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.
• Kiessling waved her hand, as if to swat away the label.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
• Marchand tried to swat it out of the air and into the net, but couldn’t.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2022
• As the ball arrives, the rookie sticks a white glove out to swat it away.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Sep. 2022
• But few have had to swat away fakers for as long as Collins has.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 25 Nov. 2022
• Ruiz threw the ball into the end zone, but it was swatted down to end the back-and-forth affair.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
• The first mosquitoes are always the big slow ones that are easy to swat.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2021
• The cattle pair off, end to end, and use their tails to swat the bugs from each others’ faces.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2021
• Compared with Tanya or Shane or Shane’s mom, Rachel is too easy to swat away.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2021
• Reaching the shift lever is as easy as swatting a fly off your knee.
  — Fred M.h. Gregory, Car and Driver, 12 July 2023
• The ball went up and Adem Bona, the Bruins’ new rim protector, stepped over to swat the shot.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2022
• In college, Zion Williamson was a constant threat to come out of nowhere and swat a shot into the fifth row.
  — Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 11 Dec. 2020
• Davis would have swatted or altered or just plain stopped much of that mess.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2024
• And Pal flew in from behind and swatted Anderson’s layup off the backboard to save the game.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2024
• They have also been observed using sticks and leaves to swat away flies.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2022
• Avoid swatting at the bees or flailing your arms, which can aggravate the bees.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2023
• Dickinson then swatted a layup attempt on one end and added a hook on the other to cap the 11-0 run.
  — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 15 Mar. 2023
• Ask Xavier, which needed to swat away a shot by 14-seed Kennesaw State.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2023
• Rui Patrício wrong-footed and late to swat the ball away.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2021
• In the second quarter, Davis sprinted the length of the court to chase down Devin Booker and swat away his layup — only to wrench his left knee.
  — New York Times, 28 May 2021
• The cycle—theirs, a loud act of survival; ours, a loud act of trying to swat them away—will continue.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 16 June 2021
• Daniel Gafford and Dereck Lively each swatted several shots at the rim into the stands.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2024
• On the very next snap, Ngakoue got enough of a jump to beat the tackle just with his speed and reached out that left arm to swat the ball as Mahomes went to throw.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Sep. 2022
• While walking the grounds during construction, Mr. Dye had picked up a knobby, crooked stick and used it to swat at a stone.
  — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2020
• Entering the season, the Orioles were 1-9 when the switch-hitter swatted two long balls.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 24 Aug. 2023
• Golden Knights goalie Adin Hill couldn't control the rebound and Robertson hit the puck to himself and swatted it out of the air into the net.
  — Mike Brehm, USA TODAY, 26 May 2023
• He’s used to swatting back at resistance to how form meets function here.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 July 2023
• But there was no margin for error with 16 seconds to play and a high leaper approaching the rim, only for Zubac to swat away the threat.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2022

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swat

2 of 2 noun

• The game’s executives blamed the deficit of swat on the height of the mound.
  — Diana Nelson Jones, Detroit Free Press, 30 Sep. 2017
• For Williams, that tone-setting swat was just the start.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2021
• The Twins are about to get some swat and some sock back in their lineup.
  — La Velle E. Neal Iii, Star Tribune, 14 June 2021
• Davis could just hang in the paint and use his 7-6 wingspan to swat anything close to the rim.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 May 2023
• But all of these methods risk being met with a deft swat from the host.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 2 Dec. 2019
• SWAT occupied a string of houses and held the line there.
  — Victor J. Blue, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2017
• Turkey had gone 0 for 9 on shots to take the lead before Ilyasova’s swat bounced off the rim and dropped through the net.
  — Tim Reynolds, The Denver Post, 3 Sep. 2019
• In many cultures, a swat on the bottom of a child who had stepped out of line was often enough.
  — Meghan Leahy, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2018
• Turkey had gone 0 for 9 on shots before Ilyasova’s swat bounced off the rim and dropped through the net.
  — Tim Reynolds, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• Finch was not the intended target of the swat, and lived at an old address for Gaskill.
  — Washington Post, 23 May 2018
• The swats left black, blue and purple bruises from the boy’s hip to his knee and a bruised foot that left him limping for days.
  — Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2018
• By this time, our SWAT teams were scouring every inch of the downtown area in search of snipers.
  — David Brown, Esquire, 9 June 2017
• The woman in blue swats the other woman's hands away as the car begins to back up.
  — Scott Berson, charlotteobserver, 22 May 2018
• The fumble was his, the result of a blind-side swat from the ageless and omnipresent Terrell Suggs.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 10 Sep. 2017
• Michigan State’s shot-blocking freshman launched for the swat.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 10 Dec. 2017
• Then, on a tarmac in Israel in May, the First Lady evaded the president's grasp with a swat heard round the world.
  — Evelyn Wang, Allure, 6 Feb. 2018
• As the dog barked at the wild animal, the bear began to circle the pet and swat at it, the man told Erratt, according to the report.
  — Jared Gilmour, miamiherald, 29 May 2018
• Anyone who saw Smith swat shots, rebound and dunk at Maryland would agree.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2021
• Twins’ DH just couldn’t beat out that sultan of swat: Robbie Grossman.
  — Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 2 Apr. 2017
• When asked which swat was the most important, Ibaka couldn’t quite answer.
  — Sean Gregory/oakland, Time, 6 June 2019
• His volleyball-like swat of Jokic in the first half was memorable.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Aug. 2020
• In addition to swats and pilfers, Tate also led the Norse in infractions.
  — Marc Hardin, Cincinnati.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• SWAT officers responded to the home but after it was cleared Tuesday night the suspect was not there.
  — Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 31 May 2017
• The teams put on a lively show, trading ice hockey-style fast breaks, sneaky steals, and explosive backhand swats.
  — Anthony Flint, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
• One swat with a powerful paw can level a hive, so after losing a few Walton built his bees a fortress.
  — Mychel Matthews, idahostatesman, 11 June 2017
• Ashlyn Harris continued to stand stalwart between the posts for the Pride, knocking away the Red Stars’ best chance of the game with an off-balanced swat of her right hand.
  — Julia Poe, Pro Soccer USA, 23 Aug. 2019
• Without the help of dopamine, the neurons fired less frequently with the scents, which suggests that the bugs would be less able to learn to avoid odors associated with swats.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 5 Feb. 2018
• Andrew Jones grabbed the second swat and found Jase Febres in transition, who threw down a monstrous dunk to give Texas a 37-29 advantage.
  — Alex Briseno, Dallas News, 15 Jan. 2020
• Burton followed up with an emphatic swat of a Jackson layup, a play that produced an eruption from the home crowd.
  — Jack Carney, Indianapolis Star, 2 Jan. 2018
• Ovechkin stayed with it and his baseball-like swat gave him eight goals in the 2018 playoffs and the Capitals their fourth consecutive road win in the postseason.
  — Will Graves, baltimoresun.com, 1 May 2018

Last Updated: 3 May 2024