swishing
Example Sentences
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They see him swishing shots from astonishing distance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025
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
Hutton said: "A horse will move a fly off its backside by swishing its tail, it will react to the lightest of touches."
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 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
It stopped there, right in the middle of the path, grinning with all its teeth shining white, licking its lips, its eyes glowing, its broad tail swishing back and forth slowly, back and forth—” “Enough!”
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
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