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Sentence Examples We swam for about an hour, using mainly the indoor pool and adjacent whirlpool. Cold, foamy water hushed over the rocks, and the gills of the fishes that swam in it caressed the rocks. In recent years, a manatee traveled to New York and another swam up the Mississippi River! One couple was shown exchanging vows submerged in an aquarium tank, diving bells over their heads, while tropical fish swam past. His vision swam and blurred in front of him, the land seeming to be covered in wet lumps all around him. The deep channel often had a strong current but we still persevered and swam out to the sandbanks to join the seals who basked there. After getting a few fish each, they swam in the pond before they went back to the beach to clean and gut the fish and prepare them for dinner. Mavis swam just below the surface, luring me to take a snapshot, beautiful in her deep, blue pool. The bell rang and she swam along with the current of the students rushing for the door. As we swam to the first buoy, we noticed strange shapes looming up at us from beneath the surface. She plopped the fish back in the clean water where they swam round and round, looking puzzled. In 1939 and 1940, Richard swam in the Aquacade at the New York Worlds Fair. I swam right through the rip currents and broke through the surface on the other side. I swam like mad towards the surface, harder than I've ever swum in my life, breathing the last of my air. Jemma, ten, and her cousin Danielle, 11, swam 50 lengths of the pool at Devizes Leisure Centre on Sunday. Easier to watch were the anhingas,who between long dives underwater swam with nothing but their snaky necks and heads above the water's surfaces. As I returned to the present moment, and Steve swam back into my field of vision, it occurred to me I must have forgotten to reset the alarm. When they reached the surface, they took deep breaths and swam for their boat. It also had an eight-lane pool were people swam laps and dove on the diving board. I dove in and swam a couple of laps before diving a few times off the diving board. Show More Sentences He swam 27 laps in a pool most mornings, because he liked to do things that were divisible by three. During her free period she ditched all her clubs and swam laps in the pool, she thought it would help clear her head but she didn't succeed. It seems that Rupert, typically fearless, ignored the warnings and swam when the red flags were up. Each child swam as many widths as they could during ten minutes set aside from a swimming lesson. She swam eastward a dozen strokes and stood shivering on the rocky bottom, waiting for Wolf to surface. He swam towards her and grabbed her little hand and began to swim with powerful strokes towards the shore. She swam the few strokes to the edge and clambered out, in a very bad mood. When we swam in our pool, Louis was conspicuous by the whiteness of his skin. They played and swam with the reckless abandon and joyfulness of three year olds. We spent our Waitangi Day yesterday sitting in the garden, and talking, and in the evening we had dinner on the beach and swam in the sea. But the manatees swam along the shore and the people followed the manatees all of the way down here. The fab Four swam up out of the developing bath, youngsters again on the verge of everything. The swimming instructor reminded the children to kick their legs as they swam. We hiked, swam, climbed, potholed, abseiled, ran, jumped, fell in, fell over and camped on most of Yorkshire, Cumbria and Northumberland during my time with the association. He swam, trying to maintain his position and get his bearings inside the hold, until something pressed against him and he felt himself sinking deeper. Am and Andy swam as fast as they could to the floating raft. My former colleague is now well into his 90s, but is as spry and fit as the day when he swam out to meet the submarine sent to take him back to his adoptive homeland. Brad Satchell, 44, said he was surfing off Scarborough Beach near the western city of Perth on Friday when the shark, probably a bronze whaler, swam up to him. Some snorkellers swam alongside a whale shark, while divers of one boat made their entry to find themselves among a welcoming committee of pilot whales. I ducked back under the water, spun, and swam a few strokes forward. Show More Sentences To prove my point, I slid under the water and swam a lap across the pool. I swam around in circles, unwilling to return to the shore, unable to surrender this state of aquatic, marine grace to the dull, leaden heaviness of dry land. She swam an impressive 20 lengths of the pool in 19 minutes and five seconds and presented Lydia with the money and a cute teddy bear, which Lydia christened Benjamin. Leviathans are one of the nastiest water animals that ever swam the seven seas, and I thought that a leviathan was scaring the fish away from something. We rode elephants, watched a rice farmer plant his crops, visited a rubber plantation, went golfing, swam in the ocean and ate delicious Thai food. We swam out and I managed to pull the boy out of the strong rip current. Women aged 50 years and older who gardened at least once per week had higher bone density readings than women who jogged, swam, walked, or performed aerobics. He and a fellow canoeist were found after the alarm was raised by another soldier who swam forty minutes to shore, and then ran two miles to raise the alarm. Life on board involved early-morning swims, leisurely breakfasts and then short passages between sheltered coves where we lunched and swam for several hours. She muttered to herself and swam slowly over to the wall control panel, tapping in the correct key code on the fluorescent buttons to make the water vanish. I swam towards Evans, but the hippo struck again, dragging me back under the surface. A picnic lunch was arranged on the beach under a manchineel tree and guest swam in the clear blue waters while John planted coconut trees along the shore. We never swam skinny in the river like the hippy kids on the farm across the railway tracks. However, because the sea was too rough the carpenter swam through the surf and planted the Dutch flag. Esther Williams swam in its aquacade, and Pan American China Clippers arrived and departed from docks jutting into San Francisco Bay. He pretended that an alligator was behind him and swam desperately. He passed one spot and then, laboriously, another, dog-paddling. In 1985, Humphrey swam into San Francisco Bay and then up the Sacramento River towards Rio Vista. In December 1883, a male humpback swam up the Firth of Tay in Scotland, past what was then the whaling port of Dundee. She was also an intrepid traveller and went to Antarctica aged 80 and swam in the Antarctic Ocean. Wearing a black wet suit, he swam among rockfish and sea bass and an occasional wolf eel living among the rocks. Show More Sentences Some wore woggles or armbands, others swam independently, and between them they notched up around 850 circuits of the swimming pool. Participants, starting at Balbriggan in North Dublin, swam in each of Ireland's 17 coastal counties. While snorkeling, the students explored sea caves, swam through kelp forests and photographed sea animals and plants. He was aiming to get into the school swimming team, and to that end he swam every evening. The RSPCA confirmed the calf swam away into deeper water but warned that refloated whales can become stranded again. However one day the shark swam into the river estuary to hunt, this angered the crocodile, who declared it his territory. Sleeping Bear Dunes is named after a Native American legend, where a female bear and her cub swam across Lake Michigan. Some 70 million years after this particular galeaspid swam the oceans, fish made another evolutionary leap when they took to life on land. They couldn't believe their eyes when the shark swam up as they pulled in their lobster pots. However, while Burgess swam breaststroke, she used crawl, and therefore had her goggles sealed with paraffin to render them water tight. At one point, he was arrested and imprisoned in Maxstoke Castle, but he escaped, swam the moat, and returned to Newbold Revel. Her record stood until Florence Chadwick swam the channel in 1950 in 13 hours and 20 minutes. If the otocysts were removed from these animals, they swam normally and no peculiarities were observed in their behavior. At least one division of auxiliary Batavian troops swam across the river as a separate force. The Hesperornithiformes were flightless, marine diving birds that swam like grebes. A DESPERATE bid to save Bobby the bottlenose whale began yesterday after he swam into the shallow waters of the Clyde. In Karachi, Pakistan, when we went to the public beach we swam in our shalwar kameez with a dupatta. Bottlenose dolphins herded the swimmers together and surrounded them for 40 minutes, preventing the shark from attacking, as they slowly swam to shore. In 2012, artist Robbie Wild Hudson swam the entire length of Ullswater. While Salsette was anchored awaiting Ottoman permission to dock at the city, on 3 May 1810 Byron and Lieutenant Ekenhead, of Salsette's Marines, swam the Hellespont. Show More Sentences An annual swim from New York City's Battery Park to Sandy Hook, New Jersey is called the Ederle Swim in memory of Gertrude Ederle, and follows the course she swam. On 25 August 1875, Webb swam from Dover to Calais in less than 22 hours. A solitary waterhen swam among the few remaining reeds and bulrushes. Morga swam for four hours, holding on to the Dutch standard, and made it to a small deserted island, where a few others of the ship's company also arrived. The shock of the water, of course, woke him, and he swam for quite a time. I swam to him underwater and pulled down his bathing trunks. The first recorded notable example of open water swimming took place on 3 May 1810 when Lord Byron swam from Europe to Asia across the Hellespont Strait. The year after that, he swam from Pulau Satang Besar to Damai Beach, some 15 nautical miles, and in 2008, from Pulau Satang Besar to Kampung Santubong, some 19 nautical miles. Examples from Classical Literature When carrying a spear gun or his camera, he also swam with arms hanging downward. Her pretty lips laughed as she swam towards him, the sole atom in an immensity of chrysoprase. A pioneer swam across, hauled over a cable, and made it fast to the hedge on the berm. It swam on the water, and dived, but it was slighted by every creature because of its ugliness. The grass was like an expanse of gold, and below her the valley swam in golden mist. With one accord they sprang overboard and swam for the nearest shore, that of the eyot. He swam with face mask under, breathing through his snorkel and letting the camera hang. A galley slave carried the noble lady on his shoulders as he swam to shore. After a moment, the gleaming hull of the Annabel swam into his field of view. The bonefish came back and swam all around my bait, apparently not noticing it. The tigers were exceedingly numerous on all the islands formed by the cut-offs, and swam without difficulty from one to another. His head swam, and a sickening sense of bafflement and incompetency came over him. He swam to the side, crawled up the acclivity, and returned to his village. No, grandad, for when we thought we had it sure, it jumped into the water and swam away. A second later his head showed glistening above the gray water, and he swam toward her with a slow, overhand stroke. They swam slowly around, looking for the grouper's hiding place and failed to locate it. For instance, there must have been a sonar unit near where we swam at St. Thomas. We swam off to these, and disported ourselves in the water after the manner of porpoises. Then, when we could see sufficiently, we swam to a shelving rock, and landed in safety. They speared a sea-lion, which, however, swam off with the spear sticking in its body. Show More Sentences She swam away in the bedlam of shrieks and clattering of dishes and knives. He took it up and tried to read, but the print swam into thin, black smudges. They seemed in no way afraid of the hippopotami, which they kept watching as they swam by. By the way, who was the fellow that swam the Hellespont for love of a young lady? Bridget Leonard, who works at Research by Design, swam the equivalent of the length of the English Channel at Harborne Leisure Centre. Then Gil swam slowly to meet the boat which had been sent to pick him up. Why, you swam that time, puffed betta to whom Nora had struggled. In spite of herself her senses swam in the rhythmic monotony. So he took a header from his bed into the water, and swam down the angle. It struck him head-on as he swam, and he went under the brown waters. The hours swam on unheeded, while they rested there face to face. The Sikh was to take hold a yard or two below him, and aid him as he swam. These all swam on in the same direction as the drift of the Gulf Stream. The snorkel emerged and she blew it clear, then swam to the beach. Hope said afterwards that she never swam with such delight as on that day. He swam part of the time and ran and barked on the towpath the other part. Bravely he descended, but this time he swam with his bolo in his hand. I boxed, swam, sailed, rode horses, lived in the open an arrantly healthful life, and passed life insurance examinations with flying colours. On placing him on the water he swam as buoyantly as his victims. Shawn swam around to the other side as Burney raised the fish. Show More Sentences Again she was besieged by eager questioners, and again she swam in sunset seas of glory. Why, our Will would tackle any conger as ever swam about a rock. They swam in the cretaceous interior sea of western North America. Victory, animated by a bravery no less ferocious than that of the dumb beast assailing us, swam straight for me. Cushing swam to the middle of the river, and headed down stream. One swam to a French pilot-boat, and the other to the deerhound. He adds that Audubon once swam across the Schuylkill with him on his back. I am no mortal, if the risky devils haven't swam down upon the very pitch, and, as bad luck would have it, they have hit the head of the island. Then he drew himself upon his plank and swam, doubling his speed. All about the air swam with pleasant, heated, drowsy, earthy odors. Then Shaggycoat swam a mile or so up-stream to look for elderberry wood. Tears swam into her eyes, and her lips trembled, turning defeat into victory, routing the all-potent Game with the strength of her weakness. His ears hummed and rang, and his brain swam as light as a feather. Like the Ichthyostegids, it probably swam by means of a fishlike tail. Rivers and streams that entered the main river he forded or swam. Without a command to do so, Boomer jumped into the water and swam to the ducks. Things swam blood before him, and he screamed aloud in his fury, lifting his victim and smashing his head upon the floor. The poverty-stricken street, the squalid mob round the door, swam before his eyes. As we swam smoothly along between the enchanting shores, we fell to swapping notes about manners and customs in Germany and elsewhere. As he swam, he extended the spear gun, aiming over the short barrel. Show More Sentences Swam until he was tired, and finally made a morsel for a fish. This gully was about a third of the way up the mountain, and it was filled to the brim with red-hot molten lava in which swam fire-serpents and poisonous salamanders. Tarzan dove into the water, and swam around the wreck to the lifeboat. Seconds earlier a crocodile had bitten another boy on the arm as he swam in the same water hole in Australia but the youngster, also aged 12, managed to escape. Not a bowl, not a tub, not a body of water where ancient, giant muskrats once swam among barnacled blue whales and the alien forethings of good rulemakers. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of swam? Words that rhyme with swam What is the adverb for swam? What is the adjective for swam? What is the noun for swam? Translations for swam Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words swallow-tailed swallowtail Swallows swallows swallowing swallowed swami swamis swamp Swamp swamped swamper 4-letter Words Starting With s sw swa