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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
swoosh .
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Examples
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* I nearly had a nerd-gasm when the opening titles swooshed by in that late-70s S:TM style.
Random Thoughts on Superman Returns David S. Carter 2006
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Sulu rose from his post and took the center seat as the lift's doors 'swooshed' closed.
Before Destruction Rossi, Michael 1991
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Checking a sigh, Raistlin obligingly "swooshed" the kender into a duck pond, to Tas's vast amusement.
Time of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1988
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Checking a sigh, Raistlin obligingly "swooshed" the kender into a duck pond, to Tas's vast amusement.
Time of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1988
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The headlights swooshed into view, illuminating all the trees, houses, and the stop sign by which Stephanie stood, alert and waiting and . . . despondent.
Stephanie Consults Her Clipboard [Card #7: The Chariot (WORK-IN-PROGRESS — v.4)] Christopher Snyder 2012
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If they run it or not the money is gone - spent - swooshed away.
Why Tri-Met is cutting your bus service (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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Twenty-year-old American Lindsey Jacobellis had a huge lead and was about to claim the first gold medal in women's snowboard cross at the 2006 Olympics in Bardonecchia, Italy, when a joyful last-jump trick backfired and dumped her on her seat as Switzerland's Tanja Frieden swooshed past for the gold.
Error at Torino doesn't wipe out Lindsey Jacobellis' cool 2009
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So it was for Nike, whose shares swooshed 9.2% lower Friday after it reported disappointing sales and gross margins Thursday evening.
Nike Loses Its Grip John Jannarone 2011
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The headlights swooshed into view, illuminating all the trees, houses, and the stop sign by which Stephanie stood, alert and waiting and . . . despondent.
Stephanie Consults Her Clipboard [Card #7: The Chariot (WORK-IN-PROGRESS — v.5)] Christopher Joseph Snyder 2012
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Jumping awkwardly down onto the lawn she laughed, ―Well then you can enter, like a vampire, and swooshed an imaginary cape.
Melancholy Wrecks Brentley Frazer 2012
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