[
UK
/swˈuːnɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈswunɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈswunɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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weak and likely to lose consciousness
light-headed from lack of sleep
felt light in the head
suddenly felt faint from the pain
light-headed with wine
a swooning fit
was sick and faint from hunger
How To Use swooning In A Sentence
- This courageous gentleman and hardy soldier was near swooning from intensity of emotion.
- The band's debut album won overwhelming critical acclaim, with fans swooning at their lysergic mixture of psychedelic textures and motorik rhythms.
- Crazy electro pop with a swooning sax solo. The Sun
- Ian Storey is a wonderfully swaggering Pinkerton and his powerful baritone proves the perfect counterpoint to Butterfly's swooning.
- He never missed the opportunity to show off the good looks his Italian mother gave him, and girls were always swooning over him.
- It's too late to start swooning because there are real crash-hot businessmen in football. Times, Sunday Times
- Both serious wine connoisseurs, Graf and Rydman collaborated with the chairs and bistro moderne chef Philippe Schmidt on a symphony of food and wine that had patrons swooning.
- Sometimes, it made me feel a little sick to see all of those women swooning over my mother.
- While you were busy swooning over Lady Gaga and Elton John combining pianic-forces, or maybe you were trying to decode the extreme censorship of Eminem, Lil 'Wayne and Drake's show-closing performance, someone was busy keeping me Grammy-entertained through twitter. Hot Artists at Elbo.ws
- MOST boyband stars rely on their glossy hair to keep their admirers swooning. The Sun