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swoop

[ US /ˈswup/ ]
[ UK /swˈuːp/ ]
VERB
  1. seize or catch with a swooping motion
  2. move down on as if in an attack
    The teacher swooped down upon the new students
    The raptor swooped down on its prey
  3. move with a sweep, or in a swooping arc
NOUN
  1. a very rapid raid
  2. a swift descent through the air
  3. (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale
    the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides
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How To Use swoop In A Sentence

  • Young's art simultaneously unfolds, extends, abnegates, and defies authorship and receivership - all in one fell swoop.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • The government swooped in with an arsenal of pesticides: defoliant, weed killer, DDT. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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