Sentence examples for swaying from inspiring English sources

The setting could hardly have been more tranquil: rolling green hills, purple-glory trees, palm leaves swaying in the wind and a temporary chapel made of breeze block walls and a tin roof left partially open to the elements.

More so, perhaps, because the spotted orchids, standing rigidly upright among swaying fescues, crested dog's tail and Yorkshire fog grasses, were too numerous to count.

There's masses to do (should you feel the need) as well as space to idle the day away sipping on a fruit punch in the shade of a swaying palm.

All day they walk three paces apart from each other so they don't catch Ebola," said one Red Cross team worker staying at the hotel, gesturing at the crowd swaying body-to-body as Guinea's trademark reggae crackled through the loudspeakers.

Only moments earlier I had been jumping through the crashing waves with careless abandon, their swaying force catapulting me back to my childhood.

A young woman with a voice like a lark had the audience singing and swaying in unison (the lyrics of the song chorus: "Say 'no' to sodomy. No No No No No! No No No No No

Sri Lanka has golden beaches and swaying coconut palms in abundance, but some of the island's most beautiful stretches of coast were off-limits for decades, lying as they did in territory controlled by the Tamil Tigers.

Despite best efforts across the Isle of Wight, the Save Our Libraries Day was not as successful in swaying decision-making on the council as campaigners would have hoped.

This swaying places stress on the structure, and that has to be compensated for by a computer system that tweaks the pitch of the rotor blades to keep them facing in the right direction as the tower rocks and rolls to the rhythm of the waves.

But at some point extra storeys are no longer a good deal, since marginal costs for more lifts and extra steel to stop the building from swaying in the wind, for example—increase faster than marginal revenues (rents or sales).

I didn't know what to do, where to run…I got to my school and saw people laughing at me: I was swaying.