228 examples of swishes in sentences

The ship veered crazily; and at the some moment, Frank, who was standing where Jack had been a moment before, heard something swish past.

I could not remember, and while my mind was still wrestling with the question in a helpless, flabby way, I heard the swish of skirts at the door, and there entered who but Dorothy!

A fly of exceptional vigor assaulted Julius Caesar upon the flank, and his tail not whisking as well as usual, because of the incumbrance, he missed the enemy at the first swish and moved uneasily forward for several feet.

Fountains played in the spacious halls; the courts were inlaid with mosaic; there were festooned partitions and a great profusion of architectural fancies; and everywhere reigned a silence so deep that the swish of a sash or the echo of a sigh could be distinctly heard.

He heard no sound for at least a minute after Jack and Jake had left, then he heard a soft swish, and a few stars which had been visible through the upper half of the window were blotted out.

With hair half combed, with skirts awry, and reddened hands, she talked loud as she washed the floor with great swishes of water.

And at that he stopped short and suddenly wheeled round as he caught the swish of a dress on the stairs.

Andy believed that the wheels below must have actually brushed through the foliage, for he always declared that he heard a fierce "swish" as they passed.

The sound of distant music floated far down upon the air, mingled with the swish of steady oars and laughter and happy voices as the occupants of the various boats called out merrily to each other across the water, or here and there broke into light-hearted song.

Beginning with a slow steady stroke the coolies gradually increase the pace, shouting out a hoarse wild song at intervals; till, what with the swish and splash of the falling water, the measured beat of the furrovahs or beating rods, and the yells and cries with which they excite each other, the noise is almost deafening.

" For the space of a minute it was still in the consultery, save for the soft swish of the leaves overhead and roundabout.

I felt the ship stagger as if a whale had struck her, and heard a roar and a swish behind me, and looked backjust in time to see mizen, and poop, and all the poor women and children in it, go bodily, as if they had been shaved off with a knife.

The squirrel hops two feet at a time, often leaving a slight ruffle on the snow as he swishes his tail.

The next instant, with a nerve-breaking swish, the shining blade fell!

"I'll tell you young ruffians what I think of you and what" Swish!

She gave him not so much as a toss of the head or a swish of the tail but kept her gaze on the far Western mountains for she was still sick with the scent of blood; and she maintained a purposeful, steady, lope.

Through the open port-hole there came to her the swish of water, and she heard the throb and roar of the engines like the sound of a distant train in a tunnel.

She may well have been proud of the quite perceptible waves that she sent rolling to the shore and of the quite audible swish that they made on the beach.

The swish of the curtain.

The swish of the curtain.

"Swish your pans so they can hear the oats," whispered Bill.

The pain inflicted was not great, and Duncan and Llewellyn, who had got into similar trouble before, cared very little for it, and went out laughing to tell the number of swishes they had received, to a little crowd of boys who were lingering outside the library door.

Then more swishes.

It was in the swish of every silk petticoat.

He heard the rush and swish of water, water torrential that fell in a streaming mass, and as his understanding came staggering back he knew that the first, most menacing danger was past.

228 examples of  swishes  in sentences