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How to use swot in a sentence

11 example sentences · verb, noun

Swot means to study with effort or determination. Example: “Are you going to swot at it all the evening?”

Examples of swot by meaning

verbTo study with effort or determination.

  • Are you going to swot at it all the evening?

nounOne who swots; a boffin, nerd, or smart aleck.

  • Especially Sampson, who was too much of a grammar-school-type swot ever to be quite the thing.1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 23
  • The left is the organised swot who likes bright light, keeps his bedroom tidy and can tolerate sums.2006 April 18, Philip Beadle, “Mind maps: rubbish in theory, but handy in practice”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  • On first listen, Americans of a certain vintage would call one a Poindexter, while older Brits would regard the other as a swot.2023 August 8, Janan Ganesh, “The oneness of Ron DeSantis and Rishi Sunak”, in Financial Times

nounWork.

  • All I want is — guerre fini, soldat fini; and to go home without burden of any thought save music, and hard swot for a time.Quoted in 1983, Ivor Gurney, Robert Kelsey Rought Thornton, War Letters: A Selection (page 254)

More sentences with swot

  • The teacher analogised swotting for an exam in terms of marathon training.From the entry analogize
  • You should swot up on your French before travelling to Paris.From the entry swot up on
  • So I went to technical college for several months to swot up on navigation for the exam.2004, Robert Carter, Windjammers, page 77. From the entry swot up on
  • And while his fellow musicians spent their evenings smoking marijuana, Alan Greenspan busied himself by swotting up on economics and doing the band's accounts.2026 June 22, Sam Woodhouse, “Alan Greenspan, architect of the modern American economy, dies aged 100”, in BBC News. From the entry busy
  • The bright, unsporting boy is labelled a swot, geek or nerd, the artist any other term that throws his masculinity into doubt.2011, Brent D. Taylor, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires. From the entry unsporting
  • I reminded her that it was the September holidays, and after that I was off on swot vac until the exams started.2004, Joanne Horniman, Secret Scribbled Notebooks,, Allen & Unwin, page 28. From the entry swot vac

Meaning of swot

  1. verb To study with effort or determination.
  2. noun One who swots; a boffin, nerd, or smart aleck.
  3. noun Work.

Full definition of swot

Questions about swot in a sentence

How do you use swot in a sentence?
Swot is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Are you going to swot at it all the evening?”
What is a short sentence with swot?
“Are you going to swot at it all the evening?”
What does swot mean?
Swot means to study with effort or determination.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: swot (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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