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swoop

[swoop] / swup /
VERB
descend quickly
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


Example Sentences

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However, the current level could establish a floor for the stock as bargain hunters swoop in.

From Barron's

However, it was not a sustained search by trained people it was intended for, but a swoop by soldiers, a place to get out of sight for half an hour.

From Literature

On Jan. 3, the military forces he commanded folded quickly as American commandos swooped in on helicopters and seized Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.

From The Wall Street Journal

Her face was tucked into his shoulder, and her back hair was coming unpinned as they swooped from railing to railing.

From Literature

He stood at their very roots: craning his neck at vast, swooping ice-faces, at black peaks that pierced the clouds.

From Literature