swooping in English

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

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1. Then having a blooming great saint swooping down.

2. But venture capitalists are swooping in like vultures.

3. A hawk hovered in the air before swooping on its prey.

4. Flocks of gulls curiously hovered around us , swooping up and down .

5. 12 Mildred looked up and saw Maud swooping over the gates,[www.Sentencedict.com] waving her hat in the air.

6. They skim past like boats of papyrus, like eagles swooping down on their prey.

7. But then a dragon came swooping in, breathing fire out of its dragon nostrils and lights the house on fire.

8. They were like a great flock of gulls swooping to tear and gobble at their prey.

9. In one of those swings of mood she experienced, swooping backwards and forwards like a pendulum, Blanche was frothy again.

10. 28 He was continually fancying that a cannon ball was swooping down upon him with a fearful whiz.

11. 30 In one of those swings of mood she experienced, swooping backwards and forwards like a pendulum, Blanche was frothy again.

12. Sometimes a particularly bold individual will risk a real attack, swooping in from behind the owl and striking at its plumage.

13. Yeah, if you cut their bellies a little bit... the vultures will come swooping down at, like, 35 miles an hour.

14. In vision, the prophet saw the Chaldeans (or, Babylonians), a “nation bitter and impetuous,” swooping down on Judah and destroying Jerusalem, swallowing up peoples and nations in the process.

15. The grass pushing up on my seat, the scraggly thistle stem rubbing my shirt, the brown-breasted swallow swooping downhill: they are a single thing stretching out in many directions.

16. Canoodlers looks hip -- bright colors, swooping birds, titles in the table of contents alternating between black and gray, all befitting the coming-of-age story told in the book.

17. Cuban authorities do not see Bruguera as a Causeless rebel so much as a calculated provocateur, backed by anti-Castro forces abroad, who is swooping in for a political stunt

18. The phrase “back-hand english” is also sometimes used to refer to a swooping stroke, where the Back hand is moved sideways during the forward stroke (see stroke swoop), but here the focus is on aim-and-pivot BHE, where the Back hand is moved before the stroke, after lining up the shot for a center-ball hit.