How to Use swat in a Sentence

swat

1 of 2 verb

• 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.
• What can be done about swatting?
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2025
• What can be done about swatting?
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
• Castle didn’t swipe away a steal or swat a shot.
  — Fred Katz, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2026
• Betts swatted the Texas run to halt.
  — John Marshall, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2026
• Betts swatted the Texas run to halt.
  — CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
• James swatted one of his shots and plowed over him with a spin move in the lane.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2024
• What is swatting and how big is the problem?
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
• Guthrie said, while swatting at Gere with her pages of notes.
  — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 21 Nov. 2024
• But few have had to swat away fakers for as long as Collins has.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 25 Nov. 2022
• Reaching the shift lever is as easy as swatting a fly off your knee.
  — Fred M.h. Gregory, Car and Driver, 12 July 2023
• Why is swatting such a big problem?
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2025
• Why is swatting such a big problem?
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
• Davis would have swatted or altered or just plain stopped much of that mess.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2024
• As the ball arrives, the rookie sticks a white glove out to swat it away.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Sep. 2022
• Twitch streamers have had fans show up at their homes or even swat them live on air for years.
  — Megan Farokhmanesh, The Verge, 18 May 2018
• If the president needs a hand to hold, who will be there to swat it away?
  — Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 4 June 2018
• Marchand tried to swat it out of the air and into the net, but couldn’t.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2022
• Lock down Lamb, swat a crossing route to the turf and force a field goal.
  — Matt Schubert, Denver Post, 26 Oct. 2025
• Pick a style that'll keep you from having to swat away stray strands during your vows.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 5 May 2026
• Baker-Mazara closed the gap and swatted the ball.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2026
• No one has been injured in the swatting attempts so far.
  — Hayleigh Colombo, IndyStar, 7 Dec. 2025
• Most came from guards sagging down on Edey and swatting it away.
  — Eddie Pells, The Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2024
• The best way to stop malaria from coming back is to swat it quickly.
  — The Economist, 28 Oct. 2017
• Years ago somebody made an attempt at swatting me as well.
  — Dave Smith, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2025
• Then Bryant flew in and stole the moment by swatting it away.
  — Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
• The first mosquitoes are always the big slow ones that are easy to swat.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2021
• They have also been observed using sticks and leaves to swat away flies.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2022

swat

2 of 2 noun

• Woolen has one pass breakup, a touchdown-saving swat in the fourth quarter against the 49ers.
  — Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
• Brown rose up for the slam, but Pringle was in his path and got the swat right at the rim to hype the Hogs' crowd.
  — Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 4 Jan. 2026
• Or that Patel exploded at the FBI swat team’s commander.
  — Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 28 Apr. 2026
• In the third, a gloved swat by Cole Sillinger sent the puck skidding across the Avalanche’s goal mouth to the stick of Damon Severson.
  — Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
• Betts, however, delivered a clutch block and UCLA gained possession after the swat.
  — Marisa Ingemi, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2026
• The swat helped Arkansas survive for an 83-79 win at Oklahoma on Tuesday night.
  — Matt Byrne, Arkansas Online, 28 Jan. 2026
• In a demonstration to military clients, Julian uses bright scarlet lasers to render Ares and an intimidating swat truck in his private hangar.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 7 Oct. 2025
• The Wolverines had only three swats against Arizona, but that was a 91-73 win in a game that was supposed to be the best of the tournament but turned into something else.
  — CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
• The sky-high swat by Bidunga — with his dominant left hand — was the 6-foot-9, 220-pounder’s third rejection of the game (to go with 10 rebounds) and his final highlight-reel play.
  — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 16 Nov. 2025
• The Broncos’ 27-26 overtime win at Washington in late-November will be remembered primarily for Nik Bonitto’s walk-off, 2-point conversion swat that secured victory.
  — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026
• Williamson was the Times journalist who revealed that Patel had used a swat team to protect his country singer girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, when she was invited to sing the national anthem at the annual convention of the National Rifle Association.
  — Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 28 Apr. 2026