Example Sentences

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At fifty she was tall and slender, her hair a little gray, her neck graceful like a girl’s; she walked swayingly, and age was not a quality with which she seemed to have reckoned.

From The Heart's Country by Vorse, Mary Heaton

With perfect precision, and poise, the men and women of the couples separated, stepped swayingly, each towards the nearest of the couple to their right, and retreated.

From The Brimming Cup by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

He saw the beach comber sit up, and then, with much pain and difficulty, get swayingly to his feet.

From Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story by Terhune, Albert Payson

He pressed closer to the swayingly kneeling man, and with upthrust muzzle sought to kiss the blubbering face.

From His Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson

Some thirty men answered the call, made a swaying line upon a more swaying course, and bore the Governor most swayingly of all high in the arms as they staggered down to the river.

From Soldiers Three - Part 2 by Kipling, Rudyard