Used in a Sentence

swooping

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for swooping.

Editorial note

Instead being the vanguard of innovation, they're letting other companies validate the need for a service before swooping in.

Examples16
Definitions3
Parts of speech2

Quick take

The motion of something that swoops.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of swooping gathered in one view.

noun

The motion of something that swoops.

noun

A high-speed landing technique in skydiving.

adjective

That swoops or swoop.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for swooping.

noun

The motion of something that swoops.

noun

A high-speed landing technique in skydiving.

adjective

That swoops or swoop.

Example sentences

1

Instead being the vanguard of innovation, they're letting other companies validate the need for a service before swooping in.

2

Someone swooping in, doing the last 1% of the work, and making all the profit.

3

In 2-1/2 weeks the satellite was swooping to within a hair-raising 6 miles (9.7 km) of the lunar surface at closest approach.

4

It is funny to see commenters on online-forums swooping in with simplistic solutions.

5

On the other hand, swooping in, declaring a model flawed without actually identifying a single problem, and alluding to some unspecified alternate morality is a little silly.

6

I'm saying that the way to fix the issues associated with these areas isn't a white knight swooping in to save the poor colored kids; that.does.not.work.

7

Car makers had a sordid history of letting car dealers dip their toes in the water and then swooping in once the first unlucky souls had proven the viability of a market.

8

I'd be curious to see with Facebook's dedication to video, especially highlighted at F8, if they would consider swooping up Meerkat right now and offer distribution through their ecosystems.

9

What stops a new competitor from swooping in and saying they have something very similar, they aren't going to be spending anything supporting free customers, and with presumably lower costs, charging their customers less?

10

From a tech perspective, they've been running without interruption and they even used a drone, I think a helicopter, to take footage swooping over and around the protestors and police.

11

It was easygoing, I set my own roadmaps, and I had the freedom to contribute to struggling third-party dependencies as needed (I felt like an open source superman, swooping in).

12

If investigators were forced to immediately release their raw data from these studies, there would be armies of other investigators swooping in to scoop the original team on follow on studies from the data.

Quote examples

1

So I'm not sure if it's fair to characterize Amazon's position of being the first to market by many years as "swooping in".

2

Plus, Google does crawl your emails, any concern that if you consistently use "bad" keywords it might alert the Black Helicopters to come swooping down and nab you?

3

"Q&A", etc) which kept swooping in every time I scrolled up drove me utterly insane.

4

"What shareholders feared the most was the FCC swooping in to tell Internet providers what prices they could and couldn't charge to consumers — and the proposal currently doesn't call for that." Well, currently we don't actually know what the proposal calls for.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use swooping in a sentence?

Instead being the vanguard of innovation, they're letting other companies validate the need for a service before swooping in.

What does swooping mean?

The motion of something that swoops.

What part of speech is swooping?

swooping is commonly used as noun, adjective.