sway
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Past FDA commissioners carefully avoided interfering in individual drug approvals, instead letting the scientific reviewers have sway.
Woodstock gets a solo moment too, whistling on Dog Marley’s “Three Little Birds,” set to a perfect one drop beat as Charlie Brown spirals out in a chicken suit while rubber chickens sway.
From Los Angeles Times
How do you avoid being swayed by market myths?
He had found the beasts swaying anxiously in the green grass that still surrounded the muddy drinking pool.
From Literature
It could create what former president of the Cleveland Fed, Loretta Mester, calls External link a “two popes situation” where investors get a little confused about who holds more sway.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
