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
The hawkers, or dragon nymphs are longer and thinner and they patrol up and down looking out for prey on which to swoop.
We've lost three family members in one swoop. The Sun
Ten people were arrested after police swooped on a dozen addresses in south Manchester.
Note that Jacopo adds something not prescribed - an angel swooping down with a palm, symbol of martyrdom.
Riders are suspended in the jaws of a vampire bat, their legs dangling free, as they swoop over the treetops and soar through the sky.
He had by a second will bequeathed all his possessions to the Church, reserving in them a life-interest for his virtual wife; and when the cousinry swooped down on what they thought their prey, Madame Mulhausen could receive them and their condolences with the indignant scorn which their greed and cruelty deserved. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
The opening is not such a problem, it's the vast forbidding swoop of the gaping door itself. Times, Sunday Times
These vary in tightness: some are hairpin turns, while others swoop down the mountain and are faster. Times, Sunday Times
Entitled Aquila after the swooping eagle found in John Flamsteed's 1729 Atlas Coelestis, its merits do not really derive from any imitation of eagles actual or imagined perhaps luckily, given that Flamsteed's eagle resembles a grouse. Chroma chamber ensemble – review
Swifts jinked and swooped in the enclosed space with the grace of dolphins.
First, it removes at one swoop any lingering questions over the company 's financial strength. Times, Sunday Times
Herons and egrets swooped at our bow, and at night we moored alongside sand islands and among reeds and coots.
And I've never been swooped by a rosella in Wiltshire.
Far up the gorge dense clouds of black smoke swooped down from the benchland. Raw Gold A Novel
Round her, and for a mile away, they fought like rams and they fought like dogs and they fought like tigers, and over the roaring siren sounds of the fight the gulls flew like the fume of it, screaming and swooping and circling in spirals, and through everything like the continuous thud-thud of a propeller came the dunch of tons of flesh meeting tons of flesh head on, shoulder on, or side on. The Beach of Dreams
We swooped along a dry river bed to land near the Settlers Arms Inn, in St Albans.
There was no narrative or overt expressiveness in the movement, which consisted mainly of high-energy skips and swoops.
Soon an amazing variety of birds will swoop down for a piece of your cake. Times, Sunday Times
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
The terror ended when armed police swooped on the car.
Who else had a voice that could express the rage of a baboon, a leopard and a hippopotamus in one rise and fell swoop? GALILEE
The "swoops, the spirals, the digressions and the reiterations" so characteristic of oral narrative are all there in the novel.
You could even "cuff-block" (take someone else's handcuff, which is awesome because it pisses them off and gives you trade bait in one fell swoop). Undefined
I rationalized it to be a surgeon's light - glaring at me and allowing dozens of general practitioners swoop in like birds of prey.
They swooped down on a night club and made 5 arrests.
Circling seagulls swooped down and ate what Agnes had disgorged.
The terror ended when armed police swooped on the car.
Rather than reconfiguring the Court in one fell swoop, they must proceed member by member, as justices die or leave voluntarily.
Plumes of spindrift were scouring the top, leaving nothing but a swooping white cleaver of ice.
Bryan Robson is trying to make a deadline-day swoop for Manchester United starlet Chris Eagles.
He sprang up and swooped on her , on this object that he would violate.
A blackbird swooping down to steal a walnut from an alimentation générale. Nicole Garton: Ingénue Interview: Rosa Rankin-Gee
The montage was to get this treatment, too, and so the editors were working to freeze-frame it just as the hat swooped into the air.
Undercover council officers are to swoop on local shops in a bid to keep a killer jelly sweet out of Bolton.
The latest is a 76-story structure in lower Manhattan, the largest swoopy apartment building in the world. An Architect's Blueprint for Overexposure
A Bald Eagle called Alaska swooped in on a flying visit and certainly attracted plenty of attention among the surprised shoppers on O'Connell Street.
A hawk swooped low over the field.
Julia Child was a larger than life figure: tall, gangling, rollickingly posh with an extraordinary voice that swooped and swelled and swarmed over its plummy vowels. A Passion for Life « Tales from the Reading Room
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He has speed, pace and a deadly finishing swoop. Times, Sunday Times
Rich -- a combination of Jimi Hendrix and Keith Richards -- jerks and shreds the guitar so hard you can almost see the electricity running through his body, while Dan knocks over drums, aerobically pounds on symbols, and behind his swooping bangs you can see his closed eyes and meditative expression. Mihal Freinquel: When Style Meets Music: Aja Volkman of Nico Vega
He started shaping the future of car design by sculpting models from clay instead of wood, which allowed for dramatic curves and swooping rooflines.
The birds would swoop into the cold water then reach their heads back up to the fishermen.
When we park the shopping cart and dump our bag, they swoop down to investigate.
An owl swoops from the ridge top, noiseless but as flame.
The bureau swooped down on three illicit Hong Kong factories on Sept. 3 alone.
Only a foolish politician would promise to lower the rate of inflation and reduce unemployment at one fell swoop.
Swoop on the remaining bottles of this brilliant discounted sweet damson plum-packed red, 50 per cent garnacha to 50 per cent tempranillo.
Three men from different corners of the car park swoop in and join them. Times, Sunday Times
I would compare it, not to the butterfly's flitting, but to the eagle's swoop and soar in flight.
Instead, it's all swoopy curves, primary colours, plastic, leather and copper, a moulded-zinc reception desk and rubberised industrial flooring. Times, Sunday Times
The 49ers were reportedly prepared to swoop up Ole Miss tackle Michael Oher with the No. 10 overall pick, giving them a long-term bookend for 2008 first-rounder Joe Staley. SFGate: Top News Stories
A single company can close a factory, eliminating 74,000 jobs in one fell swoop.
The birds that lived in the two trees suddenly screamed out, beat their wings and swooped down, crying their anguish.
Detectives said the blue or green Rover 600 was probably left in the town following the swoop on a guard delivering cash to the HSBC in Morrisons, on Tuesday afternoon.
These are the men and women who remain on the job long after the special forces have made their largely useless swoops and patrols, and who remain on the firing line when the criminals return from their lairs.
At first he was like to sulk in the style of a hawk who has failed of his swoop; but seeing his enemy arising slowly with grunts, and action nodose and angular -- rather than flexibly graceful -- contempt became the uppermost feature of his mind. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale
Until then, however, the gameplay depends on twiddling two flippers and watching as your tiny silver ball swoops around the environments.
Police - using a drug-detecting sniffer dog - swooped on suspect passengers boarding and alighting from trains.
You've probably noticed that Schenectady and Tallahassee don't have one of these swoopy buildings. An Architect's Blueprint for Overexposure
The drugs were seized following a swoop on a house in Cahernorry, Ballysimon on Tuesday night.
I want an angel to swoop down like he does to Jimmy Stewart...
About 12 others who were rounded up as part of the original swoop remain unaccounted for. Times, Sunday Times
Moor circled round his opponent, as a hawk circles when about to make a swoop; his steed obeyed his rider with matchless quickness; at every attack of the infidel, it seemed as if the Christian knight must sink beneath his flashing scimiter. Washington Irving
the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides
It is the last thing chief execs want to hear as Chinese clubs look to swoop for our big stars. The Sun
Tobias jumped backwards only when the bird swooped in his direction.
Water trickled from the pools around the artists 'residence, carp splashed and occasionally a kingfisher swooped above the pool. A message from Lian Hearn the writing of Across the Nightingale Floor
In one fell swoop, the authors have denied the deeply traumatizing consequences of extreme verbal and emotional abuse.
Police swooped after internal auditors at the company raised concerns. The Sun
Officers investigating the attack swooped on a house in Farnworth on Wednesday afternoon.
We passed our damning evidence to the police, who swooped on the companies' premises and arrested the masterminds behind the bogus operation.
The small bird swooped down and landed by the girls hand.
Only a foolish politician would promise to lower the rate of inflation and reduce unemployment at one fell swoop.
The highlight of the garden party was that an angry swarm of bees, whose beehive had been disturbed by accident, swooped down on the assembled guests.
Two others arrested in the swoop lost deportation appeals. The Sun
Two shots from within the future auditorium seem to tunnel through scores of crisscrossing scaffolds toward the stage as light filters down through swooping ceiling tarps.
They will ring out this call in vigorous swooping defence of a treasured tree full of berries. Times, Sunday Times
They joyously flitted from branch to branch, swooping down occasionally from the skies like wind-blown flowers falling off the trees.
Something swooped at her, some winged and flabby thing whirling out of the aphotic pits of this non-being; she felt it cut her arm, felt blood hot on the cold flesh. The Silicon Mage
Just then, from the sky, a huge bird-like creature swoops down.
A single company can close a factory, eliminating 74,000 jobs in one fell swoop.
Then the hired barn owl swooped on to his arm carrying the rings in a bag in its claws. The Sun
But the risk of another club swooping in and offering a better deal is always present. Times, Sunday Times
MARTIN GONZALEZ, CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE: What we call what we call the swoop and squat. CNN Transcript Jun 14, 2006
El conde hovered over his kingdom like an eagle, sharp-eyed and cold, ready to swoop at any moment.
In my little corner of the world, the month of March usually swoops in like the proverbial lion then gently leaves like a woolly lamb.
The miles upon miles of open gray-green country, treeless, hedgeless, houseless, swoop toward one another with the strangest sinuosities and rifts and knobs of volcanic earth, till at last they sink in faint mists, only to rise again in pink and blue distances, so far off, so pale and aërial, that they can scarcely be distinguished from the atmosphere itself. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876
The plan was to swoop down low and scoop up the agent on a hook. Times, Sunday Times
I would love to lie flat on some grass while gigantic birds of prey flap and swoop over me, to feel the beat of the wind from their powerful wings.
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.
But the inertron shell of my swooper was impervious to the disintegrator ray. The Airlords of Han
In his first draft of the play, Barrie had no Hook at all: Peter himself was the villain, a "demon boy" swooping in the sashed windows.
We Wyomings possessed one swooper completely sheathed with inertron and counterweighted with ultron. The Airlords of Han
Most infuriating to the onlooker was the fact that Minto Mrs. Moore never gave the faintest hint of gratitude: indeed she regarded herself as J's benefactor: presumably on the grounds that she had rescued him from the twin evils of bachelordom and matrimony at one fell swoop! On Mrs. Moore
We swooped like some bird of prey over the advancing army. Anti-Ice
All the while the distinctive bird, which has a bright red tail, faced the wrath of swooping magpies.
The thunderbird swooped low; even the bears in the nearby forest quaked at the sound, and the leaves on the aspens began to quiver, and they have not stopped to this day.
The teacher swooped down upon the new students
Their screaming contorting aerobatics as they swoop on clouds of insects keeps me greatly amused.
She shut them for a moment and immediately felt the world drop out from under her in a sickening swoop of her stomach.
In one fell swoop, Web analytics can help you figure out all the important information about people who visit your site.
To feed, it would swoop down to grab squid and eels that swim near the surface or smaller seabirds. Times, Sunday Times
she swooped gracefully
While the characters and other objects float and collide, our vantage point swoops around them. Times, Sunday Times
None of them paid any outward attention to their "sheets," although Alfred and Gracie spread theirs with elaborate care; they leaned their elbows on the table, they made loud, swooping sounds with their lips, and, in short, transgressed every law known to civilized life. Ester Ried Yet Speaking
Seagulls prefer not to swoop down if there's a risk of them hitting a hard vertical surface. Times, Sunday Times
I only know that it was remarkable that he could react so swiftly and swoop down round the rabbit's ears.
When police swooped, he told a contact to hide evidence. Times, Sunday Times
Their violins swooped through czardas after czardas, just as drink poured down throat after throat. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
I'd seen a few stilts upstream, but now clumps of them were swooping and diving over the water.
The swoops included one on a flat which had been used as an address by 400 claimants. The Sun
A police patrol car swooped on the van near to junction 17 of the M4 and discovered a huge stash of equipment inside the vehicle.
Not only are you doubling the size of your family in one fell swoop, just think of all the extra clothes and nappies, cots and that triple road train sized pram.
In the broad and piebald field of eliptonic bibliophany, I will admit to being a sucker for Beauty, either as a physical artifact -- Manly Palmer Hall's Secret Teachings of All Ages being the epitome here -- or in prose style, which is far less common, though Charles Fort's rhetorical swoop and staccato larrup is a Mauve Decade ironist's delight. Kenneth Hite's Journal
Inside, too, the dramatic swoops and swirls of the present model's fascia have been replaced by a more restrained architecture.
Thousands of forged cards had already been used around the world to obtain 2million before cops swooped. The Sun
We swooped like some bird of prey over the advancing army. Anti-Ice
Then the hired barn owl swooped on to his arm carrying the rings in a bag in its claws. The Sun
No moans about the cold, just sheer exhilaration as we swooped down the brae to more photographs.
It is boldly-styled and quite dynamic looking, and features large square headlamps, a sharply-curved and creased bonnet, a swooping roofline and an eye-catching side window design.
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At one point Baldwin swooped one woman off her feet in a scene that was reminiscent of an old World War II movie reel celebrating the war's end.
A flock of owls swooped through her tower lands, hooting shrilly.
You caught the swoopy joy/anguish of a parent for a small child just toddling heedlessly into the world. Little Love (funded!)
More than 20 helicopters began swooping in low over the ocean.
In its favour, the new high-waister does nail the mood of the season at one fell swoop. Times, Sunday Times
Then the hired barn owl swooped on to his arm carrying the rings in a bag in its claws. The Sun
Following the dramatic swoop, eight men were sentenced to life imprisonment, to be released between 22 and 27 years later.
Two more jets swooped down and I think one guy peed himself.
Detectives swooped on the trio in the foyer of the hotel in a dramatic raid. The Sun
Finally, the site makes it easy to post a status update to all of your sites in one fell swoop: You simply click the 'What are you doing?'
Those that own the banks now hope that they can swoop in and buy up the nation's infrastructure for pennies on the dollar, or in this case aurar on the krona. Infowars
The orbiter has been swooping above and below the plane of Saturn's rings to study their fine structure up close.
I was captured by the Hans after my swooper was disabled in a fight with a Han airship and had drifted many hundred miles westward. The Airlords of Han
A peregrine falcon and a merlin swoop overhead, and the canyon soon curves to the left.
I spun around and clocked him in the fist with my big hand, then swooped in low for an uppercut with my little hand.
Twenty-one workers from eight different countries were arrested after immigration officers swooped on a pizza factory.
I set off from Hutton-le-Hole and climbed up a hill before swooping into the valley at an eye-watering 38 mph.
Even as they spoke, the black tarpaulin swooped from sight behind a big comber. THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN
Black pheasants scampered away into the long grass and a flock of white doves swooped between the trees ahead of us. Times, Sunday Times
Her hastened kiss sustains my pallid lips, her now strong arms embolden mine; her laughter lifts my body high, we swoop as one above the greening fields, the wheatstraw hills, the overflowing streams, the bountied oceans A Visit
He has contacts within the flashy high-speed world of Formula One and some of the men involved in his financial swoop for City are believed to be from the Grand Prix circuit.
They were all brave men at Lepanto on this memorable October day; but few there were like the corsair king, in whom a heart of fire was kept in check by a brain of ice, who, during the whole combat, never gave away a chance, or failed to swoop like an eagle from his eyry when the blunders of his enemy gave him the opportunity for which he watched. Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean
By making an example of Holy Trinity he could punish his Jesuit adversaries and demonstrate his orthodoxy in a single swoop.
Mother Nature is bountiful: golden eagles wheel, harriers swoop, otters play.
At sunset, everyone returns to the porch to swill rum punch and wait for the bats to swoop down.
When police swooped, he told a contact to hide evidence. Times, Sunday Times
Listen, you can't just swoop in here and start talking about dying.
As police cordoned off part of the crash sites, firefighting planes and helicopters swooped overhead to battle a brush fire started by the crash.
Across the water were four immature eagles soaring, swooping, and suffering the aggression of what we believe was a Merlin.
Armed police officers swooped on the village and Jones was arrested.
Officers acting on a tip-off swooped on a gang of robbers, believed to be armed with knives and coshes, just after they had held up a security van.
The hawk swooped down on the rabbit and killed it.
Parents leaving a school prize-giving ceremony faced a sea of yellow tickets after traffic wardens swooped during the presentation.
said Amanda, swooping pinkly upon them like an Australian galah. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
(Soundbite of song from album “Empty Houses Are Lonely”) CHRISTIAN HOARD reporting: On first listen to Tom Brosseau's mostly acoustic songs, his biggest asset seems to be a voice that recalls the androgynous swoops and swoons of sensitive compatriots, like Jeff Buckley and Devendra Banhart. Tom Brosseau: 'Empty Houses Are Lonely'
These beliefs may be wrong - the innocent who are indicted nevertheless may sit by in mute horror, and husbands who lose their families in one fell swoop may be frozen in depression as a result.
The gown was made of the smoothest painted red silk with a red lace trim on the hem and the neckline, which swooped down low in a prettily way.
And nearby, five Scandinavian countries have combined to build one compound, an architectural swoop of Nordic green.
The painter's torso, made of a palette or shield that trails wings or oars, is splattered with highly stylized daubs of paint that evoke not only paint but also open wounds, swooping birds or, even, bird droppings.
Far up above the noisy throng an ospray sailed on the blue expanse of the sky, and quick as thought swooped down upon a halibut which had ventured to take a peep at the rising sun. Tales From Two Hemispheres
A landlady was arrested when police swooped on a pub on the outskirts of Bolton town centre.
All the while, the Wampanoag, including their "sachem," or leader, Massasoit, were observing these sickly looking visitors, frail from hunger and disease, knowing they could wipe them out with one fell swoop. IndyStar.com Top Stories
Alex Ferguson is said to be "considering a future swoop", which The Mill believes is an unusually athletic kind of breakdance move. The Guardian World News
A seagull swooped down in front of her car, causing her to slam on the brakes.
It's pretty breathtaking to watch them swoop about but the poor thing must have been disappointed when it realised it wasn't an egg. Times, Sunday Times
Swoop (shrill collective myth) into thy grave merely to toil the scale to shrillerness per every madge and mabel dick and dave Needles and haystacks and such.
A fiery-necked nightjar swooped low over the ground and caught a white moth in its beak before ascending into an acacia tree. Let The Dead Lie
I saluted my rescuer with a roar and followed him as he swooped down on a giant yellow cobra that was constricting my friend.
Helicopters swooped across the dawn sky. Times, Sunday Times
Did you know that when a takeover is launched, the hedge funds and speculators can swoop in for a quick profit? Times, Sunday Times
A celestial organ devolves into the shrill shrieks of swooping banshees, and deep rumbles sound like the dyspeptic gurgles in a huge beasts' stomach.
A 22-year-old man has been arrested after police swooped on the four-bedroom home in Woodward Heights, Grays.
Over each the plane swooped low, so that the photographer might make pictures of the garlanded streets, the bannered steeples, the white marquees and tents in the opens fields, prepared for Jubilee teas. Writer With a Cause
This helicopter was flying dangerously low over the tree tops, swaying and swinging, turning around and swooping over again.
Benny Goodman, the clarinet player who looked like a banker but whose sound swooped and soared like a bird, led a band that sparked a worldwide craze in the 30s.
The steaming hot water of the bath had naturally fogged up the glass so with one swoop of her bony hand she wiped a streak clear.
Police swooped after a neighbour alerted them to two men acting suspiciously in a car nearby. The Sun
Police and Customs and Excise officers seized £5m worth of suspected drugs following a joint swoop near Brogborough.
The whole setting is wonderful, with the track swooping and plunging its way through magnificent pine forests.
Without one glance at her, he swooped up his bag and books, and stormed out the door.
The frosty air is full of swooping wings and harsh cries. Times, Sunday Times
We swooped like some bird of prey over the advancing army. Anti-Ice
The 19-year-old was arrested early today when police swooped on a house in the town.
By making an example of Holy Trinity he could punish his Jesuit adversaries and demonstrate his orthodoxy in a single swoop.
They heard his screams as the bird swooped. Times, Sunday Times
Its northern flank swooped up from the corrie floor at a vertiginous angle.
Like the CLS, the Shooting Break is a four-door, but with the same kind of swoopy design that evokes a traditional two-door shooting brake. Automotive Headlines
In one fell swoop the bank wiped away the tentative benefits of this policy.

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