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Meanings of swung like in English

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Usage of swung like in English
1
The slender canoe swung like a hammock in the long, sluggish rollers.
White Shadows in the South Seas
2
Its long spiked tail swung like a nervous cat's through the air.
Touching darkness
3
The pail got fuller and fuller, and swung like a pendulum.
A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories
4
The long red hair swung like a shawl around the Duchess of Aquitaine.
The Secret Eleanor
5
The hoop swung like a bell with, me as the clapper.
The Laughing Corpse
6
The long, slender legs of the girl moved rhythmically and her arms swung like pendulums.
A Man Four-Square
7
As he put his feet upon this, he swung like a pendulum across the space.
The Voice on the Wire
8
Her ponytail swung like the pendulum of a clock.
The First Lie
9
The blossoms swung like blossoms on the trees.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20,...
10
The axe-head swung like a circle of steel.
Man-Size
11
He swung like a pendulum between these two difficulties and grew daily more nervous and unhappy.
The Scotch Twins
12
He had a big can of water, which he swung like a censer as he danced.
Despair's Last Journey
13
He swung like a hammock between them.
The marrowbone marble company
14
From there, momentum swung like a pendulum.
Reuters
15
A flame, seemingly detached, swung like an acrobat and licked up the palm heads on the platform.
Lord of the Flies
16
And he pulled on the side rope, so that the door swung like the pendulum of a clock.
Dave Porter at Star Ranch; Or, The Cowboy's Secret
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common