Example Sentences

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Midnight Cowboy “has all the trappings of a film made for its time, swingingly right for the second half of 1969,” wrote then Guardian critic Derek Malcolm in a 1969 review of the film.

From The Guardian • Feb. 20, 2017

From the very start, Linklater’s astonishingly well-cast and well-meshed ensemble of actors appears both swingingly choreographed in daily motion and exhilaratingly, swaggeringly free.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 5, 2016

Now he tramped swingingly along a bowlder-broken creek bed which by local euphemism was called a road.

From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh

They sang loudly, swingingly, glancing full of naive hope up at the windows of the vast, unresponsive hotel.

From Sacred and Profane Love by Bennett, Arnold

He bears his bulk proudly, and would sit well any charger that were strong enough to bear him, and, if such a steed were not in stables, would walk the distance swingingly.

From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir