swooning

Example Sentences

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The crowd at the Indio festival, for instance, went wild for the puppets swooning to Ben Platt’s cover of Addison Rae’s hit tune “Diet Pepsi.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

Were this another sport—football, basketball, baseball—they’d be swooning over Alcaraz as an all timer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026

When Bowie briefly takes Connelly’s hand for the briefest one-two-three, one-two-three, imagining millions of hearts swooning in concert isn’t hard to do.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026

Listen to Blade Bird: The album's swooning climax, based on a Basque poem about the tension between love and possession.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025

The birds were untouched by the fire but swooning from the smoke.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri