swoop

However the clock change will bring sunset forward by an hour in one fell swoop which may come as a shock to the system.

He turned upside-down the traditional playbook for solving international crises, in which diplomats work behind the scenes to iron out differences between warring parties, before world leaders swoop in and announce a deal.

The drones drop grenades or antipersonnel mines, or swoop on targets and explode on impact.

He said a snowy egret swooped down and looked like it was going to dive for my head, then decided not to.

Grief, too, steers us, a cleansing ritual, as I recall each time my wife and I meander beneath Green-Wood’s leafy canopy, parakeets swooping and chattering overhead, or sit quietly in its hushed chapel.