Swooped is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Swooped in a sentence
Related words
Swooped meaning
simple past and past participle of swoop
Using Swooped
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of swoop
- In the example corpus, swooped often appears in combinations such as: swooped in, swooped on, swooped down.
Context around Swooped
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 6 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Swooped
- In this selection, "swooped" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ace, response, camera, down and away stand out and add context to how "swooped" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ace swooped in for and actionable intelligence swooped on an. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "swooped" sits close to words such as alder, aphasia and aspirational, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with swooped
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Phil Smith has swooped back in to town with Mary Jo Joiner. (12 words)
Ace swooped in for a super headscissors sending Myers tumbling out of the ring. (14 words)
Counter-terrorism police swooped to arrest the plotters after a surveillance operation with MI5. (14 words)
And the camera swooped around and I went up on the toes, and the guy holding the rope above me, he pulled it up a little higher and I was stuck on my toes - I had nowhere to go but down. (41 words)
He said,”On 23 August 2023, troops conducting anti oil theft operations, responding to actionable intelligence swooped on an illegal oil refinery site in the general area of Ogbokoko and Atu in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State. (40 words)
For more than six weeks, no arrests were made and no suspects named before law enforcement swooped on Mr Kohberger’s family home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, on 30 December and arrested him for the quadruple murders. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Ace swooped in for a super headscissors sending Myers tumbling out of the ring.
A huge emergency service response swooped down to the London-bound carriageway of the motorway at around 12.05am on Monday (July 17) following a two-car crash.
And the camera swooped around and I went up on the toes, and the guy holding the rope above me, he pulled it up a little higher and I was stuck on my toes - I had nowhere to go but down.
Arsenal swooped in with a £30m bid in recent weeks, which they have since upped.
Authorities swooped on the property on the Washington State University campus, in Pullman, just a few miles from the crime scene, and raided it for evidence after his arrest on December 30.
But in 1964 he was swooped away after several attempts by jazz legend Miles Davis to become part of Davis’ first big quintet.
Carlos Borges looked set to join West Ham but the club were understood to have reservations over the winger’s wage demands and Ajax have since swooped.
Chelsea had several bids for Caicedo rejected before Liverpool swooped in with their offer but the Ecuadorean decided to move to the west London club managed by Mauricio Pochettino.
Cops swooped in on an address on Croftfoot Crescent near the city's Castlemilk on Saturday, January 7 after receiving a tip-off from a member of the public.
Counter-terrorism police swooped to arrest the plotters after a surveillance operation with MI5.
During the emergency response earlier, injured victims were seen being carried from the mall before a special dispatch team swooped to apprehend the teen gunman.
For more than six weeks, no arrests were made and no suspects named before law enforcement swooped on Mr Kohberger’s family home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, on 30 December and arrested him for the quadruple murders.
He said,”On 23 August 2023, troops conducting anti oil theft operations, responding to actionable intelligence swooped on an illegal oil refinery site in the general area of Ogbokoko and Atu in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State.
However he was spotted again on the estate at around 6pm when officers swooped in on him.
Industry experts also said at the time that M&Co had not attracted high street players such as Frasers, Next and Marks & Spencer who have recently swooped on bust retailers.
I was torn between options once again, but Doug swooped on the Sicilian cannoli (£6), as well as an espresso (£2.40) which helped me out a bit.
Merry swooped in to counter that Pippin had never actually done a hard day's work.
Muchadehama said, “The police were heavily armed with Ak47 rifles, truncheons and other assortment of weapons swooped on the accused and arrested them in a dragnet style.
Phil Smith has swooped back in to town with Mary Jo Joiner.
Police in Doncaster have swooped to seize a battered vehicle used in a number of fuel thefts.
Common combinations with swooped
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- swooped in 39×
- swooped on 28×
- swooped down 8×
- police swooped 7×
- swooped to 6×
- officers swooped 4×
- have swooped 4×
- they swooped 4×
- cops swooped 3×
- and swooped 3×