0 present participle of sway
2 to persuade someone to believe or do one thing rather than another:
Her speech failed to sway her colleagues into supporting the plan.
We ask ourselves, is that supposed to be a mountain swaying in the breeze?
The core idea of this article is that the cost of swaying voters for an incumbent candidate varies with the safety of the incumbent's seat.
Orthostatic hypotension is difficult to measure with a swaying near-syncopal patient and a conventional mercury sphygmomanometer.
By the end of this section, the reader, too, is swaying back and forth to the imagined melody of this music that sets souls humming.
There is no one swaying in anticipation; the music moves completely in its own time.
Glittering orientalist plastique faded into swaying, nacreous backdrops.
The computer interprets the sounds received from the three swaying microphones and responds by playing new notes over the three speakers.
The rejection of the regime and the dynamics of the opposition certainly played a part, but less so than the swaying power of the towns.
