Example Sentences

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Markets in Greater China have been swaying in reaction to moves by Chinese regulators to prop up the ailing property market.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2023

Stocks have been swaying between between gains and losses as investors try to better gauge the direction of the economic recovery through the rest of the year.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2021

He really in his own person might at these moments have been swaying a little aloft as one of the objects in her poised basket.

From The Wings of the Dove, Volume II by James, Henry

Her vision of him had swum away in a blur, and without the support she got from him she'd have been swaying giddily.

From The Real Adventure by Crosby, Raymond Moreau

The centre of interest was not a fight, they were sure, otherwise the ring would have been swaying this way and that.

From The Mark Of Cain by Lang, Andrew