Synonym: affect, control, influence, lurch, move, persuade, pitch, prejudice, reel, rock, roll, rule, swing, toss. Similar words: swap, swag, swan, swathe, swath, swamp, swallow, swanky. Meaning: [sweɪ] n. 1. controlling influence 2. pitching dangerously to one side. v. 1. move back and forth or sideways 2. move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner 3. win approval or support for 4. cause to move back and forth.
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31. These arguments have yet to sway public opinion.
32. The sway of the platform grew more pronounced.
33. That boy had held such sway.
34. A light wind was making the branches sway.
35. The sway of the boat made passengers queasy.
36. I could not let my emotions sway my reporting.
37. Gothic art held sway, in general, for three centuries.
38. The same attitudes held sway in Vienna.
39. The old communist party still holds sway in many rural areas.
40. As the General still held sway over the twelve-man tribunal, the Colonel's successes turned out to be few in number.
41. Suddenly new possibilities are springing to life where previously deadlock and despair held sway.
42. The line weaves back and forth in the water, in sinister sway.
43. Ed's parents never tried to sway him, but they are happy with the decision he's made.
44. But even vaporized as the bond market is, it holds tremendous sway over our times.
45. It's a place for Comici's drop-of-water philosophy to hold sway.
46. That is why we feel justified in saying that Realism has held sway for the last forty years.
47. The wind howled dolefully, making the narrow boat sway and rock at her moorings.
48. The article silenced Diem, who had immediately surmised its source,[www.Sentencedict.com] but it did not sway Taylor.
49. The admission did little to sway Roswell investigators, who reject the Project Mogul explanation as just another cover story.
50. This of course benefits the income of the less expensive factor of production, as is inevitable when capital holds sway.
51. It is difficult to establish which of the two scientific theories could hold sway.
52. Above them, the branches of the oak tree were beginning to creak and sway.
53. While the band plays incidental music the recruits struggle not to sway to the tones of the well-known tunes.
54. Nineteenth-century forms and styles held sway until the 1920s when they were replaced by their horrendous antithesis - Functionalism.
55. Mechanical power still held sway, power transmitted through gears and belts, power that clacked and whirred, hammered and hissed.
56. This was the traditional view which held sway for many years.
57. Not surprisingly, the publication of the Charter did not sway the western democracies.
58. This all happened long ago, when priests held sway over the majority of the Irish people.
59. Here, attempts to bossa nova merely produced a self-conscious lateral sway.
60. At one time I didn't let emotions sway me but now I tend to cry easily.