swooningly
- a word derived from swoon.
Example Sentences
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In the swooningly beautiful 1990 film “Days of Being Wild,” Tony Leung gets one of the greatest entrances — and exits — ever accorded an actor in a single movie.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2021
If “Mrs. Dalloway” is a swooningly gorgeous book, it is also a dark and disquieting one.
From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2020
Incredibly, given its subject matter, the song sounds swooningly romantic.
From The Guardian • Mar. 19, 2020
Like all of French’s novels, The Witch Elm can be swooningly evocative: “Voices, clear as robins’, making me jump.
From Slate • Oct. 9, 2018
Yet I was neither brutally rude like Penfentenyou, nor swooningly bored like the Agent-General.
From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard
