Swam Sentence Examples

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  • He swam deeper into the lake.

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  • He swam to an island that was not far away.

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  • But after an hour he seemed as fresh as ever, dived as willingly, and swam yet farther than at first.

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  • Images of Kris, his only love in two thousand years, swam through his thoughts.

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  • She ducked under the water and swam a short distance before surfacing to make sure she wasn't close to any rocks.

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  • She hardly rivalled Lady Jane Grey as the ideal Puritan maiden, but she swam with the stream, and was regarded as a foil to her stubborn Catholic sister.

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  • Every night Hero placed a lamp in the top of the tower where she dwelt by the sea, and Leander, guided by it, swam across the dangerous Hellespont.

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  • She dove into the pool and swam several laps before emerging.

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  • All at once a sudden shock passed through my whole being, my eyes swam, and I seemed wrapped in a dazzling white mist.

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  • Cushing himself swam to the swamps on the river bank, and after wading among them for hours reached a Federal picket boat.

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  • The creek flowed over a succession of rock ledges and formed pools at the edge where tadpoles swam.

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  • The demons swam within him, fighting for control of his body.

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  • Chris swam 100m butterfly coming 3rd in the final, qualifying to represent Kent Schools in a gala against Surrey.

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  • Numerous fish, including some quite large bib, constantly swam through our flashlight beams throughout the dive.

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  • As for the full bodysuit, Van den Hoogenband swam in leggings but was bare from the waist up.

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  • We swam over several hold coamings, before moving up to the distinctive bows.

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  • Dust motes swam alongside her down the gloomy corridor.

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  • I fell a bit short, placing third, but swam faster than I had as a college freshman 37 years ago.

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  • We then headed down to the indoor pool and slowly swam a few lengths while admiring the panorama through the huge picture windows.

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  • Gordon Young swam ashore with a line, two lifejackets and a waterproof VHF radio and secured the line around a rock.

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  • Morris swam out and eventually succeeded in saving him.

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  • When told that Jesus walked on the sea to meet His disciples, she said, decidedly, "It does not mean WALKED, it means SWAM."

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  • And suddenly thoughts and feelings again swam to the surface of his mind with peculiar clearness and force.

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  • Tiny ripples swam for a short distance into the lake.

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  • We swam in the hotel pool, ate three excellent meals, and visited the large shopping mall in the center of Dubai.

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  • Cool but quite scary; also swam with stingray, angel fish, yellow tailed sturgeon fish, sea lions, parrotfish, starfish.

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  • In Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (the movie that precedes Godzilla vs. Destroyah), Godzilla and Baby Godzilla swam out to sea and found an uninhabited island in the Pacific to live on.

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  • Each spoke to him as he swam, filling his head with visions as they told him their stories.

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  • Taran tore out of the great hall, followed closely by the madman, whose agitated demon swam visibly beneath his skin.

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  • The accused jumped into the sacred river, and the innocent swam while the guilty drowned.

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  • He had said expressly that the universal essence, by the addition of the individual forms, was individualized and present secundum totam swam quantitatem in each individual.

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  • The latter offers a cannibal-meal to the disguised God, who turns him into a wolf for his sins; and the later Arcadian ritual in honour of this God betrays a hint of lycanthropy; some one who partook of the sacrifice or who swam across a certain lake was supposed to be transformed into a wolf for a certain time.4 Robertson Smith 5 was the first to propose that we have here the traces of an ancient totemistic sacrifice of a wolf-clan, who offered the " theanthropic " animal " the man-wolf " to the wolf-God.

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  • Rachel I must also admit, however, no ladies swam the 50m freestyle.

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  • The whole scene swam before me, and I was carried back insensible by some who recognized me.

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  • The horse, ridden by a youth later to become my father, made a sudden plunge and swam quickly out of its depth.

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  • Women swam in the ancient world as well.

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  • So he climbed the highest mountain, swam the deepest ocean and walked the biggest desert.

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  • I preferred solitude anyway; it was the medium in which I had been raised, in which I swam comfortably.

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  • Three brown striped lion fish swam lazily past, and we saw two stonefish together.

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  • From now on, she would be sure she had her beach robe by the pool when she swam, just in case someone came by... especially Giddon.

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  • She swam as far from the beach as she could, expelled her breath, then drew in a mouthful of water.

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  • Minos, disgusted at Scylla's treachery, tied her to the rudder of his ship, and afterwards cast her body ashore on the promontory called after her Scyllaeum; or she threw herself into the sea and swam after Minos, constantly pursued by her father, until at last she was changed into a ciris (a bird or a fish).

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  • Once a little fish swam too near the surface, and the kitten grabbed it in her mouth and ate it up as quick as a wink; but Dorothy cautioned her to be careful what she ate in this valley of enchantments, and no more fishes were careless enough to swim within reach.

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  • Yet he appeared to know his course as surely under water as on the surface, and swam much faster there.

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