Sentence examples for I swivel from inspiring English sources
I swivel my hips and point my toe at an angle to complete an ocho, or figure eight.
But one of the rotary beaters of the electric mixer refuses to stay in its socket; it keeps falling out, no matter how I swivel it.
I swivel my head to look behind me and overhead, where the white sky is obscured by the dark underbelly of a monstrous alien, trudging across the glacier, oblivious to my tiny form.
Otherwise, I use a stalling technique — asking about the weather with the flight attendant stationed at the front of the aircraft — and while he or she is giving me details of the winds aloft and so forth, I swivel my head toward the pilots, looking for telltale signs.
If I swivel 90 degrees, I can see the production crew hoisting cameras and running power cords behind the stage.
When other diggers' metres yielded unique treasures, I swivelled my head in the steamy heat and jealously eyed their progress.
Like a seasoned spy, I'd swivel my head to and fro, checking for suspicious motorists, generally those of the law-enforcement variety.
While I'm speaking, he rises to his feet and pads over to the other side of the room to fetch a carafe of water, then takes his time about coming back so that I have to swivel round awkwardly to face him while I finish my question.
"Wow," I say, swivelling madly.
I keep swivelling round on the chair, which has lost its arm somewhere, to look out of the window - I can just glimpse Keats House, where my grandmother was born, and the hideous 60s block of the Royal Free Hospital, where both my parents spent their last days before they died.
