sways
- present tense form of sway (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The Grecian poet's myth Sways still each battlefield.
From Complete Poetical Works by Harte, Bret
And grasps me now a long-unwonted yearning For that serene and solemn Spirit-Land: My song, to faint Aeolian murmurs turning, Sways like a harp-string by the breezes fanned.
From Faust by Taylor, Bayard
"As thick as when a field Of Ceres, ripe for harvest, waving bends His bearded grove of ears, which way the wind Sways them."
From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander
The wind, wailing ever, with motion uncertain Sways sighingly there the drench'd tent's tatter'd curtain, To and fro, up and down.
From The Canadian Elocutionist by Howard, Anna Kelsey
King Romance with wand of gold Sways the realms he ruled of yore.
From Ban and Arriere Ban by Lang, Andrew
