swim
Example Sentences
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"I'm extremely careful for myself, for my children who can't swim yet," he added.
From Barron's • May 26, 2026
A family member, who did not wish to be identified, told the BBC the girl was a 16-year-old pupil at Kingsbury School and she could not swim.
From BBC • May 26, 2026
They designed one to get wet, allowing for a swamp swim that nods to “Apocalypse Now.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
When Chinook salmon swim upstream from the ocean to spawn in rivers and creeks, they need cold water for their eggs to survive.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
The waves made it impossible to swim in a straight line, and the western shore of the lake was in a different region of Ghana!
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
Vocabulary lists containing swim
Words with Two Past-Tense Forms That Creeped (or Crept) into English
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Words to Know and Academic Words, Unit 6
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