Example Sentences
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Mr. Mellon and I chatted for a moment and swopped friendly boasts about how each of us had recently taken a ten-mile walk to keep fit.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It was a piece of warm sweet potato pie with some white fluffy stuff called whipped cream swopped all over the top of it.
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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After we’d picked up our spoons and bowls a lady dug a big mess of oatmeal out of a giant pot and swopped it down into our bowls.
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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An' come right from yo' daughter's weddin' an' swopped hosses with a preacher.
From The Starbucks by Opie Percival Read
The rest of us swopped yarns of an evening.
From Adventures of a Despatch Rider by William Henry Lowe Watson