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Meanings of sway in English
Synonyms
Examples for "rock"
Examples for "rock"
1
He said: ''My business is with Isengard tonight, with rock and stone.''
2
Four Icelanders and an American asked the question: Can rock climbing help?
3
The government plans to control the state before hitting rock-bottom, he said.
4
However, local climbers have long felt the area's dearth of quality rock.
5
There is a rock rising from a great turquoise sea of sand.
1
For me, the balance must always tilt strongly in favour of freedom.
2
The tilt had to be the right amount to avoid severe seasons.
3
One key difference between Earth and Mars is their tilt, he said.
4
He is the prince of the tilt-yard; none can stand against him.
5
The rink and the ground opposite the hotel were in full tilt.
1
Then I saw the blinding flash of a star careen toward its zenith.
2
To ride and float, plume and careen, to plume myself on pleasures unseen.
3
Johnny was driving too fast, the car seemed to careen around every curve.
4
The 3d July I hove my ship down on the careen to sheath her.
5
He came hither to careen, therefore hauled into the harbour and unrigged his ship.
Catalan
contornejar-se Usage of sway in English
1
How come these ideas continue to hold sway, despite our best efforts?
2
Powerful professional interests, with widespread but ultimately ill-informed public support, held sway.
3
However in this remote region, ceremonies such as Sapana still hold sway.
4
Do you think pseudo-scientific claims have too much sway over public opinion?
5
The sway and influence behind Roumania controls the situation in the Balkans.
6
Sano said nothing, hoping Noguchi's love of scholarly research would sway him.
7
But so far at least, he hadn't been able to sway her.
8
Neither mercy nor reason could sway him; silver was his only measure.
9
She needed to think, to devise some argument to sway her father.
10
The tall palms began to sway and rustle in the forerunning breeze.
11
Aminta was passive as a water-weed in the sway of the tide.
12
The semicircular arch of the thirteenth century still holds sway in Provence.
13
They are the new generation who hold sway in Irish charity circles.
14
Investors are drawing parallels with the 1980s, when similar policies held sway.
15
Try to think what you'd choose if you weren't under his sway.
16
There is no common principle of popular sway recognized in the Constitution.
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Sway through the time
Sway across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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Ireland
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