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• The general opted for a swift retreat because he saw his troops were vastly outnumbered.From the entry retreat
• The honeymoon period came to a swift end when the legislation was introduced.From the entry honeymoon
• It was a swift, one-sided fight, all over in the second round.From the entry one-sided
• I doubled him up with a swift punch to the stomach.From the entry double up
• How'd you like a nice swift kick?From the entry how'd
• A girl's best weapon — and one that should be used sparingly — is a swift kick where it counts.From the entry where it counts
• Swift that most recently flooded the digisphere thanks to her announcement, on the podcast Mr.2025 August 27, Vanessa Friedman, “The Ralph Lauren Look of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Engagement Photos”, in The New York Times, New…. From the entry digisphere
• The BBC is seeking a swift resolution after Twitter branded it as “government funded media.”2023 April 9, Sophie Tanno, “Twitter brands BBC a ‘government funded media’ organization”, in CNN. From the entry BBC
• Even a moment’s hesitation could be punished by a swift but painful death beneath the bicorns’ hooves.2022, Hisaya Amagishi, translated by Nikolas Stirling, Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools, volume 3, J-Novel Club…. From the entry bicorn
• SWIFT was an apronym, an acronym that spelt a contextually meaningful word.2020, Nikesh Lalchandani, Payments and Banking in Australia. From the entry apronym
• Two swift cuts, high on the inner thighs: the femoral arteries gone to fountains of red.2019, Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire, Tor, page 436. From the entry femoral artery
• She preferred a swift smack on the hinnerdale with the spatula.2019 June 25, Jennifer Beckstrand, Andrew, Zebra Books, →ISBN. From the entry hinnerdale
• He'd thought it through and decided that he needed a swift reaction team to outsnatch the snatchers.2016, Allan Graybyrd, Masi'shen Stranded. From the entry snatcher
• Gorgoepekoos does mean 'swift in hearing and responding', but it means it embodiedly.2012, Frederic Will, The Knife in the Stone: Essays in Literary Theory, →ISBN, page 126. From the entry embodiedly
• SOTS scrum-half Jood pounced and began his pass, but swift as he was, Thorn Thompson was swifter.2004, Pat Stevens, Politics Is the Greatest Game: A Johannesburg Liberal Lampoon, →ISBN. From the entry eighthman
• The quintet in Propheticape muses out-of-measured-time until Holland leads it into swift, riding jazz.2000, Max Harrison, Charles Fox, Eric Thacker, The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to postmodernism, page 238. From the entry ride
• Red cholic makes them thin, though eating much, swift, bold, wrathful, agile.1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000…. From the entry red cholic
• Larger than the Falkland Fritillary and has a much swifter zig-zag flight.1992, Ian Strange, A Field Guide to the Wildlife of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 159. From the entry Falklands fritillary
• The reaction of Fort Lauderdale's previously unpoliticized gay community was swift.1976 December 25, “'Creeping Gay-ism' Stirs Lauderdale”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 11. From the entry unpoliticized
• Small streams are usually swift; large streams tend to be slower and often have deep, pondlike areas.1974, Samuel Eddy, James Campbell Underhill, Northern Fishes, →ISBN, page 49. From the entry pondlike
• He made immediately for the window and pulled the curtains together with a swift furtive twitch.1973, John Broderick, An apology for roses, Calder Publications Limited. From the entry bawneen
• Swift and Wilson are both attacking the problem of commodity meat head on.1966, United States Senate Select Committee on Small Business, Expansion of Exports, page 342. From the entry commodity meat
• Her unhappy position is complicated still further when two murders are committed in swift succession.”1947, Dorothy E. Cook, Estelle A. Fidell, editors, Fiction Catalog: 1942-1946 Supplement to the 1941 Edition: A Subject, Author and Title…. From the entry adventureress
• Bradly collected Pippies; their trick vanishing was not too swift for his unhandy clutches.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 177. From the entry unhandy
• A mile further along he passes us, the horse, archnecked, reined back to a swift singlefoot.1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, published 1985, page 69. From the entry singlefoot
• Swift, rhythmic movement, unbroken and unjostled, told her how well they were dancing.1916, Dorothy Richardson, Backwater. From the entry unjostled
• He is swift as the wind, untiring, and is kind to his friends.1913 July 1, L[yman] Frank Baum, “Scraps and the Scarecrow”, in The Patchwork Girl of Oz, Chicago, Ill.: The Reilly & Lee Co., →OCLC, page…. From the entry untiring
• Yet there is relatively little of this swift and confident style.1913, Carl Henry Grabo, The Art of the Short Story, C. Scribner's Sons, pages 230-231. From the entry overcompression
• Its flight is fairly swift, and at times very darting or jerky.1905, Joseph Isaac Spadafora Whitaker, The Birds of Tunisia, page 221. From the entry darting
• Swift was among those upstanding for Dion when she walked on stage and singing to Dion's hit The Power of Love.2024 February 4, “Celine Dion makes surprise appearance at Grammy awards”, in bbc.com. From the entry upstanding
• Give me a swift death, she thought — a hammer blow to the head, the sudden aneurism, the proverbial bus.2024, Kate Atkinson, Death at the Sign of the Rook, Doubleday, page 263. From the entry aneurism
• Swift is many things onstage—vulnerable and triumphant, playful and sad—but the intimacy of her songcraft is front and center.2023 December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, in Time, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2023. From the entry front and center
• Following service in the First World War, when it was leased by the Admiralty, it suffered a swift decline.2020 October 21, Dr Joseph Brennan, “From the main line and over the waves”, in Rail, page 59. From the entry seaward
• Two snatch thieves who snatched a woman's bag experienced swift karma when their victim accidentally rammed into their motorcycle.2016 December 29, M. Kumar, “Snatch thieves accidentally rammed by victim”, in The Star, Malaysia. From the entry ram

Meaning of swift

1. adjective Fast; quick; rapid.
2. adjective Capable of moving at high speeds.
3. adjective Quick-thinking; bright.

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How do you use swift in a sentence?

Swift is used as an adjective, adverb and noun. For example: “The river’s swift current carried the boat downstream.”

What is a short sentence with swift?

“How'd you like a nice swift kick?”

What does swift mean?

Swift means fast; quick; rapid.