How To Use Swooning In A Sentence
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This courageous gentleman and hardy soldier was near swooning from intensity of emotion.
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The band's debut album won overwhelming critical acclaim, with fans swooning at their lysergic mixture of psychedelic textures and motorik rhythms.
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Crazy electro pop with a swooning sax solo.
The Sun
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Ian Storey is a wonderfully swaggering Pinkerton and his powerful baritone proves the perfect counterpoint to Butterfly's swooning.
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He never missed the opportunity to show off the good looks his Italian mother gave him, and girls were always swooning over him.
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It's too late to start swooning because there are real crash-hot businessmen in football.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Sometimes, it made me feel a little sick to see all of those women swooning over my mother.
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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.
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MOST boyband stars rely on their glossy hair to keep their admirers swooning.
The Sun
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If you've never seen their stage show, you can still get an eyeful from this album's black-and-white liner photos, which show the duo swooning or flopped like cast-off goth toys.
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No sentimental swooning with love for Austen.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ancient style has a bosomy singer with swooning conductor directing strings and harp: the modern style has a complete mix of instruments, including percussion and a rifle being fired, with the conductor in a frenzy.
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Doom, forasmuch as it was evidence by my swooning at the Sight of him, that he was not indifferent to me; but whether he was the Object of my
Exilius
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He still had the women swooning, the men in the audience casting envious glances and the youngsters in awe.
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To this day I can feel myself almost swooning with shame as I stood, a very small, round-faced boy in short corduroy knickers, before the two women.
Collected Essays
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No sentimental swooning with love for Austen.
Times, Sunday Times
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Swooning, proggy mellotron sounds, crunchy electronic percussion, fat blobs of analogue synth, gamelan chimes and digital noise compete for centre stage in quickfire exchanges.
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Big man. oh lookie here another swooning spooned here, big john is a man around horse crap, and the republican t loves its crap.
Think Progress » Cantor backtracks on his bluff, says he’ll show up to health care meeting with Obama.
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This swooning, soulful love song chimes with summery feel-good vibes.
The Sun
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To bezoar stone most subscribe, Manardus, and [4328] many others; it takes away sadness, and makes him merry that useth it; I have seen some that have been much diseased with faintness, swooning, and melancholy, that taking the weight of three grains of this stone, in the water of oxtongue, have been cured.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Everyone covets winter daphne for its swooningly sweet pink flowers.
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Footage of barely pubescent girls screeching and swooning at any glimpse of the musicians is both astonishing and frightening in terms of the power four lads from Liverpool were able to wield - apparently effortlessly.
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His voice was so calm, so cool and collected, I almost felt close to swooning.
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Indeed, the group's college-age members rarely fail to build on their obvious indie influences with swooning California melodies and quirky instrumentation.
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His snore was a medley of snuffing and snorting, with an abortive demi-semi aristocratic sort of a sneeze; while to add to the effect of this three-stringed inspiration there was in each aspiration a tremulous and swooning neigh.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
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Often it seemed that little more than the kerchief I tied over my nose separated me from the alcohol-smelling bums with crumbs in their beards who bookended me, swooning to Albinoni.
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There is a kind of deliquium of the spirits, called swooning away, that may befall believers, which suspends all acts of life, when yet the man is not dead.
Several Practical Cases of Conscience Resolved
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He has charisma, a fabulous new line of hipster clothing, a reality-TV show in development, and a posse of hot young actors swooning over his righteous aura.
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a swooning fit
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Since 1976, when Einstein on the Beach, written with the composer Philip Glass, was performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Robert Wilson has acquired a reputation as an all-around showman, a hip, Texan Wagner who produces enormous, expensive 'intermedia' spectacles in Europe and is followed by swooning disciples and donors.
Lovely to Look At
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She played the tambourine, the xylophone, and the harmonica, all to our swooning hearts' delight.
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No sentimental swooning with love for Austen.
Times, Sunday Times
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I never understood the screaming hysteria, swooning, and sobbing that seem conventional behaviour for thronging female audiences at big rock concerts.
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Her first feature, La Ciénaga, or The Swamp, exuded a fetid, toxic atmosphere: a film on the verge of swooning, overcome by its own unwholesomely sensual fumes.
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Two party patrons swooning over the calorific Oreos were Patty Godfrey and Lyn Stewart.
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The foxy temptress and swooning beauty of popular imagination was a violent pragmatist for whom death held no chill.
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Similarly, his image of St. Francis conveys the saint's swooning spirituality with all the appropriate trappings - halo, monastic robe, stigmata and the animals to which he preached.
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They had nutritionists swooning but Oliver soared clear over double-oxers, and Cassidy outsang the birds.
The Elvis Latte
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Aside from a swooning housing market, soaring energy prices, a credit crisis and fresh concerns about jobs, this fall was one of the balmiest on record.
Lookahead: Can It Get Worse?
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It challenges the listener, one minute cutting you blankly dead in your tracks, the next minute swooning you with a roughly cut appeal.
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Andrew Strauss's men also provided the evening with a degree of paparazzi-friendly A-list heft: the shrillest cheers of the evening on the red carpet outside MediaCity were reserved for Alastair Cook, emerging swooningly tuxedoed from his vast limousine.
Mark Cavendish a fitting winner of BBC Sports Personality of Year
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If that wasn't enough, he plays a dishy, sensitive stand-in father in the film, which is guaranteed to have the nation swooning and asking for more.
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Soft and dreamy, a perfect pre-echo of the song's exquisitely swooning melancholy, the guitar lead-in to
The Guardian World News
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Watson's orotund voice is complemented by swooning strings, lush orchestration and gloriously cheery tempi, conjuring the Med, lemon trees and a large dollop of la dolce vita straight into your living room.
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We often read about overwrought ladies reaching for their vinaigrettes, or of stalwart heroes reviving a swooning damsel by waving a vinaigrette beneath her nose.
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The drumming is every bit as good as the guitar and bass. ‘Endlessly’ too, is a welcome change from the bombastic operatics, as Matt brings it all down, swooning over a drifting, two tone synth, backed by a simple, lamenting tin-beat.
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But that doesn't mean that, amid the swooning of his unquestioning admirers, the point should not be kept in mind.
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In fact, I've said as much from the depths of a battered sofa - oohing and aahing, swooning even - over his food, cleanliness, new hairdo, posh voice and green top.
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In the medical terminology of the period, fainting, swooning, and various states that involve the loss of sensation or consciousness are referred to by the technical terms "syncope" and "lipothymy" (or lypothymia).
Ildiko Csengei
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His voice was husky and deep, definitely swooning material.
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These new automatic telephones, which are said to make the business of getting a number so easy, will mean (we suppose) that we will be called up fifty times a day -- instead of (as now) a mere twenty or thirty, while we are swooning and swinking over a sonnet.
Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
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But that has not stopped thousands of people swooning over his chiselled cheekbones.
The Sun
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Cilea's alternately swooning, scintillating and thundering score does much to ennoble the overwrought claptrap of the opera's libretto.
Review: Washington Concert Opera's 'Adriana Lecouvreur' at Lisner Auditorium
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In the North Gallery, art historian Ben Divall joins the eponymous owner of the Jonathan Hope collection in curating this show, exploring "the centuries-long trade and interaction between Indian textile and Javanese batik designs," with some swooningly beautiful hangings luxuriously displayed.
An Explosion of Visual Arts
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This courageous gentleman and hardy soldier was near swooning from intensity of emotion.
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This swooning, soulful love song chimes with summery feel-good vibes.
The Sun
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Ilona Domnich and Betabée Haas relished the wonderfully silly vocal rivalry in The Impresario, the swooning portamenti of one's ‘adagio, adagio!’
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In the North Gallery, art historian Ben Divall joins the eponymous owner of the Jonathan Hope collection in curating this show, exploring "the centuries-long trade and interaction between Indian textile and Javanese batik designs," with some swooningly beautiful hangings luxuriously displayed.
An Explosion of Visual Arts
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This swooning, soulful love song chimes with summery feel-good vibes.
The Sun