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
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 Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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
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 Albert Payson Terhune
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 Mary Heaton Vorse
