swimming

Example Sentences

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No one would ever be able to go sailing or swimming again.

From MarketWatch

The discovery that bacteria can colonize surfaces even when their normal swimming machinery fails has important health implications.

From Science Daily

Plans he unveiled this week to take public both a new investment fund and his hedge-fund firm will have him swimming against the Wall Street tide in multiple ways.

From The Wall Street Journal

Then, his eyes were red from crying and his skinny arms were swimming in the too-big jersey that used to be his dad’s.

From Literature

By Thursday morning, when Jeff was still at it with his “Cobra, Cobraman, oh, yeah,” a thought was beginning to grow inside me, as if it was swimming up from somewhere deep down.

From Literature