Examples of swot in a Sentence
Noun
every time he begged off a night at the pub—saying he had to study—his mates teased him for being a swot
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Ruby Tandoh,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
The Economist,
13 June 2020
Greenblatt might want to have a chinwag with some of his colleagues in the history department and swot up the biography of someone like Wisconsin’s Robert La Follette, a progressive populist politician perhaps more to his liking.
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Alex Beam,
BostonGlobe.com,
2 May 2018
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Noun
Nobody talked about the furtive ambition of the swots.
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Ruby Tandoh,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
Verb
Yamada Jun, the IT expert, became the CEO and travelled to Germany to swot up on renewables.
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The Economist,
13 June 2020
Greenblatt might want to have a chinwag with some of his colleagues in the history department and swot up the biography of someone like Wisconsin’s Robert La Follette, a progressive populist politician perhaps more to his liking.
—
Alex Beam,
BostonGlobe.com,
2 May 2018
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“Swot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swot. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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