swish
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She grilled Claude for the right combination of swish and sparkles, to the amusement of her nosy older sister.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Notwithstanding Bill Plaschke’s tendency for hyperbole, his article on Caitlin Clark was a three-point swish from half-court.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026
Wembanyama, just 21 years old, can already do anything he likes on the basketball court: block shots, slam home dunks, swish jumpers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
Instead, what connects both failures was the fact they were again both drives - the first aggressive swish edged to the slips before a more tentative push.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
Helen pats me on the knee, and her long earrings swish back and forth.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
He generates his power as the bat swishes back through the line to make contact.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
To some people, the swishes also looked like loons, the official state bird.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
Daunno does an expert disaffected indie head nod and foot bounce while he plays, and Shen is thoroughly convincing on the keys with her hair swishes and tentative backing vocals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
At one point an enormous koi swishes across the rear wall.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2022
As Renee swishes back into her seat — and I must admit she can still swish in a world-champion kind of way — Annette jabs me again, right in the same spot.
From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick
So it swished in—and Game 1 was over.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
Wembanyama swished jump shots and soared for alley-oop dunks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Javon Carter had tied it for the Magic with 1.1 seconds left in the second extra period before Green swished the game-winner.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
As it swished, he pounded his chest, knowing he’d guaranteed the Trojans at least one more day at the end of an otherwise frustrating season with a 97-89 win over Rutgers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2025
My orderly had cut paper into strips and tied the strips to a stick to make a brush that swished the flies away.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
In the summer of 1979 he moved into a house in the Hollywood Hills, and soon adorned its pool with swishing strokes of blue paint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
Between the pomp surrounding donning one’s holy livery, pointed glares and swishing red silks and velvets, these cassocked clergymen make bored teenagers seem kind.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2024
The TGV trains swishing through the French countryside at 230 mph were in stark contrast to the UK’s creaking rolling stock.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2024
Cats display a wide range of visual signals: tails swishing side to side, or raised high in the air; rubbing and curling around our legs; crouching; flattening ears or widening eyes.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
I focus on the sounds of my own body propelling me forward—my feet drumming against the ground, my arms swishing against the sides of my tank top, my breath whooshing in and out.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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