How to Use swing in a Sentence

swing

1 of 3 verb

• The sheets swung on the clothesline.
• She swung the bat but missed the ball.
• She swung the door open.
• She sat on the counter and swung her legs over to the other side.
• She swung her purse at me.
• The monkeys were swinging from branch to branch high up in the trees.
• She sat on the edge of the table, swinging her legs.
• I swung my suitcase into the backseat of the car.
• Be careful how you swing that ax.
• The clock's pendulum stopped swinging.
• Butera stopped, then swung around.
  — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
• Ohtani swung and missed at both.
  — Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
• Williams won nine and swung freely.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• Got them to swing, which was good.
  — David O'Brien, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
• The vines are thick enough to swing on.
  — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
• How does one swing that the first time?
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2026
• That means the Sky should swing for the fences.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
• This is due to a cold front that will swing across the area.
  — Lauren Bostwick, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
• Tucker swung through it once again.
  — Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
• Charles had taught me to swing my cane wide in search of a bus pole.
  — Andrew Leland, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
• The front door swung open, like a haunted house.
  — Adam Ciralsky, Vanity Fair, 19 Mar. 2026
• Think about a car door that swings open near a cyclist.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026
• Let the sounds of jazz swing you through dinner and dessert.
  — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 31 Jan. 2026
• Like Romero, Poulin knows how to swing the bat.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2026
• The thought swings through her, like a burning stick through night air.
  — Maggie O’Farrell, Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
• This gives you both time and room to swing with a heavy hand and drive those hooks in.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 25 Apr. 2023
• The Sabres were happy to swing away.
  — Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
• Would Denver swing on that price, though?
  — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 6 Mar. 2026
• The Brewers swung and missed at six of them.
  — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 14 Oct. 2025
• Enjoy them from your porch swing with a glass of iced sweet tea at hand.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 10 May 2026

swing

2 of 3 noun

• The kids were playing on the swings.
• We sat on the porch swing and watched the neighbors.
• One swing of the hammer was all it took to drive the nail through the board.
• Mullins is the swing of the bunch.
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2026
• Some big walks, big hits, big swings.
  — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
• But then the swings fell back to earth.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
• Big swing, big name, did not work.
  — Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
• There aren’t as many swing seats in play.
  — W. James Antle Iii, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
• Such swings could be a sign of things to come.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 20 June 2026
• Or yes and no, swing, no swing, based on the count.
  — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 4 June 2026
• That is Ohtani when his swing is right.
  — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 15 May 2026
• Her comeback tour is in full swing.
  — Tim Rohan, NBC news, 7 May 2026
• His swing is tight and compact.
  — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2026
• And then my swing is a compressed swing.
  — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 30 Aug. 2025
• My swing path is out instead of through.
  — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 21 Mar. 2026
• Was able to get some swing and miss also.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2026
• The third quarter was the swing.
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2026
• Set pieces feel like the swing factor.
  — Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2026
• His eyes go to certain things in his swing.
  — Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2026
• Then his right wrist locked up during a swing.
  — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
• Massey made swing changes in recent months.
  — Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2025
• Got some swing and miss, some soft contact.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2026
• Got some pitches and put some good swings on it.
  — Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• And then the split was on-play, short, lot of swing-and-miss.
  — Jack Vita, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2026
• What films inspired this big, bold swing?
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 17 Jan. 2026
• Their next swing will be much more measured.
  — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
• The one’s about his right-handed swing.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2026
• Battle for the midterms is in full swing right now.
  — ABC News, 26 Apr. 2026
• Add seating such as chairs, a bench or a swing.
  — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 6 Apr. 2026
• His swing looked smooth with a steady posture.
  — Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025

swing

3 of 3 adjective

• The process for Song will involve starting his pre-swing movement earlier.
  — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
• Velasquez got Trevor Story on a check-swing third strike to end the inning, putting him in position to pick up the win.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2022
• The co-signers say Biden is already strong with voters in swing Midwestern states and with voters of color.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 16 June 2020
• Both campaigns are firing off mailers and airing television ads that cranked up the volume of the race to something more like the shrill fury of a swing Congressional district.
  — Andrew Oxford, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2020
• But others in the party — most significantly, a half-dozen senators running for re-election in Democratic and swing states — face a tougher choice.
  — Alexander Burns, New York Times, 4 May 2016
• Miguel Rojas was ejected in the third inning after confronting first-base umpire Mark Carlson, who ruled Rojas had gone around on a check-swing third strike.
  — Dennis Georgatos, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Aug. 2021
• Adell simplified his pre-swing approach by removing excess movement and shortened his path to the ball, resulting in better plate discipline and more consistent contact.
  — Mike Digiovannastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2022
• The high-speed Ion3 camera captures club and ball launch data at the point of impact and also records an HD video of the club through the impact zone for post-swing analysis.
  — Shaun Tolson, Robb Report, 3 May 2022
• And Pompeo may play a swing role, a hard-line former congressman and CIA director who, in his new job, seems determined to give diplomacy a fair shot.
  — Mark Lander, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2018
• Similarly, Susan Collins of Maine, a swing Republican vote and a member of the eight-senator task force, also represents a state that is both very old and very poor.
  — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• Max Scherzer, with no prior saves to his professional resume, closed out the game, ending it on a controversial check-swing third strike against Wilmer Flores that replays showed to be incorrect.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2021
• The party official also shared with Vox internal monitoring reports indicating a high volume of malicious Twitter handles targeting two swing races key to Democratic efforts to retake the House.
  — Benjamin Wofford, Vox, 25 Oct. 2018