swoop
/ˈswuːp/ noun C2- An instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward. · The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. – Sun Tzu
- A sudden act of seizing.
- A quick passage from one note to the next.
- A group of swallows or other birds.
Plural swoops
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Don’t you think it would be nice to wake up at sunrise and swoop down over the water and away out over that lovely blue all day; and then at night to fly back to one’s nest?
Lynde’s garden and set the flowers dancing--and then I’ll go with one great swoop over the clover field--and then I’ll blow over the Lake of Shining Waters and ripple it all up into little sparkling waves.
The swoop of bats in the darkness over her was as the wings of unearthly creatures.
Matthew was covered with confusion at finding her there at all; and those bangles completely wrecked his wits at one fell swoop.
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