swearing

Example Sentences

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Swearing in anger directly at other MPs would almost certainly break the rules, but occasionally an MP can get away with a rude word.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2023

Swearing just like Roy regularly does in the award-winning show about a family jockeying for control of a media empire, Cox playfully shouted as he and his fellow cast members posed for pictures together.

From Reuters • Mar. 21, 2023

"The Swearing Jar" captures the shifting family dynamics between these three characters as a situation unmoors them all.

From Salon • Sep. 23, 2022

Swearing at an enemy as they’re invading is an act of performative resistance, says Paul Musgrave, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2022

Swearing love for art, they hovered on the edge of Bohemian life.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright