swish
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When it’s your turn, everyone gets into an oversize yellow inner tube, and you swish through an enclosed waterslide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
Wembanyama, just 21 years old, can already do anything he likes on the basketball court: block shots, slam home dunks, swish jumpers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
Swann was lofted over long-off for six by a languid swish of Agar's blade.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2025
Online and onstage, he’s bitingly funny, roasting the matcha-sipping, Clairo-stanning performative-male stereotypes of his generation of softbois, while also dancing with a low-buttoned, Bowie-worthy swish at the MTV Video Music Awards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025
It felt like the soft swish of corn tassels and being one step closer to an impossible dream.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
He generates his power as the bat swishes back through the line to make contact.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
Daunno does an expert disaffected indie head nod and foot bounce while he plays, and Shen is thoroughly convincing on the keys with her hair swishes and tentative backing vocals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
The nets singed with swishes, same as they ever had.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2022
Kentucky wound its way to the last of its many swishes.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2021
It swishes around my feet with every step I take.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
He soared for dunks and even swished a 3-pointer from the half-court line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
Mikal Bridges scampered back for a leaning, desperate three that swished straight through.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
Javon Carter had tied it for the Magic with 1.1 seconds left in the second extra period before Green swished the game-winner.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
He swished the first of two attempts at the foul line, then calmly hit the second to end the first-to-25 points finale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
A feathery rustle swished by in the blackness.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
Duckett looked horribly out of touch, swishing and swiping.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026
It’s believed that there are now more than 100 baby trout swishing around their new digs in Arroyo Hondo Creek in Santa Barbara County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2025
In the partially enclosed waiting area, parents stand on both sides of me, hoisting their kids onto their shoulders to watch the cars glide through the tracks of swishing cloth towers.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 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
Sure enough, another college girl came by soon, her pink sari swishing around her heels.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
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