swoop

Object

• police: Swiss police swooped on Friday to arrest a 45-year-old man.
• officer: Matthew Burton was arrested after officers swooped on a suspected crack den in Dunlin, Letchworth Garden City, on September 15.

Converse of object

• fall: In one fell swoop, I'm into bed, The sheets up round my neck.

Adjective modifier

• double: Ben Petty is the other half in the double swoop on Stoke City.
• big: Considering the big swoops and bends that the tremolo arm can deliver, the tuning stays remarkably accurate.

Adjective complement

• low: Giant bird swooping low Quickly darting, hovering slow, Eye glaring, beak tearing, Prey eaten out of sight.
• past: As I ran past the circus head quarters down Walcott fen an owl swooped past.

Modifying Another Word

• overhead: On one occasion, around lunchtime, people in the village heard airplane gunfire and a German plane swooped overhead, firing its guns.
• down: The raven will swoop down to investigate the brass egg.
• then: The plane then swooped in a tight circle back to the shore by now fairly low.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• down: A former soldier, Richard swoops down upon the sleepy peak district town of his birth from a deserted hilltop farmhouse.
• around: Luckily there was some bats swooping around for us to watch.
• up: Both planes swooped up, from my'mind's eye ' , little more than 100 feet from the ground.

Followed by a transitive particle

• down: We swooped down the big hill right onto the very busy harbor.

Infinitive complement

• sign: Derby County have swooped to sign up Matthew Oakley, longest serving player with Southampton.

Noun used with modifier

• eagle: A bald eagle swoops across the bay and perches on a tall spruce.
• police: News: Arrests after drugs seized in police swoop News: A true Toy Story!
• bird: The birds swoop from formation and bomb the player's laser base.
• drug: The drugs swoop has been planned for more than three months and has involved intelligence gathering and observation techniques.

Modifies a noun

• landing: Many people are trying to perform swoop landings without the needed " survival " skills.