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• The lone eagle swooped down into the lake, snatching its prey, a small fish.
• The dog had enthusiastically swooped down on the bone.
• There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.
• A hawk swoops a chicken.
• And now at last you came to swoop it all.
• The grazing ox which swoops it [the medicinal herb] in with the common grass.
• The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. – Sun Tzu
• Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop. – John Webster
• One evening, when the Boy was going to bed, he couldn't find the china dog that always slept with him. Nana was in a hurry, and it was too much trouble to hunt for china dogs at bedtime, so she simply looked about her, and seeing that the toy cupboard door stood open, she made a swoop.
• The hawk swooped down into the lake, snatching and devouring its prey, a small fish. (le faucon plongea en piqué vers le lac, s'emparant de sa proie, un petit poisson, et le dévorant).
• The police quickly swooped on the gang. Les policiers assaillirent rapidement le gang par surprise.
• The dog had enthusiastically swooped down on the bone. Le chien s'était précipité sur l'os avec enthousiasme.