How to Use swinging in a Sentence

swinging

adjective

• This music is really swinging.
• Posey got hits in his first three at-bats, the first of which was a swinging bunt that got the Giants on the board.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 May 2021
• Leury García hit a swinging bunt between the mound and plate.
  — Lamond Pope, chicagotribune.com, 25 July 2021
• It is met by the wildly swinging boot of Iniesta and ends up nestling in the top corner.
  — SI.com, 7 Oct. 2019
• All 10 of Burnes' strikeouts during his streak came on a swinging strike three.
  — Matt Carlson, ajc, 12 Aug. 2021
• Daza’s third hit of the game that found a hole in the fifth was followed by a Brendan Rodgers’ equivalent of a swinging bunt.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2022
• His swinging strike percentage is up quite a bit more, to 23.9%.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2020
• The swinging gate to the trail had a padlock on it -- for which the key had been left at the camp office about 1⁄4 mile in the other direction.
  — Arkansas Online, 13 May 2021
• There, a modern lock code opened the swinging cellar doors, and the two descended a flight of concrete steps to the bunker.
  — Aaron Goldfarb New York Times, Star Tribune, 6 Oct. 2020
• With a 2-2 count and the bases loaded, Bradford’s final pitch blew by a swinging Sawyer Solitaria.
  — Matt Goul, cleveland, 3 June 2022
• For every worker, put up four walls, put a desk and chair inside, and at the entrance have a swinging door that can be closed.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 1 May 2020
• The second out came on a force play at the plate before Wagner ended the game with a curveball in the dirt for a swinging strike three.
  — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 26 May 2022
• Holly Rowe sat in a doctor’s office five years ago and heard the news that hit her like a swinging 36-ounce Marucci.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Oct. 2021
• Bassitt’s next pitch was a flatter breaking ball at 71 mph that induced a swinging third strike.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2021
• Schoop fouled off five pitches before Irvin threw a 93 mph fastball past him for a swinging third strike.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2021
• Bray reached base all seven times in the two games with a pair of singles, a hit by pitch, a walk, two errors and a swinging third strike that got past the catcher.
  — Bill Lumpkin Iii, al, 14 May 2021
• As everyone in the Cubs dugout lined up against the railing for a front-row view, Castillo struck out a swinging Robertson on a full count.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2022
• The butcher, if there is one, hides back of a swinging door and leaves you all alone with your cellophaned hamburger.
  — Celestine Sibley, ajc, 30 Nov. 2021
• While a permanent home is being built for them, the swinging two-year old jungle playmates had nowhere to go.
  — NOLA.com, 4 Nov. 2020
• On the front lawn, a twin Uncle Sam reclines on 1776 pillows, propped on a green, swinging porch bench suspended from a tree.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 4 July 2022
• When a catcher doesn’t cleanly catch a swinging third strike at the plate, the runner has the opportunity to take first base.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 5 May 2021
• Hosmer went down on six pitches, retired on a swinging strike.
  — CBS News, 12 Sep. 2021
• The most up-tempo track on the album coasts on squiggly synthesizers and a swinging rhythm.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2022
• One afternoon, Sue snapped a picture of them in a swinging double chair that staff had pulled into the sunlight.
  — Robin Erb, Detroit Free Press, 23 Nov. 2020
• Poirot first encounters the three points of the fateful romantic triangle at the heart of this tale in a swinging London speakeasy in 1937.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2022
• The momentum of the swinging bells—the heaviest weighs over three tons—means that their timing can only be changed slightly in each round.
  — Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
• Unruh decided to buy it, restore it, and turn it into a swinging spot.
  — Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2022
• Here is a plot of the average swinging speed for different cases.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 1 May 2014
• Kaprielian prevailed with a 93.8 mph fastball that induced a swinging third strike.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 June 2021
• The swinging toe-tapper is one of two songs featuring the always-welcome warm vocals of Sam Moore, who blends in quietly.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024