Sentence examples for being able to swing from inspiring English sources

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"Not being able to swing my arms slows down my cadence, and I can't get in a rhythm," said Ms. LaBarca, who has twice qualified for the Boston Marathon.

"There are places along Seneca Lake where there are multimillion-dollar homes," said Mr. Breinlinger, a freelance artist, "but affordability had a big factor to do with getting this place — being able to swing it".

In the case of a potential takeover, if the takeover arbitrageurs buy up (say) 30% of the shares of the company in anticipation of making a quick buck by pressuring or forcing the company to agree to be taken over, instead of being able to swing 30% of the vote, they might be able to swing 3% of the float.

Maybe it'll soon be fine to say you prefer the virtual to the real, and having a good attention span will mean being able to swing from object to object like Tarzan with his vines (by which I don't mean the six-second videos on Twitter).

"He has the skill, which he has more recently acquired, of being able to swing the ball both ways with complete disguise, and his outswinger pushes in to swing out.

"The idea of someone as neat and tidy as Bob being able to swing out a raunchy sax came easily, and I ran 'True or false: Bob Holness played sax on Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street?' for one night". And Ravenscroft himself also says he came up with the idea.

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Both are able to swing the ball sharply each way.

Someday, I thought, I'd be able to swing it.

But the Islanders were able to swing the momentum back their way.

Both come across as versatile actors who are able to swing between antics and dramatic effect.

"Hopefully he's able to swing before the weekend's over".

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