Example Sentences

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Look, I admire Elliot Page as much as the next LGBTQ+ person and was swooning just as hard over this incredible cover and the mystery around the hush-hush book with the super-private advanced copies.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 16, 2023

Reed, for his part, was swooning as he watched.

From New York Times • May 7, 2022

He saw disco mostly from the sidelines, as a spectacle; I was swooning in the middle of the crowd, lost in music.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 9, 2016

A Frenchman was swooning over American lamb and scallops!

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2015

Extreme fatigue was benumbing the pain of my now swelling arm; perhaps sleep was near, perhaps I was swooning.

From Old Man Savarin and Other Stories by Thomson, Edward William