swoop in English

noun
1
a swooping or snatching movement or action.
four members were arrested following a swoop by detectives on their homes
verb
1
(especially of a bird) move rapidly downward through the air.
the barn owl can swoop down on a mouse in total darkness
2
seize with a sweeping motion.
she swooped up the hen in her arms

Use "swoop" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "swoop" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "swoop", or refer to the context using the word "swoop" in the English Dictionary.

1. Police swoop on Birdwatchers outside school

2. Police made a dawn swoop.

3. The eagle hovered, ready to swoop at any moment.

4. Like eagles that swoop down on their prey.

5. The plane made a swoop over the city.

6. The fish hits the hook at one swoop.

7. And flying tonight ... the Falcons swoop in for a new season.

8. They swoop down like the eagle rushing to feed.

9. The Kui army are waiting to swoop like vultures!

10. The hawk poised in mid-air ready to swoop.

11. I got all my Christmas shopping done in one fell swoop.

12. In one fell swoop the bank wiped away the tentative benefits of this policy.

13. Police arrested a man in a swoop on his house last night.

14. The eagle poised in mid-air ready to swoop on its prey.

15. Police held 10 suspected illegal immigrants after a swoop on a German lorry.

16. We saw the eagle swoop from the sky to catch its prey.

17. It'seemed the plane was going to swoop down and strafe the town.

18. 26 The eagle poised in mid-air ready to swoop on its prey.

19. These women use their powerful wings to swoop in and lift up the container containing “Wickedness.”

20. Then they will suddenly swoop down to catch mammals or sometimes insects or worms.

21. Overhead, black vultures may be waiting to swoop down and gobble them up.

22. She sprang off the bed and reached the window in a swoop of wild excitement.

23. If the new law is passed, it will remove press freedom in one fell swoop.

24. The Carrion swoop around the adventurers, but make no attempt to carry anyone off.

25. 14 And they will swoop down on the slopes* of the Phi·lisʹtines to the west;

26. When we park the shopping cart and dump our bag, they swoop down to investigate.

27. 28 A hawk hovered in the sky(Sentencedict.com),(www.Sentencedict.com) waiting to swoop down on its prey.

28. Then we can get The Badger, we can get the buyer in one fell swoop.

29. It seemed that the plane was going to swoop down and strafe the town, so we dived for cover.

30. In one swoop the feeling swallowed her up and she had never got rid of it since.

31. In one fell swoop, he has caused severe pain and robbed his wife of her trusted confidant.

32. Egypt’s eighth plague, locusts, “is again poised to swoop on Africa,” reports The Weekly Mail & Guardian newspaper.

33. As soon as the adventurers stop moving, the Harpies will swoop down from their roosts in the rock.

34. The most difficult thing afoot is to keep our problem child from blowing it in one fell swoop.

35. If they ditch in the sea their long wings can get critically waterlogged With every swoop, they risk drowning

36. The Afterburners was a swoop gang based on the planet Entralla during the formative years of the New Republic

37. In one fell swoop, the authors have denied the deeply traumatizing consequences of extreme verbal and emotional abuse.

38. Natural predators, sparrowhawk and kestrel, swoop in on regular raids and the garden is visited by fox and weasel.

39. Despite the drop-off, analysts said they were encouraged by the elimination of the securities in one fell swoop.

40. 17 For there is an unspoken rule that to swoop too eagerly on the in-flight sweet is uncool.

41. Betty was the Blue Girl, with a hawk-wing swoop of black hat, forbidding gaze, hands grasping the white chair.

42. English words for Avaler include swallow, gulp, take internally, get down, drink down, drop, put away, drink in, pouch and swoop

43. 30 Betty was the Blue Girl, with a hawk-wing swoop of black hat, forbidding gaze, hands grasping the white chair.

44. There is something in the very words "flying column" to Appease the impatient; wings in the air, a swoop upon the victim

45. Specifically, white-bellied sea eagles, wedge-tailed eagles, and some hawks are known to swoop in a snatch up a young boa Constrictor with their sharp talons.

46. Backslapper 141 points 142 points 143 points 1 year ago Or, worst-come-to-worst, come back at night and swoop straight down on them from way up high

47. Bioprinting is an economical, accurate and relatively easy method of manufacturing tissues/organs that effectively solves the problem of donor organ shortages and donor rejection in one fell swoop

48. “Every single cat in the world can fly,” he sighs, “except me!” Caramba would love to swoop and glide between the clouds, to feel the wind whistling through his fur.

49. Whenever a protest boils up, it's a safe bet that soon after, some public official will blame any violence, disruption or looting on "outside Agitators" — mysterious outsiders who swoop in from out

50. Not wanting to let a "serious crisis go to waste, " in the words of Obama aide Rahm Emanuel, Democrats might swoop in and deliver the death blow to US taxpayers -- a European-style value-added tax.