How to Use swat in a Sentence
- The cat was swatting the injured mouse with its paw.
- He swatted the tennis ball out of bounds.
- She swatted the fly with a magazine.
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What can be done about swatting?
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Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
23 Aug. 2025
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What can be done about swatting?
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Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
26 Aug. 2025
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Castle didn’t swipe away a steal or swat a shot.
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Fred Katz,
New York Times,
2 Apr. 2026
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Betts swatted the Texas run to halt.
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John Marshall,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
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Betts swatted the Texas run to halt.
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CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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James swatted one of his shots and plowed over him with a spin move in the lane.
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Thuc Nhi Nguyen,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Aug. 2024
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What is swatting and how big is the problem?
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Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
26 Aug. 2025
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Guthrie said, while swatting at Gere with her pages of notes.
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Alli Rosenbloom,
CNN,
21 Nov. 2024
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But few have had to swat away fakers for as long as Collins has.
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David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
25 Nov. 2022
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Reaching the shift lever is as easy as swatting a fly off your knee.
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Fred M.h. Gregory,
Car and Driver,
12 July 2023
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Why is swatting such a big problem?
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Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
23 Aug. 2025
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Why is swatting such a big problem?
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Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
26 Aug. 2025
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Davis would have swatted or altered or just plain stopped much of that mess.
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Bill Plaschke,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar. 2024
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As the ball arrives, the rookie sticks a white glove out to swat it away.
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Nate Atkins,
The Indianapolis Star,
30 Sep. 2022
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Twitch streamers have had fans show up at their homes or even swat them live on air for years.
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Megan Farokhmanesh,
The Verge,
18 May 2018
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If the president needs a hand to hold, who will be there to swat it away?
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Margaret Hartmann,
Daily Intelligencer,
4 June 2018
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Marchand tried to swat it out of the air and into the net, but couldn’t.
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BostonGlobe.com,
21 Mar. 2022
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Lock down Lamb, swat a crossing route to the turf and force a field goal.
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Matt Schubert,
Denver Post,
26 Oct. 2025
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Pick a style that'll keep you from having to swat away stray strands during your vows.
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Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
5 May 2026
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Baker-Mazara closed the gap and swatted the ball.
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Los Angeles Times,
2 Mar. 2026
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No one has been injured in the swatting attempts so far.
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Hayleigh Colombo,
IndyStar,
7 Dec. 2025
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Most came from guards sagging down on Edey and swatting it away.
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Eddie Pells,
The Mercury News,
6 Apr. 2024
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The best way to stop malaria from coming back is to swat it quickly.
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The Economist,
28 Oct. 2017
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Years ago somebody made an attempt at swatting me as well.
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Dave Smith,
Fortune,
12 Aug. 2025
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Then Bryant flew in and stole the moment by swatting it away.
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Michael-Shawn Dugar,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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The first mosquitoes are always the big slow ones that are easy to swat.
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John Schandelmeier,
Anchorage Daily News,
24 Apr. 2021
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They have also been observed using sticks and leaves to swat away flies.
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Daisy Hernandez,
Popular Mechanics,
14 Apr. 2022
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For Williams, that tone-setting swat was just the start.
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BostonGlobe.com,
2021-05-23
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But all of these methods risk being met with a deft swat from the host.
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Brigit Katz,
Smithsonian,
2019-12-02
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The Twins are about to get some swat and some sock back in their lineup.
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La Velle E. Neal Iii,
Star Tribune,
2021-06-14
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The game’s executives blamed the deficit of swat on the height of the mound.
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Diana Nelson Jones,
Detroit Free Press,
2017-09-30
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The anti-gay laws aim to swat gay people down and send them back to the closet.
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Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
2024-07-26
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In many cultures, a swat on the bottom of a child who had stepped out of line was often enough.
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Meghan Leahy,
chicagotribune.com,
2018-07-05
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Davis could just hang in the paint and use his 7-6 wingspan to swat anything close to the rim.
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Connor Letourneau,
San Francisco Chronicle,
2023-05-08
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Finch was not the intended target of the swat, and lived at an old address for Gaskill.
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Washington Post,
2018-05-23
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SWAT occupied a string of houses and held the line there.
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Victor J. Blue,
The New Yorker,
2017-02-09
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Turkey had gone 0 for 9 on shots to take the lead before Ilyasova’s swat bounced off the rim and dropped through the net.
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Tim Reynolds,
The Denver Post,
2019-09-03
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All three are members of the SED/SWAT team.
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Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Aug. 2025
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One of those four swats came on Clint Capela’s dunk try off a lob with 2:35 left and the Bucks up by five.
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Joe Vardon,
The Athletic,
2024-12-15
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By this time, our SWAT teams were scouring every inch of the downtown area in search of snipers.
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David Brown,
Esquire,
2017-06-09
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Members drag an injured member through the snow while a SWAT medic checks his vitals.
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Harper’s Magazine,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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This can result in a forceful response from local police and SWAT teams, who have no way to know the call is a hoax.
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Cindy Von Quednow,
CNN Money,
21 Aug. 2025
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There was an extensive police presence, and two SWAT vehicles were on the scene.
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Ryan Murphy,
IndyStar,
14 Aug. 2025
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The deputies retreated and waited for the arrival of the Street Response Team and the sheriff’s office SWAT team.
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Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
27 Aug. 2025
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Turner was arrested during a SWAT raid on her son’s Florida home in May 2024.
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Karu F. Daniels,
New York Daily News,
15 Aug. 2025
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Three weeks after the crash, Danielovich, assigned to the Bike Unit and a junior member of the SWAT team, received a glowing review annual review.
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Angie Dimichele,
Sun Sentinel,
19 Aug. 2025
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These officers are like a SWAT team — deportation officers with special training to assist in difficult situations.
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Rebecca Santana,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Aug. 2025
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After the deputies were evacuated, Chapman barricaded himself alone inside the residence, and a SWAT team with negotiators was called to the scene.
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Gillian Stawiszynski,
The Enquirer,
31 Aug. 2025
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Kingston and Turner were arrested in May 2024 on theft charges following a SWAT raid on his South Florida mansion.
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Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
15 Aug. 2025
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His report triggered a massive emergency response, including SWAT teams, drone units and aerial support from Colorado State Patrol.
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ABC News,
21 Aug. 2025
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Mothershead argues in the motion that even if Coon's use of deadly force was not excessive, that does not mean the decision to deploy a SWAT team in the first place was necessarily constitutional.
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Evan Mealins,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
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Marshals and state police SWAT officers arrested Kemarie Johnson, 19, of Conway in Pine Bluff on Thursday evening, the release states.
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Arkansas Online,
22 Aug. 2025
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The suspect was eventually taken into custody following a massive police and SWAT response from neighboring agencies in Box Elder, Weber and Cache Counties.
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Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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Helmick said officers evacuated the surrounding apartments and requested help from the Red River Valley SWAT Team, a group of officers from Fargo-Moorhead area law enforcement.
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Forum News Service,
Twin Cities,
13 Aug. 2025
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There were unsubstantiated reports of a gunman in the facility, and the ATF, in a joint operation with the New Orleans SWAT team, stormed the location with guns drawn to hunt down a gunman who never materialized.
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Mandi Wright,
Freep.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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The Sheriff’s Office’s Crisis Intervention Negotiation Team and SWAT team responded.
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Sacbee.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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Sheriff's officials, backed by K-9 units, forensic teams and SWAT officers, served search warrants at the family's Cabazon home before arresting Rebecca and Jake Haro as the investigation continues.
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Jenna Sundel
gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Aug. 2025
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