sway
verb (used without object)
to move or swing to and fro, as something fixed at one end or resting on a support.
swayingly
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a word derived from
sway.
Example Sentences
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He got swayingly to his feet and made a perilous attempt to walk through the sky.
From The Sky Trap by Frank Belknap Long
Long as they were in sight, the bulky form of the captive was seen at times swayingly towering over the flashing bayonets and cutlasses, like a great whale breaching amid a hostile retinue of sword-fish.
From Israel Potter by Herman Melville
A little swayingly the White Linen Nurse shifted her standing weight from one foot to the other.
From The White Linen Nurse by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
And in the window as she stood there, swayingly, was a dark, blurred thing which might have been anything at all.
From Lifted Masks; stories by Susan Glaspell
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 Rudyard Kipling
