Verb (used without object) : eyes swimming with tears. ,My head began to swim. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to swim a lake. ,to swim a sidestroke. From Dictionary.com.
This may be swum in either two, four, six, or eight beats. From Wordnik.com. [Swimming Scientifically Taught A Practical Manual for Young and Old] Reference
What happened to the years swum by biddydum down the drains?. From Wordnik.com. [At a Welsh Wedding] Reference
The horses were then driven into the stream and swum across. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
Two mile good that feller swum, and saved his kit and musket. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference
The milk of approval had swum into and covered over for looks. From Wordnik.com. [American Papyrus: 25 Poems] Reference
The shallow streams he has forded, the deep rivers he has swum. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
How many times, surrounded by his friends, he had swum in the moonlight. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference
Roanne had swum in those waters that called to her and Michelle. From Wordnik.com. [Eviction] Reference
Meanwhile the Shan had swum quietly ashore and walked up to the rest-house. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Haydon's Quest] Reference
Swan swam over the sea; swim, swan, swim; Swan swam back again; well swum, Swan. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainments for Home, Church and School] Reference
In making the perilous journey they had swum across the river seventy-four times. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
No, he had not seen sirens, but for three days a dolphin had swum in the yacht's wake. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"I'll bet four dollars an 'a match he's swum down th' river just to have th 'laugh on us.". From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
Even now I see him coming; the shallow streams he has forded; the deep rivers he has swum. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian] Reference
But whether Posh fished with "sunk" or "swum" nets his luck was out for the season of 1867. From Wordnik.com. [Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants"] Reference
Last week she cut 13 seconds off her best '96 time, swum just last month, to win a gold medal. From Wordnik.com. [Pool Sharks] Reference
I believe you could train her to work with you, though I have never swum in the tank with her. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Strong, the Boy Fish or Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank] Reference
When he see that he jist gethered up his kit and jumped into the water, and swum for dear life. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference
I then swum round and pushed that 'ere thing afore me, until I had got it high and dry on a sandbar. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
The difference between "sunk" and "swum" herring nets would be unintelligible to a modern herring fisher. From Wordnik.com. [Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants"] Reference
I supposed he must have swum the straits; though what should bring any creature to Earraid, was more than. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
It throwed me out in the middle of the river, and I'd 'a drownded sure, only Fred, he swum out and saved me. From Wordnik.com. [Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School] Reference
They clung to the sides of the shell, swum round it, or climbed up to rest themselves on its crinkled edges. From Wordnik.com. [Soap-Bubble Stories For Children] Reference
From the instant they had driven through the automatic garage door, Brion had swum in this miasma of defeat. From Wordnik.com. [Planet of the Damned] Reference
It can only have been a few yards across, but I remember feeling almost as tired as if I had swum the Channel. From Wordnik.com. ['Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany] Reference
He could easily trace the king till he came to the banks of the river, and then he saw he had plunged in and swum over. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian] Reference
Straits of Magellan; had swum with the Navigators 'Islanders, shot buffalo, hunted chamois, and lunched on mangosteens at Penang. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
He had played under these trees as a happy boy, swum in these clear waves -- but the memories of the past must not detain him now. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
He had swum a dozen yards or so when it suddenly occurred to him that he might swim and swim, and never find the Princess Mary Radiant. From Wordnik.com. [More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme] Reference
I'd been shot at, an 'hit twice; been knocked overboard, an' swum under the dock -- 'most froze an' stiff with ice before I could get out. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
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