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

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

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 isn't rare, though—twenty-four cents—I gave twopence for it; but I've had much more expensive ones, only I swopped them.

From The Giant's Robe by Anstey, F.

Gave me a ride once after that little piebald nag thee swopped Oliver’s calf for.

From Dorothy's House Party by Raymond, Evelyn