Definition: 1. To move backwards or forwards or from side to side while hanging from a fixed point; to make something do this. 2. To move or make something move with a wide curved movement. 3. Changing location by moving back and forth. 4. A style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz. 5. A jaunty rhythm in music.
Use 'swing' in a sentence:
1. Young sunflowers turn and swing every day.
2. The kids were playing on the swings.
3. Does your parrot have a swing?
4. Even lacquer, which is a more uncertain market than either porcelain or jade, went as a swing.
5. I'll swing by your house on the way home from work.
6. There are two dogs between the swing and the seesaw.
7. He swung himself out of the car.
8. I fell off a swing.
9. When you point downwards and swing your arm from side to side, it means "no".
10. He swung his leg over the motorcycle, straddling it easily.
11. The game could swing either way.
12. We swing on the swings together.
13. 1940's swing was belittled by beboppers of the 1950's who were themselves attacked by free jazzes of the 1960's.
14. Do you have a swing, a slide or a seesaw on your playground?
15. I need to work on my swing.
16. Keeping your back straight, swing one leg backwards.
17. The swing floated in the air.
18. Between the trees a long board is hanging--it is a swing.
19. John suddenly jumped off the swing without even slowing down.
20. Voting showed a 10% swing to Labour.
21. Though Swing is now popular worldwide, it first appeared alongside the jazz movements of the 1920s and 1930s in New York City.
22. I always play on the swing and the slide in my garden.
23. I'm learning swing dance.
24. I don't think there's anything wrong with her ─ she's just swinging the lead.
25. Gently swing your right arm in a clockwise direction.
26. There was a sandpit, a seesaw and a swing in the playground.
27. My favorite sports are rope skipping, running, long jump, rubber band skipping, and riding on the swing.
28. Why do swings can swing?
29. When he's not on the tennis court, you'll find him practising his golf swing.
30. A swing, a bursting bubble--such is my song!
31. We're trying to swing it so that we can travel on the same flight.
32. The door swung shut with a bang.
33. The boat swung broadside on to the current of the river.
34. The door swung open.
35. His arms swung as he walked.
36. For the uninitiated, Western Swing is a fusion of jazz, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and country music.
37. He took a wild swing at the ball.
38. He swung his legs over the side of the bed.
39. She swung herself over the gate in one smooth movement.
40. As he pushed her, she swung higher and higher.
41. I managed to swing them round to my point of view.
42. The bus swung sharply to the left.
43. In two years' time there is a presidential election, and the voters could swing again.
44. Making a recent comeback, swing dance floors have popped up all over the world.
45. The gunshot sent monkeys swinging away through the trees.
46. Install a trapeze swing onto their swing set.
47. A line of cars swung out of the palace gates.
48. The rusty hinges grated as the gate swung back.
49. When we arrived the party was already in full swing.
50. The door swung open, disclosing a long dark passage.
51. The state has swung from Republican to Democrat.
52. She swung the door open.
53. In education, the pendulum has swung back to traditional teaching methods.
54. Is there any chance of you swinging us a couple of tickets?
55. Some addicts suffer violent mood swings if deprived of the drug.
