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.
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.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SWIM
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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."
2 He was polite to poor Maud when they all went down to the cottages for a swim.
3 Maud, it seemed, was slightly dizzy from the swim.
4 The hated whale has the round watery world to swim in, as the small gold-fish has its glassy globe.
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.
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.
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.
8 After my swim, while I was playing about indolently in the water, I heard the sound of hoofs and wheels on the bridge.
9 Edna had attempted all summer to learn to swim.
10 She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.
11 Though no fish, 'The Long Rifle' can swim.
12 They took a swim about every hour, so it was close upon the middle of the afternoon when they got back to camp.
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.
14 We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness.
15 Den I was gwyne to swim to de raf agin when dey was gone.
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.