How to Use swift in a Sentence

swift

1 of 2 adjective

• This drew swift ire from users.
  — ABC News, 24 Feb. 2026
• The impact on the squad has been swift.
  — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
• Her response was swift and sure.
  — Valerie Monroe, Allure, 25 Mar. 2026
• The blow to the heart is swift and brutal.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
• The response was swift and fierce.
  — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
• This shift in the market has been swift and clear.
  — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
• The best are blunt, swift, and backed by action.
  — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2025
• But the damage was done, and the price was high and swift.
  — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
• The calls from Democrats to end his campaign were swift.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
• The wine-dark seas, swift-footed Achilles.
  — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2026
• There was a clear path to a swift victory.
  — CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
• The party was a smash, but the backlash was swift.
  — Serena Turner, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026
• For some in the latter camp, the backlash has been swift.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
• Africa is no stranger to coups or swift changes in government.
  — Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
• His touch swift and light—like a breeze has found its way through the window cracks.
  — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
• Farke was a swift ‘yes’ when asked if Leeds should pursue him.
  — Beren Cross, New York Times, 17 May 2026
• Still, the ire on social media was swift.
  — Violet Ikonomova, Freep.com, 17 Oct. 2025
• But the backlash was swift and brutal.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
• But by then, his reckoning was swift.
  — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 14 Jan. 2026
• At least that’s a fairly swift and amusing enough process.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
• The backlash has been swift and predictable.
  — Andrea Williams, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Oct. 2025
• After the breakup, the fallout was swift.
  — Fleurine Tideman, Glamour, 23 Mar. 2026
• The clash was swift, the surrender swifter.
  — Kinsey Gidick, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2026
• The response was swift, loud, and chaotic.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 16 May 2026
• The end was swift and merciless.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
• The fallout was swift and severe.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
• The backlash was swift and intense.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Feb. 2026
• Reactions were swift and high-pitched.
  — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2025
• But don’t expect a swift return to $3 gas.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2026
• His swift adoption makes Gunna one of the lucky ones.
  — Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025

swift

2 of 2 noun

• Since her son's death, Bibl has tried to make sense of his swift-killing illness.
  — Sarah Elizabeth Richards, chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2019
• Once afflicted, elms faced a swift and an all-but-certain death.
  — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2020
• The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; but that’s the way to bet.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022
• But now that movement of water isn’t that swift and doesn’t always happen.
  — David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Sep. 2021
• The faithful have adapted to the swifts' presence, prayers mixing with the bird calls.
  — Ruth Sherlock, NPR, 22 July 2026
• Her forehand power and placement were strong, which made her match against Gauff all the more swift.
  — Alex Coffey, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2021
• The theft was brazen and bewildering, the getaway swift, the trail of clues sparse and long-since dried up.
  — AZCentral.com, 6 Oct. 2022
• Market observers are hard pressed to recall such a swift and staggering fall.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 25 June 2020
• Each swift, steady step along the trail provided motivation for the next.
  — Rachel Roberts, idahostatesman, 19 Apr. 2018
• If the right moves are made, the Fuel can reach for a turnaround as swift as Shanghai’s.
  — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 7 Oct. 2020
• There are thousands who’ve parked to the east, and there’s a chance for the swift and alert to get across before the rest of the convoy gets there.
  — al, 28 Feb. 2022
• Departing alongside him was self-delusion that guys like me, nobody’s bantamweight, can’t run with the swift.
  — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2021
• The swift-moving flames were so intense in some places that even though these trees had evolved with low-level fires, almost all of them perished.
  — April Reese, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2021
• Among Hong Kong protesters, there were swift calls for a boycott of the film when it is released next year.
  — Fortune, 19 Aug. 2019
• This certainty of focus may be what allowed Wilson to keep this stage voyage swift.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 1 May 2026
• For species already threatened with extinction, already clinging to the edge, this may have been the swift and final blow.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 8 Jan. 2020
• The longhair man crossed an empty street and, in a swift yet calm manner, set the corner of a wooden outdoor dining shed ablaze.
  — Washington Post, 30 July 2021
• And the swifts have adapted to live with humans, raising their young in the nooks and crannies of buildings and other structures.
  — Ruth Sherlock, NPR, 22 July 2026
• The scandal was a swift and crushing fall from grace for the longest-serving active member of Congress.
  — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 27 Oct. 2019
• During heavy rain, avoid playing near culverts or drainage ditches, where swift-moving water can pose a serious risk.
  — Bay Area Weather Report, Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2026
• In heavy rain, refrain from parking or walking near culverts or drainage ditches, where swift-moving water can pose a grave danger.
  — Southern California Weather Report, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
• But the price tag will have to be large, and the rollout swift, to prevent severe stress in households already suffering from the recession.
  — Ahmet Hacikura, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2020
• During heavy rain, avoid parking or walking near culverts or drainage ditches, where swift-moving water can pose a serious risk.
  — Bay Area Weather Report, Mercury News, 27 May 2026
• Every story demands a language of its own and Raven chooses a fluid, swift-moving style, which takes some getting used to.
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
• But under the surface there is a titanic struggle between the swift moving current in the channel and the ships’ engines.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 19 Mar. 2019
• This swift cool down—which Fortune has dubbed the Great Deceleration—is hardly even.
  — Fortune, 22 June 2022
• The first part is a swift-moving, dreamlike account of the narrator, Chuntao, undergoing surgery.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2021
• Many economists and lawmakers agree that the Fed’s swift, bold moves at the start of the recession helped stave off an ever deeper crisis.
  — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2020
• Here, a morning coffee on the sea-view private sun terrace comes complete with diving swifts and droning dragonflies, not to mention the sound of pulling tides.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 May 2026
• The river does not appear wide there, maybe 20 to 30 yards, but that short distance obscures the dangers posed by the swift-moving current.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2019