swayed
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- unswayed adjective
Etymology
Origin of swayed
Example Sentences
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Duane sighed, looking up a gentle slope densely dotted in puffs of white hair balls that swayed in the breeze.
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The miller swayed and his sons gathered around him.
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Due to this, the CPS, which "must not be swayed by feeling or emotion", accepted his pleas, she said.
From BBC
But everyone assumes it was their sparkling insight that swayed the president.
"It appeared that the suspect was in female clothes yesterday, but again, that's nothing that had swayed the investigation, one way or another."
From BBC
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