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  • adverb In a swaying way; unsteadily.

Etymologies

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swaying +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • This is what I thought after we arrived at the military airfield and boarded a converted cargo plane that went bucking down the runway and lifted swayingly into the mist.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • This is what I thought after we arrived at the military airfield and boarded a converted cargo plane that went bucking down the runway and lifted swayingly into the mist.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • This is what I thought after we arrived at the military airfield and boarded a converted cargo plane that went bucking down the runway and lifted swayingly into the mist.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • On "The Way Things Are," with a swayingly melodic chorus that could make it an enormous hit, Ms. Apple chooses to stay put: "So keep on calling me names," she sings, "keep on, keep on/And I'll keep kicking the crap till it's gone."

    Fiona Apple Blossoms ��� Sonic Youth's Millennial Boom 1999

  •  She was lightheaded, a little dreamy, even drowsy, moving swayingly in Sam's arms, her body leaning on him.

    Sleeping Partners Lamb, Charlotte, 1937- 1991

  • He looked swayingly around at his audience, and could not help but be aware of an air of scepticism about their jumbled faces.

    So long, and thanks for all the fish Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1984

  • With perfect precision, and poise, the men and women of the couples separated, stepped swayingly, each towards the nearest of the couple to their right, and retreated.

    The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • And in the window as she stood there, swayingly, was a dark, blurred thing which might have been anything at all.

    Lifted Masks; stories Susan Glaspell 1915

  • He saw the beach comber sit up, and then, with much pain and difficulty, get swayingly to his feet.

    Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story Albert Payson Terhune 1907

  • As she went swayingly toward the bottom of the bay he slipped clear of her and struck out through the tepid water.

    Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story Albert Payson Terhune 1907

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