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Sentences ending with swim

You want us to pack up and swim. [5]
There were things there that made his brain swim. [5]
Every now and then we plunged in and had a swim. [5]
It makes his head swim. [5]

Sentences containing swim two or more times

To get money to do things, no matter how,--or little matter how; to be in the swim, and that swim all too rapidly washing out the real people--that was the almost universal ambition. [11]

More example sentences with the word swim in them

Gyges told us we were very imprudent, but we felt confident that we were too much inured to such things to get any harm, and very much enjoyed our swim in the cool, green water. [10]
In two days we had it all done and the water in--a spacious pool of clear pure water that a body could swim in. [5]
Gradually, however, as Venters and Bess knelt low, holding the dogs, the beavers emerged to swim with logs and gnaw at cottonwoods and pat mud walls with their paddle-like tails, and, glossy and shiny in the sun, to go on with their strange, persistent industry. [13]
This confronting of two civilizations is always a grand sensation to me; it is like cutting through the isthmus and letting the two oceans swim into each other's laps. [6]
At noon we took a swim in the Sea of Galilee--a blessed privilege in this roasting climate--and then lunched under a neglected old fig-tree at the fountain they call Ain-et-Tin, a hundred yards from ruined Capernaum. [5]
They were wont to swim with the tide of indolence, extravagance, self-seeking, and sordid pleasure now flowing through the hardy isles, from which had come much of the strength of the Old World and the vision and spirit of the New World. [11]
Had she strength to swim it? [4]
You will have to learn to swim through the roaring torrent with me. [10]
I will go to America, where all men are equal and all have an equal chance; I will live or die, sink or swim, win or lose as just a man--that alone, and not a single helping gaud or fiction back of it. [5]
A little waiting time, and they swim into our ken, but in what order of precedence it is as yet not easy to say. [6]
The colonel of the Polish Uhlans, a handsome old man, flushed and, fumbling in his speech from excitement, asked the aide-de-camp whether he would be permitted to swim the river with his Uhlans instead of seeking a ford. [2]
The king and the duke turned out by and by looking pretty rusty; but after they'd jumped overboard and took a swim it chippered them up a good deal. [5]
To fish, to swim, to snooze on the rocks, that is all, for ever and ever. [4]
It's sink or swim with me, and if you can't help me--oh, I'd take my gruel without whining, if it wasn't for Di! [11]
No man can swim up stream very long in these days, Hillman. [9]
For those that swim she has provided a more than imperial domain--a domain which is miles deep and covers four-fifths of the globe. [5]
You can not swim on your back and make any progress of any consequence, because your feet stick away above the surface, and there is nothing to propel yourself with but your heels. [5]
We took another swim in the Sea of Galilee at twilight yesterday, and another at sunrise this morning. [5]
They took a swim about every hour, so it was close upon the middle of the afternoon when they got back to camp. [5]
He struck the sponge smartly on ma couzaine's muzzle, cleansing it--he would have to slide into the water like a rat and swim very softly to the shore. [11]
A horse is so top-heavy that he can neither swim nor stand up in the Dead Sea. [5]
She learned to row herself about upon it, to swim boldly in it, for it had sheltered nooks but a little way above The Poplars. [6]
If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile. [5]
Before the depth reached his middle he was half-way over; the current would permit no more wading, now, so he struck out confidently to swim the remaining hundred yards. [5]
For it has proved for many,--I will not say a _pons asinorum_,--but a very narrow bridge, which it made their heads swim to attempt crossing, and yet they must cross it, or one domain of Emerson's intellect will not be reached. [6]
I was the only one that could swim, so I made a dash for it, and Miss Hooker she said if I didn't strike help sooner, come here and hunt up her uncle, and he'd fix the thing. [5]
If you swim on your face, you kick up the water like a stern-wheel boat. [5]
When Wendelin complained of the heat, George would spring into the lake for a swim, and when Wendelin was freezing, George would praise the fresh bracing air. [10]
They were full of good things, but so incredibly mixed up and wandering that it made one's head swim to follow him. [5]
She had eyes of a wonderful deep blue; they seemed to swim with light. [11]
Everything swim in my head, and I kill him. [11]
Her father and my aunt were in that swim, and we were sympathisers. [11]
Canal-boats, drawn by mules, swim by, feeling their way along like blind men led by dogs. [6]
Well, she has met Twichell three times since then, and would swim the Connecticut to avoid meeting him the fourth. [5]
Next we slid into the river and had a swim, so as to freshen up and cool off; then we set down on the sandy bottom where the water was about knee deep, and watched the daylight come. [5]
I was wounded in the shoulder, and had to swim with one arm; but though boats were put out, I managed to evade them and to get within hail of our fleet. [11]
I shall swim in front of you until we come to the big basin into which the springs of these mountains empty their waters. [10]
Some of the horses were drowned and some of the men; the others tried to swim on, some in the saddle and some clinging to their horses' manes. [2]
It made her head swim and her knees tremble. [6]
Den I was gwyne to swim to de raf' agin when dey was gone. [5]
There was nothing for it but to swim after her, which I did, and caught her quietly feeding in the cane on the other side. [9]
A horse, after finding no relief comes, will swim off in search of food, whereas a beef will stand in its tracks until with exhaustion it drops in the water and drowns. [5]
I, and the few Alexandrians who, following me, sacrifice beauty to truth, swim against the stream which bears you, Myrtilus, and those who are on your side, smoothly along. [10]
It is safe enough to go into the water with those who can swim, but those who sink are apt to draw you down with them. [10]
Millions of wild ducks and sea-gulls swim about the surface, but no living thing exists under the surface, except a white feathery sort of worm, one half an inch long, which looks like a bit of white thread frayed out at the sides. [5]
So I slide down and swim to the shore. [11]
What can one do in such a spot, but swim in the lake, lie on the shore, and watch the passing steamers and the changing light on the mountains? [4]
He was supported by Sir Hayes Craven, a shipowner, who further said that not one out of ten British sailors could swim, while not five out of ten could row a boat properly. [11]
Ollendorff seized some brush and dragged himself ashore, but Ballou and I had to swim for it, encumbered with our overcoats. [5]
The duchy of Bercy may sink or swim for all of me, if so be it does not stand with us in our holy war. [11]
Those people had been living in the midst of real war for seven months; and to hear this windy giant lay out his imaginary campaigns and fairly swim in blood and spatter it all around, entertained them to the verge of the grave. [5]
We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. [5]
He could swim, and as he swept down this thought came to him--that he might be able to get the shore, as he heard the cries of people on the bank. [11]
As we talk and a great laugh swim round, there come a noise behind us like shuffling feet. [11]
I shall be abroad for some years, and, meanwhile, a new planet will swim into the universe of matrimony. [11]
It was only a long swim that could be fatal. [5]
He reached for a fresh cartridge, and thrust it into the throat of the gun, and as the seam was laid downwards he said to himself that he could swim under water, if discovered as he left the Victoire. [11]

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