Example Sentences

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Frasers has built a reputation for swooping in to buy retail brands which have fallen into administration, but its gradual increase in ownership of profit-making Hugo Boss over several years is a different approach.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

As the office market bottoms out after a long fall, renters are swooping in to buy their own buildings.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

In the mornings, Christine eagerly awaits the brightly colored, highly vocal birds swooping into their garden, whooping their greetings before flying off into the junglelike foliage.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

Only in the past couple of years, Sansom explained, did watchful staff members start swooping in to “borrow” Bamberger’s chain saw whenever they caught him tramping around the property with one.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

Cejas, eyebrows, go swooping across his small brow.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads