Word Finder - sway

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The act of swaying; a swaying motion; a swing or sweep of a weapon.

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A rocking or swinging motion.

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The old song caused a little sway in everyone in the room.

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Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side

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I doubt I'll hold much sway with someone so powerful.

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Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.

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Rule; dominion; control; power.

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A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.

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The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's lateral motion.

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To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward; to rock.

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sway to the music;  The trees swayed in the breeze.

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To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield.

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to sway the sceptre

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To influence or direct by power, authority, persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide. Compare persuade.

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Do you think you can sway their decision?

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To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp.

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reeds swayed by the wind;  judgment swayed by passion

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To hoist (a mast or yard) into position.

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to sway up the yards

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To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.

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To have weight or influence.

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To bear sway; to rule; to govern.

The horses' croups began to sway in the front line.

The sun shines, warm breezes sway the trees.

She held no sway in what happened or played no larger part in their twisted doings.

These were motionless at first, but soon began to flicker more brightly and to sway slowly from side to side and then up and down.

It was thus natural, for these reasons, that the conquest of the Holy Land should gradually become an object for the ambition of Western Christianity - an object which the papacy, eager to realize its dream of a universal Church subject to its sway, would naturally cherish and attempt to advance.

Do not sway to the music, tap your feet or whistle a merry tune.

It has been a juxtaposition of separate and generally hostile peoples in territories bound under one rule by the military sway of a dominant race.

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And there were the eggs, forever barring him from the Kingdom which he had ruled so long with absolute sway !

Unaccustomed to emotions he wasn't able to control, he watched her hips sway but stayed where he was.

The full meaning of the change which had come over Venetian architecture, of the gulf which lies between the early Lombardesque style, so purely characteristic of Venice, and the fully developed classical revival, which now assumed undisputed sway, may best be grasped by comparing the old and the new Procuratie.

The national restoration of the Sasanides brought new life to the Zoroastrian religion and long-lasting sway to the Church.

His work consisted largely in organizing the Christian societies which he found in existence on his arrival, and in planting the faith in regions such as the extreme west of Connaught which had not yet come under the sway of the gospel.

It eventually passed under the sway of the rulers of Khwarizm (Khiva).

What effect again in the lands of the West which fell under the sway of Rome?

He must be the man to help sway public opinion in Britain.

Thus, world opinion will sway to the side of the victimized people.

If this doesn't sway you, you'll reap the benefits of great heat conduction and a low price.

This was a general history of the world, or rather of those portions of it which came under the sway of Alexander and his successors.

He was by far the most important ruler of the time, and the peoples under his direct sway were still adherents of the old faith.

In 1230 Theodore of Epirus, who had conquered Albania, Great Walachia and Macedonia, was overthrown at Klokotnitza by Ivan Asen II., the greatest of Bulgarian monarchs (1218-1241), who defeated Baldwin at Adrianople and extended his sway over most of the Peninsula.

They are most numerous in Upper Senegal and in the countries under French sway immediately south of Senegambia, notably Futa Jallon.

Originally herdsmen in the western and central Sudan, they extended their sway east of the Niger, under the leadership of Othman Dan Fodio, during the early years of the 19th century, and having subdued the Hausa states, founded the empire of Sokoto with the vassal emirates of Kano, Gando, Nupe, Adamawa, &c.

In 968 it became the seat of an archbishop, who exercised sway over an extensive territory.

His long reign (1058-1093), and his second marriage (1068) with Margaret, sister of Edgar ZEtheling, of the ancient English royal blood - dispossessed by the Norman Conqueror - intensified the sway of English ideas in Scotland, and increased the prepotency of the English element in political, social and ecclesiastical affairs.

They aggrandized themselves at the expense of the Macleans, Macdonalds, Camerons and Clan Chattan, but their sway was far from being peaceful and orderly.

Few teachers ever held such sway as Abelard now did for a time.

For some individuals, this may be enough of a financial obstacle to sway them against solar power.

The branches and twigs are very thin, almost rope-like, and sway in even light wind.

These negative perceptions are likely to sway consumers.

He gradually regained sway over the various cities of the Argive confederacy, the members of which had become practically independent, and (in the words of Ephorus) "reunited the broken fragments of the inheritance of Temenus."

It joined the Lombard league, and was independent after the peace of Constance (1183) until in 1339 it came under the Venetian sway.

Some passed under the sway of Persia, others preserved their freedom at the expense of their neighbours.

Under his sway the town was modernized and developed, but the finances were badly administered, and Fazy became more and more a radical dictator.

Thus the Gnostic systems make great use of the idea of a fall of the Deity himself; by the fall of the Godhead into the world of matter, this matter, previously insensible, is animated into life and activity, and then arise the powers, both partly and wholly hostile, who hold sway over this world.

When the first Moteuczoma was crowned king of the Aztecs, the Mexican sway extended far beyond the valley plateau of its origin, and the gods of conquered nations around had their shrines set up in Tenochtitlan in manifest inferiority to the temple of Huitzilopochtli, the war-god of the Aztec conquerors.

While the prairie tribes of America lived under the loose sway of chiefs and councils of old men, the settled nations of Mexico had attained to a highly organized government.

In the early 5th century Halicarnassus was under the sway of Artemisia, who made herself famous at the battle of Salamis.

At the conclusion of the Greek War of Independence, in 1830, the island was delivered from the Turkish sway, and constituted a part of the newly established Greek state.

The popes were under the constant sway of two contrary influences - on the one hand, the seducing prospect of subduing the Eastern Church and triumphing over the schism, and, on the other, the apprehension of seeing the Normans of Sicily, their competitors in Italy, increasing their already formidable power by successful expeditions into the Balkan Peninsula.

By his mild and just rule he was soon enabled to establish his sway over an immense territory.

Ermeland was originally one of the eleven districts of old Prussia and was occupied by the Teutonic Knights (Deutscher Orden), being made in 1250 one of the four bishoprics of the country under their sway.

About the middle of the;century Magadha passed under the sway of the Pal kings of Bengal.

To the west the Lech still divided Bavaria from Swabia, but on three Area of other sides the opportunities for extension had been securing Lower Bavaria for himself, united the whole of the duchy under his sway.

On the following day the king, seated on the topmost step of a lofty tribune surmounted by a baldaquin, erected in the midst of the principal square of Copenhagen, received the public homage of his subjects of all ranks, in the presence of an immense concourse, on which occasion he again promised to rule " as a Christian hereditary king and gracious master," and, " as soon as possible, to prepare and set up " such a constitution as should secure to his subjects a Christian and indulgent sway.

Alexander the Great placed Phrygia under the command of Antigonus, who retained it when the empire was broken up. When Antigonus was defeated and slain, at the decisive battle of Ipsus, Phrygia came under the sway of Seleucus.

The Trucial chiefs of the Arabian coast hold sway between the peninsulas of Musandam and Qatar.

Even during the period that the Assyrian monarchs exercised complete sway over the south, they rested their claims to the control of Babylonia on the approval of Marduk, and they or their representatives never failed to perform the ceremony of "taking the hand" of Marduk, which was the formal method of assuming the throne in Babylonia.

Herod the Great enlarged his borders and fostered the Greek civilization of the cities under his sway.

In 1527, after a strenuous resistance, the fort was captured by Baber and with the surrounding country passed under the sway of the Moguls, being included by Akbar in the province of Agra.