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How to use SWIFT in a sentence

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Many embraced Mohammedonism to escape slavery and at least some joined the xebecs, the swift three masted boats used by the pirates.
The frigates easily outgunned the pirates but had trouble blockading their swift, shore-hugging xebecs.
It took all my willpower to restrain from running to the harbor and instead follow Mr. Kenton at a swift pace.
His jaw clenched as he walked in two swift strides to the door and pulled it open, nearly yanking it off the hinges.
They inhabit swift streams, the backwaters of large rivers, brackish lagoons, and potholes.
Let's hope that those responsible for the proper use of State funds experience a swift reality check in the interim.
An hour out we came across a swift stream and found a good spot to wade across the icy water.
Her punishment for the previous night's little escapade had been five swift strokes with a cane, on her bottom.
All at once, Alex's flat hand had made one swift karate-chop to the side of the man's face, rendering him unconscious in seconds.
He glared up at the girl as he released her arm and moved away from the bed in a swift, fluid movement.
This was a unique terrain for warfare, where rapid advances and swift movements of armies were extremely difficult.
Lazarus managed to block a blade as swift as a darting snake, disengaged, and went into a series of jabs to ward away his enemy.
In a movement so swift that I hardly registered it until it was over, Andrei raised my hand to his lips and lightly kissed the back of it.
With a swift nod Hope accepted this as correct and began to help Faith once more.
If he hadn't made such a fuss about acceptable standards of behaviour, his fall from grace might not have been so swift and calamitous.
The brash but explosive back made life much easier for QB Jake Plummer, who acclimated to the Broncos' system in swift fashion.
The mood in security circles was one of watchfulness and preparation for swift but discreet action.
He was sure the cheerfulness would end when they got into combat, Swift had been a desk jobber until now, sorting Company papers.
Even the powerful moose knew to beware the swift javelins of avarii hunters.
You take swift decisions and make quick changes when situations are tense and demanding.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It was plain enough to my mind that a blue norther was breaking, with its swift drop in temperature and its possibly high wind.
Under great emotional excitement the auric flames move around in swift circling whirlpools, or else swirl away from a centre.
The reversals of fortune, O Cadi, are swift and grievous, and beyond the foreknowing or advertence of men.
Seizing in his hand his club of heavy knotted oak, he seeks with swift pace the aery mountain steep.
Even as she bowed, there came a swift realization that she was facing no anticlimax.
He flung a swift glance at the man as he realized that his observation was apposite.
Mel was an experienced jetmariner who had gone on the Swift expedition to aurum City, the underwater ruins of a lost civilization.
Blake on the wing has a strange beauty, a swift, direct and strenuous flight that thrills and awes the imaginative spectator.
One or two hurled their tomahawks, but Kiopo's movements were so bafflingly swift that it was like trying to wound the wind.
The bank swallow and chimney swift are smaller and less conspicuous than the martin, less noisy but quite as useful.
With swift intelligence, she felt him to be no more a boulevardier than she was light.
Barb, BRB, n. a swift kind of horse, the breed of which came from Barbary in North Africa.
In Brobdingnag Swift is generally said to be looking, as Scott expresses it, through the other end of the telescope.
Gazing, with a timid glance, On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse!
Was it some one who had watched the swift, sure-footed spring of a bushy-tailed squirrel from branch to branch?
The chimney swift is, properly speaking, not a swallow at all, though chimney swallow is its more popular name.
They call him the chimney swift, because he flies so fast, and you must always give him his right name.
A late writer in a newspaper tells a little story showing the affection of a chimney swift for her little one.
The chimney swift is often called the chimney swallow, but it is very easy to tell one from a swallow.
The eave swallow and barn swallow and the chimney swift all belie their names in the few wild haunts still uninvaded by man.
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