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sway - use in sentences
Object
- palm: In the evenings, a canopy of stars shine over the swaying palms.
- voter: To sway voters we are seeing was being developed.
- opinion: He must be the man to help sway public opinion in Britain.
- tree: The sun shines, warm breezes sway the trees.
- hip: Swing your forearms in the direction of the slide whilst swaying the hips in the same direction also.
- crowd: Dogsby is already trying to sway the crowd on his side, in giving useful praise.
Converse of object
- hold: Freud's belief System Home Free Articles Freud's belief System Freud's belief system held sway over much 20th century thinking.
Adjective modifier
- postural: Analysis of postural motion during exposure to the moving room revealed increases in postural sway before the onset of subjective motion sickness symptoms.
- held: More recently, had the likes of Petty held sway, we might not have even started this season with league status to lose.
- undisputed: Did too many other local lairds hold property in Innermessan to allow the Kennedies undisputed sway?
- absolute: And there were the eggs, forever barring him from the Kingdom which he had ruled so long with absolute sway!
Modifying Another Word
- gently: The beaches are backed by gently swaying palm trees.
- violently: BEWARE: Trains heading north on the fast lines do cause severe turbulence against the platform fence - causing it to sway quite violently.
- backward: We kept swaying backward and forward at an angle of forty-five degrees with no way of stopping or protecting ourselves.
Noun used with modifier
- holding: In terms of being the number one Box Office draw and holding sway over everyone else?
- trailer: Travel trailer sway elimination and related safety products for travel trailers and recreational vehicles.
Preposition: in
- breeze: I've seen how their branches swayed in the breezes.
- wind: A panel of gold foil swaying in the autumn wind.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- along: The two of them swaying along to the song.
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