Example Sentences

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When I dream that I’m flying, I need to jump and use my arms as if I am swimming.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2024

“But now I feel like I am swimming in it. You spend so much time in denial, it can be hard to break out of that.”

From The New Yorker • May 8, 2017

Honestly, though, I feel like I am swimming against the current—lately, I have seen a forgetting and dismissal, in academia, of their work; it is as if their insights are somehow passé.

From Salon • Jul. 2, 2012

"I knew with the way I am swimming races at the moment I had to go out and give it everything from the start," she said.

From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2010

Immediately, I feel the effects—a kind of floatiness, as though I am swimming through air.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black