swat
Example Sentences
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She swatted the shot back into the freshman’s face.
From Los Angeles Times
Like someone tried to swat my arm and just got cloth.
From Literature
Aficionados of Chicago-style hot dogs have a strong aversion to using ketchup, so they filmed a bit showing the co-worker swatting a bottle of ketchup out of Hawkins’s hand and creating a mess.
This now looks more like the Celtic of a year ago, when Rodgers had the team at the peak of its powers, swatting domestic opposition aside and looking like a very decent Champions League outfit.
From BBC
Tired of spending frigid winters shoveling snow, or of sweating bullets and swatting mosquitoes in the summer?
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
