swoop

This was a handy way to trigger various features, like clearing all notifications in one swoop.

Roland hung down his head, thunderstruck by an announcement which, at one swoop, dashed away all his hopes.

Madam Johnsen stood there as though she would like to swoop down on their heads.

He thought of that swift flight of aeroplanes like the swoop of Fate towards him.

Presently they began to swoop fiercely at some animal—a fisher, probably—that was climbing the tree below.

But what became of the families of the habitans after this swoop of your foragers?

There, down like a brown flash he was gone, and surely that swoop meant a desert tragedy.

The one preferred the eyrie from which, like the vulture, he could swoop to plunder, and to which he could fly for safety.

Genoa the Superb had many enemies always on the alert to swoop down upon her trade.

His swoop became a demonstration merely, an expression of his rage at having his prey thus snatched from his beak.