Example Sentences

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Professor Laski, who has been skimming, swallow-like, from one European socialist conference to another, was also irresistibly attracted.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes it skitters exhilaratingly around its bright upper reaches, then makes darting swallow-like swoops into the dark, resonant chest-tone regions of a Marilyn Home.

From Time Magazine Archive

Eyes arched with fan-shielded whispers, and fair faces, fore-shortened as they turned back over powder-white shoulders, followed their swallow-like movement.

From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie

It is swallow-like in both its appearance and manner of flight, and though web-footed is rarely seen to light on the water.

From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Ballou, Maturin Murray

Then go thy way, And leave me clean and bright, though poor; Who stops thee doth but daub his floor; And, swallow-like, when he hath done, To unknown dwellings must be gone!

From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)