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full swing

noun

  1. full operation; greatest activity:

    For the first time in years the factory was in full swing. The meeting was in full swing when we arrived.



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Example Sentences

Before Fidel, when segregation was in full swing, the Cuban apartheid meant many clubs and parks still refused black Cubans entry.

We arrived to the din of a party in full swing: a band, multiple kegs of beer, dancing, foosball, and mantle diving.

Frank Gehry is enjoying a major moment: his retrospective is in full swing in Paris and his latest creation opens today.

Hours after these reports, one of which I published, the mania was in full swing.

When they heard gunfire, they realized that the operation was in full swing and it was time to escape.

While a one-step was in full swing some would-be wag suddenly turned off all the lights.

But at the earlier period I am writing of he gave a full swing to his passionate eloquence.

By the middle of April the enemy's forward movement was in full swing.

The Alençon affair was soon in full swing again, the young prince writing love-letters to the lady whom he had not seen.

This place presents a wonderful and even terrible aspect at night, when the rail-mill and steam-hammers are in full swing.

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