SWIFT in a Sentence

Learn SWIFT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

230 example sentences for SWIFT, such as:

1. Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
2. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
3. He rose to his feet in one swift movement.
4. A hot swift current was running through her.
5. The White House was swift to deny the rumours.

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 Meanings and Examples of SWIFT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
swift
 a.  quick; moving or capable of moving with great speed
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  As soon as she was beneath the gnarled arms of the cedars, she knew she was safe from observation from the house and she slowed her swift pace.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  Ellen had never told her that desire and attainment were two different matters; life had not taught her that the race was not to the swift.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  Charles gave a swift look about him, drew in his breath, stiffened the muscles of his stomach.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  A hot swift current was running through her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  They fell on unhearing ears, words that were swift and tender and full of pity, like a father speaking to a hurt child.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  "You little fool," and his voice was swift and rough.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
7  For a swift instant there went through her memory again the horrors of her last night in Atlanta, the ruined homes that dotted the countryside, all the stories of rape and torture and murder.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  There was a curious low roaring sound in her ears as of sea shells held against them and through the sound she dimly heard the swift thudding of her heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
9  She could feel swift anger stir, even at this late date, as she thought of that night but she subdued it and tossed her head until the earrings danced.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  Above their heads a flock of chimney swallows whirled suddenly on swift wings and now and then a rabbit scurried startled across the road, his white tail bobbing like an eiderdown powder puff.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
11  He was swift to see it and his face changed to gentleness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
12  There was a swift pattering of feet racing up the hall from the kitchen and Melanie burst into the room, her eyes wide with alarm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
13  Scarlett saw Archie's hand make a swift move toward his pistol and then stop.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
14  With a sudden swift movement the man's hand was on the horse's bridle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
15  He drew a swift breath and with an effort wiped from his eyes the eagerness her words had brought, an eagerness which she was too confused to see.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  The local police took swift action against the squatters.
2  Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
3  The White House was swift to deny the rumours.
4  Our task is to challenge the UN to make a swift decision.
5  Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
6  He rose to his feet in one swift movement.
7  The Inter player was swift to respond with a counter-attack.
8  The operation is being seen as a swift riposte to the killing of a senior army commander.
9  The current was so swift, and then I got into the dead water and landed on the side towards the Illinois shore.
10  Commission says it supports the swift progress on the reform agenda.
11  I thought the swift darting beam was a herald of some coming vision from another world.
12  But then, prepared as my mind was for horror, shaken as my nerves were by agitation, I thought the swift darting beam was a vision from another world.
13  Silent in bare feet, he swiftly crossed the cold marble floor, sliding into bed just as the door creaked open.
14  His comeback appearances with other clubs were swiftly curtailed by his drinking, which continued after his second wife left him and after his liver transplant.
15  If Ralph drops his second tray of drinks this week, the manager swiftly would relegate him to a minor post cleaning up behind the bar.