiped at the flies with a rolled-up newspaper to make them go out.
  • I feel like taking a baseball bat to the lot of them, although even then I'd probably pick an unfashionable brand of bat, or somehow manage to knock their brains out in a cluelessly passe kind of way – using an underarm swing when the overarm swipe's more "now", perhaps – and everyone would sneer at me, including the arresting officer. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: What Not To Wear
  • When she turned round, the bag, which contained nearly £300 cash and a milk token, had been swiped.
  • Dip the fillets into the flour, shaking off excess, swipe through the egg and then press into the crumbs to cover. Times, Sunday Times
  • Shoppers claim their reward cards have been switched as they are swiped through the tills by checkout staff. The Sun
  • This photograph, this swipe of grain, so briefly glimpsed: I could tell it contained extraordinary information.
  • As I slid my room card in the swiper, I tilted over. Times Squared
  • It has only been introduced for shop floor staff, with no-one in management or in the stockrooms having to use a swipe card.
  • So the sensitive data for 25 million individuals swiped from the UK’s National Audit Office won't be factored in. British computer disk heist adds to breach tally
  • If you want your children to grow up unwarped by Hollywood, will it help to write a book keeps taking swipes at their grandmother? 2009 October 13 « One-Minute Book Reviews
  • Frankly, with a vast online knowledge base at your fingertips, it would be a miracle if people didn't swipe a phrase here or pilfer a juicy paragraph there.
  • Nyjer Morgan led off the inning with a bunt single which was actually misplayed by Capuano, who made an ill-advised attempt to swipe at Morgan with his glove, rather than make the safer play and throw to first, but Morgan was wiped out on a double play grounder from Ian Desmond. Live blog: Nationals at Mets, Port St. Lucie, Fla.
  • He swiped at the dog with his stick, but missed.
  • And in perhaps the most pertinent comment of the day, he took a swipe at all those who had lost sight of the bigger picture.
  • The fishy business ended with the now obligatory swipe at the Scottish Nationalists. Times, Sunday Times
  • Only when she reaches her lowest point do we start to get a sense of her past and see genuine reactions to the sideswipes that she appears to brush off happily.
  • He used the interview to take a swipe at his critics.
  • Once the flight crew announces descension, spruce up with a swipe of complexion-lifting lipstick, eye-defining shadow and bronzing highlighter.
  • His aged voice was hoarse and scratchy from the drinking of too much swipes at a funeral the night before, nothing of which contributed to make me less irritable. The Water Baby
  • But 200 of sweets, groceries and bobble hats were swiped in a raid. The Sun
  • Reaching over, he took the top envelope from the small pile, and with a mail opener sitting next to his bag, he opened it with a quick swipe of the dull blade.
  • The doors to the labs had swipe cards, but to help the workers they were left open. Times, Sunday Times
  • Swipe these sleek timepieces at a reader, and the tab is automatically charged to your credit card.
  • ‘Oy, sexist pig’ I pretended to swipe at him with my bag and he grinned.
  • He thought of the truck that had sideswiped him, leading to his decision to turn off the highway to wait until morning to continue his journey.
  • Also, Fillion revealed on Twitter that he swiped the catalyzer from 'Out of Gas' and put it in Castle's living room bookshelf beneath the model boat. Mal Reynolds is Back! - Pink Raygun.com
  • During her lecture on her discoveries, she made/took several sideswipes at the management.
  • KURTZ: But Obama does this a lot, where he takes these swipes at cable television and the pundits, and you can tell that he likes to try to stake out a middle ground and kind of denigrate the press in the process, which is his right. CNN Transcript May 24, 2009
  • That all came to an end in recent months after a confluence of events sideswiped the industry, causing short sellers to swell. Rare-Earth Firms Prove a Common Focus for Shorts
  • The term reverse discrimination seeped into the official lexicon in 1969 when conservatives took the first light swipe at alleged racial favoritism in government contracting programs that mandated hiring goals and timetables for minorities. The Terrible Price of Being Tagged a Reverse Racist
  • She said a council member asked her to make a presentation, and she got "sideswiped" by the controversy. 2theadvocate.com Latest News
  • As Mr. Casey maneuvered the large vehicle through traffic, he said he wouldn't mind having an altercation with another driver: "It would be cool to have a taxi sideswipe us and be at this intersection and have an argument. Storm Chaser and Tank Blow Into Town
  • And on the lame "Bushleaguer," he takes some swipes at the president, then tosses off some spoken-word poetry that recalls Jim Morrison at his drunkest, flabbiest and closest to death: "The immenseness of suffering/And the odd negotiation, a rarity/With onionskin plausibility of life and a keyboard reaffirmation. We've Heard Vedder
  • The top of the thumb is covered with nose friendly fabric so you can swipe away those tickles without rasping your shnoz.
  • And once someone clicks on a text that will just lead the customer directly to your homepage. am i able to "swipe" product images from XXXX site, and just fenagle the html code? Digital Point Forums
  • It surely can't be beyond the wit of 21st century man to devise swipecard systems that allow the identity of those receiving free meals to remain anonymous.
  • I tackled it with a swipe from my duster and then a vigorous rub-down with polish and a dust cloth.
  • The White House ridiculed the agency's decision - with one senior official attacking S&P's "amateurism" - while Obama re-election strategist David Axelrod took a swipe at Republicans for the "Tea Party downgrade. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • He nearly sideswiped a mailbox in his determination.
  • A newly muscled Rory McIlroy was tied for third with Tiger Woods going into Saturday's third round at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, even though he suffered a two-stroke penalty when he swiped sand from his intended line while off the green. Despite Goof, a Bulked-Up Rory Battles Tiger
  • Yesterday I took a mild swipe at the Christians for not fessing up to their omnipotent God being responsible for the earthquake.
  • January 13, 2008 at 2:13 am but ai fink …..biggah, meenah, kitteh neededed fur dat……dis behbeh kitn iz jest too sweetest fur teh paw swipez……. Zombie slayves so hard to steer - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • The machine that staff use to swipe your card could be a skimming device. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fox News and ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC The NYTimes, the WaPo, that asswipe Rev. Moon (another kind of asswipe) prints excrement on, our piss poor corporate media do this all the time. Think Progress » Evacuation Priorities
  • Slowly she raised a thin hand to her face and swiped at the rain that clung to her hair and eyelashes.
  • Today's kids, who naturally "swipe" and "pinch" interactive screens and are more familiar with tablet screens than magazines, take to technology like fish to water.
  • Staff working at the store were duped into clearing up a smashed bottle of vinegar while one of the thieves walked into an open office and swiped wads of cash.
  • Shoppers claim their reward cards have been switched as they are swiped through the tills by checkout staff. The Sun
  • Debate over whether Michaele could make it on her own, which allows Paul to give the sideswipe that it's easy for Lynda to say -- she married and divorced a very rich man, that's where the lucre's from, not her modeling agency. Last one ever?: D.C. 'Housewives' recap and fact-check (#9, Oct. 7)
  • Access to the building is by swipe card only.
  • Pressing the buttons changes the data imprinted on the magnetic stripe, so it still works like conventional plastic and can be swiped through existing card terminals nationwide.
  • It avoids any kind of social comment or satirical swipe at a society obsessed by winners and dismissive of losers. Times, Sunday Times
  • This photograph, this swipe of grain, so briefly glimpsed: I could tell it contained extraordinary information.
  • In fact the top model his style so much she to have swiped his blazer. The Sun
  • Notification Center can also be accessed with a two-fingered swipe, right-to-left, starting from off the trackpad.
  • Tammy Lynn Michaels feels "sideswiped" by her breakup The Velvet Hot Tub | Freshest Stories
  • Selim was sulky and took a swipe at him with his paw, and he whopped it to him full in the mouth just as he opened it to let out a roar. CHAPTER XXVIII
  • Use your finger to swipe gold dust subtly over eyelids, or apply with a brush if you're going for an intense effect. Times, Sunday Times
  • The fish came off the hook but a quick and well targeted swipe of the net boated the fish. (i.e. Steelers came back against almost overwhelming odds to win a 6th Super Bowl.) Lost at the Net
  • Andy collapsed into a heap and continued to swipe at the air.
  • And he took what may have been a swipe at fellow word maven William Safire for putting the phrase "nattering nabobs of negativism" into the vice president's mouth. NBC News Correspondent Was Tart-Tongued Grammar Guru
  • He took a swipe at the Democratic candidates yesterday who want to roll back his cuts, claiming the reductions have fuelled a broad economic recovery in the US.
  • Wolfus struggled to reach for his sword, and slashed off the coils with a single swipe.
  • Return swipes came at him, along with gushes of flame emitted from the monsters' skin.
  • Entry to it was controlled by a swipe card but there was an access panel on the wall to the right. CHAMELEON
  • As ever, Dashboard is always just a three-finger swipe away.
  • I still feel a prompt is like a hotel swipe card which will take me to the ‘other side’. Unlocking Stories « Write Anything
  • His hair flops disobediently into his eyes and he gathers it up from time to time with a swipe. An easy label for Christopher Hitchens? Careful, it could be a fighting word
  • And he took another swipe at Hamilton this week, insisting he was right to accuse him of driving too slowly. The Sun
  • Even for the seasoned swiper, it's all frankly a bit too much. Times, Sunday Times
  • I long to own a sword of my own, with handgrips made of sharkskin and a blade that I have sharpened to a point where it could cut through this cherry blossom tree in two swipes of the blade.
  • Take a swipe at one's opponent
  • I was unable to move between full-screen apps using the sideways four-fingered swipe.
  • She moved to one side to avoid a more volatile slash and returned by stepping dangerously close with a backhanded swipe to the temple.
  • The screen went dark as a monstrous tongue licked the lens, then a hand swiped it several times.
  • Dot concealer on any blemishes, then blend on foundation, followed by a swipe of mascara.
  • A sudden swipe of her short, powerful forepaw stretched an opening in the wire, and her head darted in and her jaws snapped through the back of a sleeping hen so swiftly it barely had a chance to squawk. Hunting the Thylacine
  • Bolton Wanderers striker Paul Wheatcroft has taken a swipe at Manchester United for releasing him as a promising trainee.
  • Storm-swiped vessels with broken masts and tattered sails beached alongside the dock, frail and weather-beaten, but home from the squall.
  • We charged forward with all our might and swiped them away!
  • However, you stray off the reservation by taking a sideswipe at the black-footed ferret, greater sage-grouse, orchids and wild mustangs, not to mention the archeological and paleontological professions. The Main Engineering Problems Used to Be Engineering
  • Boris had swiped a filmstrip and accompanying audiocassette from the yeshiva he worked at in Royal Hills. How We Avenged the Blums
  • I have to assume that in Ulin's reference to "playing games" he is taking a swipe at postmodernism, using the same stale cliche those critics who want to valorize the "engagement" of writers like Mailer and Johnson in contrast to the aesthetic affectations of formalists and metafictionists always seem to use. Saying Something
  • But if they dislike something, they should at least use reasoned analysis rather than wild sideswipes of opinion.
  • We had to decide whether words like "asswipe" or "shitfaced" should be included, or does the program only know the hyphenated versions. Boing Boing
  • He swipes the back of an angry hand across his lips, and says: THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
  • He's also taken a swipe at some union leaders, who he claims call strikes simply to advance their political ambitions.
  • He was now thinking on his feet, his strategy for dealing with what he thought was going to be a straightforward interview had been dealt a sideswipe by this unexpected manoeuvre.
  • Various combinations of taps and swipes mimic the actions of a trackpad or mouse.
  • The officer, a commander by the looks of it, parried his blow before attempting another swipe.
  • The updated SkyDrive will allow users to swipe through their files quickly and easily.
  • Despite the increasingly hostile sideswipes at him, the Chancellor is secure in his post.
  • When a user swipes their phone on a special pad the money will be deducted from their account. The Sun
  • When you swipe one finger from right to left, the Charms menu quickly appears.
  • A meteorite crashed through the ceiling, bounced off the radio console, swiped the side of her left thigh and rolled onto the floor.
  • As Gellis liberally and deftly applies paint in a series of wide, muscular swaths offset by delicate calligraphic swipes, an impending sense of abstraction emerges. Bill Bush: Debating Through the Arts: This Artweek.LA (July 25-31)
  • Then, last week, someone nearly sideswiped me while executing a left turn through an intersection on a busy, two-lane street.
  • After a high-speed chase through the still Ohio dawn, Ford sideswiped a tree and came to a halt at the end of a cul-de-sac.
  • The Navy has even put a swiper by the door of the chapel as a substitute for the Sunday church-service collection plate, says Cmdr.
  • But the recent sideswipe by David Cameron at superinjunctions is pointless. It should be curtains for celebrities with a bedroom secret
  • Security is helped by three undercover compounds, accessed free by a swipe card. Times, Sunday Times
  • Leon made a swipe for the gun, snatching it up quickly.
  • They have swiped hundreds of signs, including chevrons and direction indicators giving motorists advance notice of hazards.
  • As they approached on foot, the van backed toward them, knocking one trooper down, hitting the patrol car, and then getting sideswiped as it entered the traffic lane still in reverse.
  • But there are few if any satirical sideswipes or caustic commentaries on the people living day to day in his fiction.
  • Especially Dave, who had to feed the scrum, swipe the ball from the back of the black spider, and dive-pass it out to the waiting back line.
  • Dip the fillets into the flour, shaking off excess, swipe through the egg and then press into the crumbs to cover. Times, Sunday Times
  • During her lecture on her discoveries, she made/took several sideswipes at the management.
  • I rimmed my olive colored eyes in massive amounts of eyeliner, swept on some mascara and swiped on chapstick.
  • Once free they did what escaped prisoners do: Swiped a pickup truck, cavorted on the outside for a while, then got hauled back into the pokey.
  • Pine held his ribs for the next round of convulsions and dodged Stan's sideswipe. THE MANANA MAN
  • She took a playful swipe at her brother.
  • I long to own a sword of my own, with handgrips made of sharkskin and a blade that I have sharpened to a point where it could cut through this cherry blossom tree in two swipes of the blade.
  • The brothers promptly swiped the exclusive license from the gaping maws of nearly a dozen major competitors.
  • In accepting the award, he paid tribute to the role fans played in turning his movies into a success and took a swipe at critics in the process.
  • Face it asswipe I am all you need be concerned with … Think Progress » City Removes Spanish-Language Census Sign After ‘Angry’ Citizens And Lawmakers Raise A Fuss
  • His essay in the catalogue takes numerous swipes at universalist definitions of art and at the notion of art's autonomy from the larger social world.
  • Sadly, though, I'm a lousy swiper and often have to try it three or four times before it works.
  • A drunk driver failed to see her bright flashing lights, sideswiped her vehicle, and plowed into the back of the truck.
  • When you revenge serious on somebody they got to have wronged you direct and not just sideswipe "Jude said. RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE
  • Travelers then swipe those cards as they pass through security to confirm their identity.
  • Use your finger to swipe gold dust subtly over eyelids, or apply with a brush if you're going for an intense effect. Times, Sunday Times
  • We sat on some bar stools that we swiped from the home furnishings department and watched “We Are Marshal” on the high-def TVs. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - EL fan Halo 3 pics
  • On the legislative front, there has been an increase in the number of bills introduced in Congress targeted specifically on Canadian exports, where previously we were being "sideswiped" by general legislation aimed at other targets. Some Canadian Myths About the U.S.
  • Now, celebrating the 50th anniversary, Jiang took a swipe at "hegemonism" -- his code word for America's post-cold-war dominance. A Goose Step Into The Future
  • Using a small card swiper that plugs into an Android, iPhone or iPad audio socket, the Square app facilitates mobile payments, and it has been valued at $1bn. Jack Dorsey | MediaGuardian 100 2011
  • Everyone guffawed as they swiped the small bowls before them with triangles of pita bread.
  • He swipes a bar-code wand across the waybill, a document that shows the contents and destination of the shipment.

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