0 present participle of swoop
1 to move very quickly and easily through the air, especially down from a high position in order to attack:
The two men were singing, swooping, undulating, unintelligible words, and the back of my neck tingled.
As a counterexample they suggest the perception of a bird swooping down to land and its identification.
However, by 1950 a poster from the same location carries an image of a single-child family swooping down towards an eerily empty and well-ordered beach.
Her adroit interpretation of the solo part, swooping around to realize the score's frequent exploration of keyboard extremes, was a visual as well as an aural delight.
They are swooping and preying on those unfortunate enough to be unemployed.
They could not be altered in evidence without the defence swooping on it.
Natural facilities are used for sport and recreation, hang-gliding, caving and walking—as long as one is careful to avoid hang-gliders swooping down and catching one behind the neck.
I cannot think of anyone more likely to be attracted by a qualitative leap than he is with his swooping intellect and his liking for the metaphysic of history.
