12 example sentences using swim.
Swim used in a sentence
Swim in a sentence as a noun
No one swims a gun, but no one swims to work either.
For me, there's nothing like swimming a 1500m or 3000m run.
Next week, I'm going to start swimming lessons - in my twenties!
Ubuntu will sink or swim on the merits of its leadership.
It really doesn’t work that way. In zoology, for example, we have penguins, birds that swim.
It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
Swim in a sentence as a verb
People in late stages of drowning can't swim toward you, but they certainly will grasp on to you when you reach out to rescue them.
"Underwater shock waves produced by the explosion stun the fish and cause their swim bladders to rupture.
"The question of whether machines can think... is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim"
Fooling people into mistaking a submarine for a whale doesn't show that submarines really swim; nor does it fail to establish the fact.
Maybe Elon Musk is the one-in-a-billion guy that can actually stay productive for 100+ hours, but thinking that's reason for you working 50+ hours is like saying you should be able to swim 100m in 70 seconds because they do it in less than 50 in the Olympics.
He has to fit into their revenue model, or swim against a tsunami to try to find an audience for a standalone web site, hoping to be one of the few people with outcomes like Louis CK.* Again, he says: the old system was better.
Swim definitions
the act of swimming; "it was the swimming they enjoyed most": "they took a short swim in the pool"
See also: swimming
travel through water; "We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore"; "a big fish was swimming in the tank"
be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
See also: float
be dizzy or giddy; "my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne"
be covered with or submerged in a liquid; "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy"
See also: drown
move as if gliding through water; "this snake swims through the soil where it lives"