swoon
verb (used without object)
to faint; lose consciousness.
swooningly
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a word derived from
swoon.
Example Sentences
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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
Set in 1962, at the height of the Cold War, and referencing midcentury monster movies and musicals, del Toro’s swooningly romantic film is less thriller than love letter to old Hollywood.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2017
There was one with Molly O’ Day and Milton Sills where he’s got an old-fashioned coffee grinder and he’s looking at her swooningly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2016
Yet I was neither brutally rude like Penfentenyou, nor swooningly bored like the Agent-General.
From A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling
