[
US
/ˈswup/
]
[ UK /swˈuːp/ ]
[ UK /swˈuːp/ ]
VERB
- seize or catch with a swooping motion
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move down on as if in an attack
The teacher swooped down upon the new students
The raptor swooped down on its prey - move with a sweep, or in a swooping arc
NOUN
- a very rapid raid
- a swift descent through the air
-
(music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale
the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides
How To Use swoop In A Sentence
- Young's art simultaneously unfolds, extends, abnegates, and defies authorship and receivership - all in one fell swoop.
- Recruit rich white republicunts (carpetbaggers) to swoop in and scoop-up "devalued" (seized from still-exiled owners) properties and change the entire complexion (race, income, politics, everyfuckingthing) of the ENTIRE GREATER NEW ORLEANS AREA. Your Right Hand Thief
- Even Larry, barefooted now, and with both hands tightly clenched, such was his wrought-up condition, stood and watched with burning eyes as the aeroplane sank lower and lower in its forward swoop. The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck
- First there are steep stone steps, then a gradual rise, a levelling out, a swoop to the top and a steep drop to the stone steps on the other side.
- I'm sure she's flouting loads of official and unofficial tube etiquette in one fell swoop here.
- The raptor swooped down on its prey
- At the end, I swoop up again and bank left, taking the aircraft in a steep climb over the surrounding hills.
- Such soaring highs and swooping lows are typical Bercow. Times, Sunday Times
- She fans her movements outward toward the sides of the body like a semaphore of swooping and crumpling limbs.
- The opening is not such a problem, it's the vast forbidding swoop of the gaping door itself. Times, Sunday Times
