SWIM in a Sentence

Learn SWIM 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.
149 example sentences for SWIM, such as:
1. The best fish swim near the bottom.
2. It is dangerous to swim beyond this mark.
3. Though no fish, 'The Long Rifle' can swim.
4. Edna had attempted all summer to learn to swim.
5. He must needs swim that is held up by the chin.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SWIM
swim
 v.  be covered with or submerged in a liquid
 v.  travel through water
Classic Sentence: (89 in 6 pages)
1  It restored his soul to have Sam Clark trustingly bellow, "Better come down to the lake this evening and have a swim, doc."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
2  He was polite to poor Maud when they all went down to the cottages for a swim.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
3  Maud, it seemed, was slightly dizzy from the swim.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
4  The hated whale has the round watery world to swim in, as the small gold-fish has its glassy globe.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38. Dusk.
5  We'll drink to-night with hearts as light, To love, as gay and fleeting As bubbles that swim, on the beaker's brim, And break on the lips while meeting.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 39. First Night Watch.
6  But strike a member of the harem school, and her companions swim around her with every token of concern, sometimes lingering so near her and so long, as themselves to fall a prey.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters.
7  Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.
8  After my swim, while I was playing about indolently in the water, I heard the sound of hoofs and wheels on the bridge.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
9  Edna had attempted all summer to learn to swim.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In X
10  She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In X
11  Though no fish, 'The Long Rifle' can swim.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
12  They took a swim about every hour, so it was close upon the middle of the afternoon when they got back to camp.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
13  Before the depth reached his middle he was halfway over; the current would permit no more wading, now, so he struck out confidently to swim the remaining hundred yards.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII.
15  Den I was gwyne to swim to de raf agin when dey was gone.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI.
Example Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1  Erna Hart is going to swim across the English Channel tomorrow.
2  One afternoon, she went for a swim in the ocean.
3  They had just had enough time to swim out of danger when the boat again completed a circle.
4  Meanwhile, they should encourage those among us who cannot swim five yards before they are gasping for air.
5  It's easy to swim if another holds up your head.
6  He must needs swim that is held up by the chin.
7  Some people like to strip themselves naked while they have a swim in a secluded place.
8  The river was too wide to swim across comfortably.
9  In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.
10  The best fish swim near the bottom.
11  It is dangerous to swim beyond this mark.
12  She has always been encouraged to swim to build up the strength of her muscles.
13  Don't want to swim and do not want to carry out an order.
14  The swim coach warrants the children from drowning.
15  Anna couldn't swim and was left floundering about in the deep end of the swimming-pool.