swinging
Example Sentences
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John: “We’ve had the swinging sixties, and I was wondering, Mrs. Lennon, how you saw your place in the seventies?”
From Salon
He could win a match swinging an umbrella.
From Los Angeles Times
Armstrong’s deliciously swinging cover version became a hit single, one of a handful of small-group jazz recordings ever to do so, and he would perform it the world over until he died in 1971.
These ranged from the familiar swinging motion of a pendulum to the nonlinear behavior of electrical circuits, as well as models used in climate science and neural circuits.
From Science Daily
Joshua stalked him, swinging heavy lefts and rights that cut only air, with each miss drawing gasps from the crowd.
From BBC
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