How to Use swinging in a Sentence

swinging

adjective
  • This music is really swinging.
  • Leury García hit a swinging bunt between the mound and plate.
    Lamond Pope, chicagotribune.com, 25 July 2021
  • Hosmer went down on six pitches, retired on a swinging strike.
    CBS News, 12 Sep. 2021
  • 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, 16 May 2021
  • All 10 of Burnes' strikeouts during his streak came on a swinging strike three.
    Matt Carlson, ajc, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Bassitt’s next pitch was a flatter breaking ball at 71 mph that induced a swinging third strike.
    Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2021
  • It is met by the wildly swinging boot of Iniesta and ends up nestling in the top corner.
    SI.com, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Unruh decided to buy it, restore it, and turn it into a swinging spot.
    Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2022
  • While a permanent home is being built for them, the swinging two-year old jungle playmates had nowhere to go.
    NOLA.com, 4 Nov. 2020
  • 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, 1 May 2020
  • Here is a plot of the average swinging speed for different cases.
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 1 May 2014
  • 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, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The most up-tempo track on the album coasts on squiggly synthesizers and a swinging rhythm.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Schoop fouled off five pitches before Irvin threw a 93 mph fastball past him for a swinging third strike.
    Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2021
  • One came from a swinging bunt (fifth inning) and another came from a successful squeeze bunt (sixth inning).
    Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 18 Sep. 2021
  • The agency has secured the swinging emergency fare gates at stations and deployed audio alarms at some.
    Faiz Siddiqui, Washington Post, 30 May 2018
  • 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, 5 May 2021
  • 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, 14 May 2021
  • 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, 23 Nov. 2020
  • 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, 4 Aug. 2022
  • 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, 12 June 2022
  • 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, 26 May 2022
  • The second piece is almost like a Narcissus pool, where the circle is drawn by a swinging pendulum.
    Barry Samaha, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Sep. 2020
  • 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, 13 May 2021
  • Eloy Jiménez exited in the eighth inning Friday after twisting his right knee on a swinging strike.
    Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2022
  • 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, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Sitili Tupouniua thumped Lachlan Burr directly on the jaw with a swinging arm.
    Mike Meehall Wood, Forbes, 19 May 2021
  • With a 2-2 count and the bases loaded, Bradford’s final pitch blew by a swinging Sawyer Solitaria.
    Matt Goul, cleveland, 3 June 2022
  • Sales took a dive on Monday, the seller said, adding that news of the further spreading virus and a wildly swinging stock market is keeping shoppers away.
    Joseph Pisani, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2020
  • 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, 23 June 2022

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