How to Use swinging in a Sentence

swinging

adjective
  • Leury García hit a swinging bunt between the mound and plate.
    — Lamond Pope, chicagotribune.com, 2021-07-25
  • Hosmer went down on six pitches, retired on a swinging strike.
    — CBS News, 2021-09-12
  • 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, 2021-05-16
  • His swinging strike percentage is up quite a bit more, to 23.9%.
    — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2020-08-16
  • All 10 of Burnes' strikeouts during his streak came on a swinging strike three.
    — Matt Carlson, ajc, 2021-08-12
  • It is met by the wildly swinging boot of Iniesta and ends up nestling in the top corner.
    — SI.com, 2019-10-07
  • Unruh decided to buy it, restore it, and turn it into a swinging spot.
    — Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 2022-02-01
  • While a permanent home is being built for them, the swinging two-year old jungle playmates had nowhere to go.
    — NOLA.com, 2020-11-04
  • 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, 2020-05-01
  • Here is a plot of the average swinging speed for different cases.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 2014-05-01
  • 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, 2020-10-06
  • The most up-tempo track on the album coasts on squiggly synthesizers and a swinging rhythm.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 2022-02-25
  • 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, 2021-05-05
  • 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, 2021-05-14
  • 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, 2020-11-23
  • 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, 2022-08-04
  • 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, 2022-06-12
  • 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, 2022-05-26
  • The second piece is almost like a Narcissus pool, where the circle is drawn by a swinging pendulum.
    — Barry Samaha, Harper's BAZAAR, 2020-09-29
  • 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, 2021-05-13
  • 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, 2021-10-01
  • Sitili Tupouniua thumped Lachlan Burr directly on the jaw with a swinging arm.
    — Mike Meehall Wood, Forbes, 2021-05-19
  • With a 2-2 count and the bases loaded, Bradford’s final pitch blew by a swinging Sawyer Solitaria.
    — Matt Goul, cleveland, 2022-06-03
  • 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, 2022-06-23
  • The new attraction has two options — one that takes riders 100 feet in the air on both sides of a swinging pendulum, park officials said.
    — oregonlive, 2021-04-09
  • The Mariners, meanwhile, offered little resistance to Means, who would have authored a perfect game save for a wild pitch on a swinging strike three.
    — USA Today, 2021-05-11
  • 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, 2022-07-04
  • Sale breezed through the first inning, 1-2-3, getting Michael Brantley on a swinging third strike and throwing only nine pitches.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2021-10-21
  • 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, 2022-02-07
  • The title is a nod to the musical number from First Avenger, and the marching band in the opening sequence plays a swinging arrangement of that song from Steve’s war bonds tour.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2021-03-26

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