Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: swayed
IPA transcription: [sw'eɪd]
Usage examples
  • The floor swayed and rocked beneath the young man's feet.
  • The forest swayed like an ardent swain deep lost in thought.
  • In the front row a woman stood up, swayed and shaken as a leaf in the wind.
  • Now it was going fast, now faster, now it rocked and swayed as it gathered speed.
  • The sled swayed and trembled, half-started forward. One of his feet slipped, and one man groaned aloud.
  • When the lights went up fully, the Phoenix, balancing itself on the gilded back of a chair, swayed in ecstasy.
  • There was a dull, weight-like feeling in his stomach, and, when he tried to walk, his head swayed and he tottered.
  • The long barrel of a rifle, foreshortened to a black point, above it a cold eye, fronted and followed them as they swayed.
  • The plant was one of the species of cacti, and was provided with long, tentacular leaves that perpetually swayed with the slightest breeze with a peculiar beckoning motion.
  • Their cheeks were rosy red, and their necks and shapes gracefully swayed, and their eyes wantoned like the gazelle's; and the slave-girls came to meet them with instruments of music.