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
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
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
The rest of us swopped yarns of an evening.
From Adventures of a Despatch Rider by Watson, William Henry Lowe
I've swopped all my marls with the little fellows; and cobnuts are no fun, you silly—only when the nuts are green.
From Tom and Maggie Tulliver by Eliot, George
