swivel
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After Iger departed, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones pushed back his swivel chair and stood to address the room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
It defines how predictably and agreeably a car will swivel its hips, under braking and throttle, without spinning out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Behind her, an elegantly decorated living room can be seen, with a large L-shaped gray couch set up against one wall opposite two cozy-looking white swivel chairs.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 15, 2026
The calmness and poise to turn and swivel on it.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025
I swivel around and take a deep breath.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
The Tiangong Omni swivels its torso wildly from side to side while waving its bent arms in front of its face.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
As the hulking antenna swivels into action, screens inside the control room light up with the names of objects the radar system detects: stars, satellites and abandoned rocket bodies.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
There’s a light, power outlets including a USB-C port, a small mirror and a TV that swivels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
He swivels in his chair to point to it over Zoom.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2023
When I don't answer, the armchair swivels around, and what I see makes my jaw drop.
From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi
Banks, dressed in a blue suit and tie, swiveled back and forth watching his lawyer and Hester, like watching a tennis match.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
The pupils, age 6 to 8, adjusted collars, swiveled belts and repositioned the name badges on their chests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Toney sent the ball out wide to Mads Roerslev who picked out Neal Maupay in the area, and the forward swiveled before volleying a left-footed strike inside the far post.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2024
They then swiveled their wings forward to continue on their way.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2023
I swiveled my chair to give her my full attention.
From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan
Having so nearly been out of the tie, Dortmund were right back in it soon afterwards when substitute Sebastien Haller swivelled to crash the ball in at the near post.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2024
It felt the game still had at least one more twist, and it arrived when fellow substitute Oda swivelled in the box, with his left-footed shot deflecting perfectly into the top corner.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2024
The best chance of the half fell to McFadden just over the half-hour mark when she swivelled and fired a half-cleared corner inches wide of the post.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2023
Verona took the lead in the ninth minute when Lazović gathered the ball with his back to goal and swivelled to fire into the roof of the net.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2023
He swivelled his huge right ear until it was parallel with the ground, then he placed Sophie gently inside it.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
“Every second, every volley, your head is swiveling from side to side,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025
I looked like an owl, my head swiveling on my neck, trying to take it all in.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2024
Colli, 76, liked swiveling in a chair to get a panoramic view.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2024
What isn’t allowed is big-ticket items - “appliances, for example,” he said, swiveling to point at the refrigerators behind him.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 28, 2023
Boston ladies, their skirts all passe- mentarie and furbelow, India silk and jaconet, crowded the chambers, swiveling their hoops and panniers like dames on clocks to navigate the doors.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
The former model was visiting her native Australia from her home in the US when she spotted groups of people swivelling wooden hoops around their waists.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2025
Stina Blackstenius opened the scoring, controlling the ball on her chest and swivelling to finish.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2023
He can spend his days swivelling around in the Oval Office before retiring.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2020
A figure in head-to-toe metallic coverings braced one limb against the door frame, swivelling its helmeted head back and forth at us.
From Nature ● Jan. 28, 2020
The golden ship that had led him here was swivelling in the wind.
From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick
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