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    1. Cars swish water, treading heavily,


    2. As the cars swish by me, I sit and try to rationalise my insecurity


    3. German bullets dogged our footsteps there and we could hear the swish of them as they cut a swathe through the grass behind us


    4. A thin line of something rose just above the swish of the redirected flow


    5. And with a swish of her hand, the body was tossed out an open window


    6. With a swish of her arm, the device around


    7. The background swish of the still-rushing water seemed to add emphasis to their hurried activity as all but a stubborn few joined the Exodus


    8. The swish of a light breeze as it blew around the tent was all that he heard


    9. the swish and clatter of the sailing, but the more I listened, the


    10. Whilst a confused Bryony clambered to a standing position, Captain Rathbone freed Zach with a similar swish of the scythe

    11. A slight swish announced a spear that buried itself in its neck


    12. I swish the curtains closed, not wanting to see what I know is coming


    13. Neither victim nor abductors were aware of his presence until the soft swish of the dust about his feet brought them about, and then he was almost upon them, coming with the gusty fury of a hill wind


    14. Now in utter blackness he heard a sound ahead of him—the shuffle of bare feet, or the swish of loose garments against stone, he could not tell which


    15. In the moment that he stood staring in morbid fascination, the only sound was the thud and swish of the snake's tail against the stones


    16. In winter, the crisp mountain air echoes with the swish of skis and the laughter of happy people


    17. But suddenly there was the metal swish of the Araknu’s wrist blade and the loud thump it made when it pierced the giant’s body


    18. A quick swish of minty mouthwash and she scampered downstairs, letting her nose be her guide


    19. The tide had turned and the sea smells and the swish of the receding waves on the darkened foreshore brought back memories of swimming and picnicking and sailing on the bay, throwing out bait for pollock and mackerel


    20. Who was it? A shadowy figure moved to one side of her and a swish of opening curtains let in a shaft of sunlight instantly blasting the room with light

    21. By the second or third swish, it had


    22. The silence was eventually broken by the swish of a closing door


    23. With a swish of her tail she climbed the nearest tree and stretched out on a


    24. He broke away from his clan with a swish of his wings


    25. per day and were instructed to swish it in their mouth for 30 to 60 seconds and then spit


    26. She could hear the wind in the sails and the swish of water against the sides


    27. The rattle of an ice-filled cooler, the slap of boots on concrete, and the swish of heavy fabric behind him, and Cap’n had cut off Greg’s path


    28. was a swish and a shudder, and then Tommy was standing,


    29. The razor-ax went swish, but O’Brien had jumped back just before it arrived


    30. Who'd have thought that seemingly dedicated bachelor would appreciate that most women would mind? Perhaps there was more to this psychology lark than he'd thought? It had been a very swish do, by all accounts, probably looked forward to for weeks; he vividly remembered his late wife, Angie's reaction when he had had to leave her at some social function or other

    31. look, turned with a swish and moved back in the direc-


    32. A swish nearby was followed by a dull thud, the impact of


    33. When we drove up to her domestic in the swish community, her mother was waiting with a hug and by the time I left I was fat with milk and cookies, just like when we were four and five


    34. My father’s quick advance had closed the distance between him and the cat, and with one smooth overhand swish of the blade the big cat’s head went rolling into the underbrush, as its body fell lifeless at my father’s feet


    35. Out of breath I rolled away hearing the swish of sword blades behind me


    36. Suddenly the happy yelping stopped and the cinema was filled with screams and howls, interspersed with manic laughter and the swish and sickening crunch of the axe


    37. So many fears and I tried to swish them all away, as they were trying to spoil one of the greatest moments of my life


    38. Martin pitched the empty beer bottle into the darkness, and it landed with a soft swish of prairie grass


    39. Elon crumpled the paper up into a ball and tossed it across the shop to land with a swish into a trashcan


    40. There was a swish of sound and the chamber lit up with a jeweled array of color, as light tunnels from the surface reflected down light that was refracted by the use of crystals into a glittering intensity of color that swept throughout the entrance of the Queens’ Haven

    41. She stepped down onto the deck netting and the whale drew back as graceful and as calculated as the swish of a cat’s tail


    42. the swish of her robes as she walked


    43. few elongated moments before it leapt to instant life and in a wild frenzied swish and


    44. Suddenly I heard a swish from


    45. Another swish of the knife came perilously close to his chest but Marraud jerked his body to avoid it and rolled onto the floor


    46. Swish! went the stone


    47. Swish and soft flop her stays made on the bed


    48. She did not toss her hair so gaily, nor walk with that swish of her hips, and the waterfall tinkle of her laughter was not heard so often


    49. The air filled with the awful noise of battle: the swish of deadly arrows, the curses of wounded men, the screams of horses in agony


    50. It was not unlike the noise of battle, but without the swish of deadly arrows or the screams of maimed horses























    1. Kevin swished the sushi around in his dish


    2. the back lane, heading for the main road, whistling Greensleeves as he swished the


    3. thrown her way, as she pricked up her ears and swished


    4. Tzgarr’s eyes narrowed and he swished his wings


    5. When activated the device emitted a gentle maroon glow and heat he felt as it swished over his face


    6. ' She swished past him out of the room and ran upstairs


    7. As it swished the water, he saw two arms, curiously naked-looking


    8. And then she swished away, back to her duties


    9. “Congratulations, Andrew, you’re instructor number three,” I yelled over the prop noise as we swished over the boundary fence


    10. As the flap of the tent swished closed behind his sorry ass, Howard-Smythe turned aside from the tele-printer machine

    11. As it swished through the air, Bear turned around to the sound


    12. ‘You could start a war with all this,’ said John, picking out a slim sword and swished it through the air


    13. The large stallion tilted back his ears and swished his tail in nervousness when she with her hand on his nose led him into the room


    14. Every footstep that swished over the looseness of a sand-covered rock on the way down to the


    15. The heavy blade swished through the darkness, hitting nothing


    16. swished through the corridor, curling off the wood paneling,


    17. As Jasper swished his tail and gave me his low whinny, he moved his head up and down as though nodding, yes


    18. The mighty fish swished its tail, jerking Pascal forward


    19. She got up and swished her mouth out in the sink


    20. Its white-tipped red tail slowly swished back and forth

    21. Bryony squealed a warning, but the Captain had already reacted, ducking low so that the curved blade swished harmlessly over his shoulders


    22. Spears bent on his armor or swished empty air, and his sword sang its death-song


    23. As they swept past the black mouth of a gorge that opened into the Pass, a javelin swished through the air and thudded home behind the stallion's straining shoulder


    24. "Dog of hell!" Her blade swished as it cut the air in an upswinging arc with a blur in the middle, and the headless body slumped down, spurting blood


    25. His long tail swished from side to side in anticipation of the


    26. Trapping a piece of ice with his tongue the surgeon swished it around his mouth before dropping it back into the glass


    27. After some more chit-chat, Jeremy got off at his floor and the doors swished shut again


    28. Angela strode into the house with her face tight and stern as she swished past the three men sitting at her kitchen table


    29. He swished his pony tail


    30. He swished it through the air a couple of times, being careful not to whack Sharpie, and then he grabbed the end of it, and bent it feeling for flexibility and strength

    31. swished past his teeth and refreshed his weary soul


    32. The volunteers in the study swished 15 ml of the


    33. This herbal preparation should be swished slowly in the mouth before spitting


    34. She swished her skirt as she skipped around the wheel-crushed carcass of one of the town’s proliferation of pigeons


    35. His tail swished back and forth slowly, content to mark the moment in time of a timeless


    36. " Liam breathed as he swished ahead of


    37. " He swished for a couple of steps


    38. Hal lifted his tail and swished it through the air


    39. Jack swished the baby around in the water and washed off the clear jelly-goop covering its body


    40. The ankle restraints swished along the floor with his every step

    41. The limousine swished through the two stone gate posts at the entrance to the grounds of


    42. Her tail swished as they landed


    43. As it swished past overhead, Fred felt the grip on his shoulder suddenly loosen completely, and as he half turned round he saw the tall guy taken aback in amazement and the stout fellow almost crouching, pointing his gun up into the air with an expression of utter bewilderment


    44. Taxis and buses swished and squelched their way along the black road surfaces and lights began to appear behind windows, returning the drenched city to life


    45. The doors swished shut and the driver flipped the coughing vehicle into first gear and lurched back onto the double lane road


    46. You are the best! rasped Tina as the Mercedes swished along the macadamised road surface


    47. Zygmunt then held up a small loop of wire for the audience to see before he swished it into a dish of soapy water


    48. He swished the wire loop into the soap dish once again and then held it in front of the nozzle of his can of gas


    49. The ultra violet light picked up the white shirts and lace on the tops as it swished around the room, whilst any guys


    50. balcony door and swished the curtain, Gird laughing hard, but



















    1. Something swishes past me, making me jump … what was that? Another one … close enough for me to see it is a small pointed thing a bit like an arrowhead


    2. She hugs Becky, and then quickly swishes Rico’s hair


    3. Cass pulls the hot mug from his mouth to tell Frenchy thanks for the welcomed news, but in his hurry he swishes hot coffee over the sides, and on to his shirt


    4. She swishes the cane


    5. Air swishes around the cavern as eighty-eight pairs of wings unfold like a complicated puzzle


    6. The compartment settles and the door swishes open


    7. When she runs a hand over her perfect (straight, not one ounce of curl) red hair in its perfect high ponytail that swishes her waist as she moves, I catch a quick flash of silver and gold at her wrist, the only adornment she wears


    1. He also thought that he caught the sound of something swishing rhythmically amongst


    2. of two very furry ears and the tip of gently swishing tail


    3. I could almost hear the shit swishing in


    4. A strange, purple-skinned, one-eyed monster stood at the front of a podium, his many tentacles swishing and swinging and hanging around


    5. again, swishing her tail happily and braying contentedly


    6. ” He paused and looked at his drink, swishing it around


    7. The German machine guns scythed through our wave as though they were cutting hay and the swishing sound they made reminded me of this


    8. He watched fascinated as she tore bread apart in her teeth, her shoulder length brunette hair swishing freely in counter-action


    9. While swishing past lumbering trucks, Leon improved the story, himself more the victim with each rehearsal


    10. Gently touching his upper arm, she turned and left him standing there, swishing out the rear door again

    11. Once they closed the distance, I felt the Dark Talon roar out of its low-power mode and the swishing sound of two antimatter missiles launching


    12. Vic was swishing bourbon around his mouth and nodded back at him


    13. Within minutes, they were driving through a downpour with windshield wipers swishing at their highest speed


    14. He came prowling out after me, grinning, his tail swishing


    15. Now she stood facing back, swishing her tail, ready for action


    16. A mist engulfed the fox and a beautiful young lady emerged, scantily dressed her jaw-dropping figure brushed past the trapped lad, her raven black hair swishing into his face


    17. There was a swishing sound, and Bryony saw three pointy missiles zooming through the air towards her


    18. Eventually he spotted a bushy fox tail, swishing a signal at the edge of the field


    19. Edwin was going to point out that he was in fact a chicken, but then heard a swishing noise close by


    20. Bessie was swimming happily around, swishing his serpent tail and poking his head out the sides and bottom of the sphere

    21. At that moment, I heard the swishing sound of the


    22. Bera sleep-stands next to me, her swishing tail an added protection from the blasted things


    23. This time there was no answer—only a period of breathless silence in which the pound of Balthus' heart strangled him; and then there sounded a swishing outside the gate, a dry rustling that sent chills down Balthus' spine


    24. They were standing on the trees hipshot, dozing and swishing their tails idly at the flies


    25. The small waves made gently swishing noises as they broke on the beach and the first signs of a beautiful starlit night were in the sky


    26. It was just a deep sea of swishing plants that whispered and kept swinging


    27. The next moment, I was up in the air, swishing above the fire and


    28. ” With his legs rubbing together making a swishing sound as he walked, the thick man shifted around the counter


    29. mixed with a kind swishing vibration that was all around


    30. Prepare 4 individual soufflé cups by buttering the bottoms and sides, then swishing 1 teaspoon granulated sugar into each

    31. the ocean and managed to reach the meadow after penetrating the forest, swishing through the pine needles with a soothing sound and gently brushing the faces of the lone riders


    32. " were the first words out of his mouth when the swishing sound made Gerald pop his eyes open


    33. The other man leaned back and you could almost hear him swishing the observation around in his head like wine in a glass


    34. Now out of time to pick up her nagemaki or even to draw her own sword, Jenny blocked the blade swishing down at her head with her crossed pistols


    35. Fired at their maximum effective range, ten arrows then flew out with swishing noises


    36. gentle swishing sound of the surf on the shore made a very relaxing sound


    37. swishing with confusion as they tried to fathom out what had just happened


    38. Lifting his wineskin, he emptied the contents, swishing adleberry around in his mouth


    39. Chait sat at the top step, swishing his tail back and forth anxiously


    40. The Grand Wizard heard his pipe swishing through the air

    41. He swang it through the air, reassured at the pleasing swishing noise it


    42. Dog-lovers? Hand me a scalpel and turn me loose on all who practice this barbarism and I’ll barber their behinds and ear lobes and see how they like it, fierce-looking or not! What the blankety-blank do all these puppy butchers need scary-looking dogs for, anyway? A beast with sharp teeth and powerful jaws and a built-in stupid loyalty to his or her “owner” can chase away or disable any bad guy just as easily with full-flopped ears and swishing tail as with stubs


    43. Before Colbert can finish the sentence, the cat launches itself out of his arms and walks over in Loki’s direction, tail swishing madly back and forth


    44. He could see nothing and was afraid that he might fall into a fit of sneezing amidst this sea of fur, but as he urged the pack forward he could hear the frustrated chuffing and gruffing of the boxers and the muffled swishing and whuffing of their gloves as they jabbed and punched and hooked with apparent determination, but they remained unable to effectively penetrate the plodding mass of hair


    45. The babble of voices filled the air as Dewey stamped around in his usual restless way, turning in circles and swishing his tail


    46. inside watching all a while through the swishing wiper blades


    47. Casey heard a swishing sound before the door opened, and soft light crept through the cracks


    48. and a bright-bladed knife swishing past her face, burying itself in her husband


    49. He saw the ground swishing past under him, and he saw the hooves flying over sand and stones


    50. She took her time with the second bar, sucking the brown mass from between her teeth and swishing it around her cheeks to savour the taste as much as she could



































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    Synonyms for "swish"

    swish lap swoosh swosh classy posh whisper rustle hiss whiz sigh whistle

    "swish" definitions

    a brushing or rustling sound


    move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound


    elegant and fashionable