Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: swaying
IPA transcription: [sw'eɪɪŋ]
Usage examples
  • She had again arisen and was swaying from side to side.
  • But the most curious thing about the swaying leaves was their color.
  • Diana was on her feet, swaying giddily, powerless to help him, cold with dread.
  • As soon as possible they finished dressing, while the creaking and swaying continued.
  • One minute only, swaying and nodding there, I stood: and then I dropped down flat in swoon.
  • But now, to speak in an Irish way, the crowd takes the platform, and looking down, sees itself swaying.
  • Tom climbed over the logs in the tender; then, balancing carefully, he stood up and clutched the top of the swaying freight car.
  • From right to left of the huge interior, across the platforms, swelling every instant, surged an enormous swaying, roaring crowd.
  • A black, tar-papered shack went scudding past, lodged upon a ridge where the water was shallower, and sat there swaying drunkenly.
  • In a flash he was in the dark. Then he felt himself gently lifted until he was swaying in the air, with the folds of the leaf hugging him on all sides.