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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61. Local boards, with less power than municipalities, held sway over smaller towns.
62. Without influence in Delhi or among the Tamils she was powerless to sway events.
63. Similarly, the concepts of the division of labour and organisation through specialisation still hold sway within many organisations.
64. The Chief Constable said it was clear hard-liners now held sway within the republican movement.
65. Confounding the king's enemies by slipping ghost-like through these arid wastes as once our ancestors held sway over the high seas.
66. No one has more sway with Congress than the media.
67. The Marsh End at that time had at least two moles who held sway in their different ways over moles of their generation.
68. Palm trees sway on the backs of countless cotton shirts.
69. Others said they have already decided who will get their vote, and the vice presidential selection will not sway their opinion.
70. Roebling had made it impossible for his bridge to sway or twist in the wind.
71. With the arrival of self-made tycoons such as Stagecoach's Brian Souter, the sway of the old elite may be diminishing.
72. One might think that the business interests would have more sway, but the results suggest otherwise.
73. His reputedly Herculean virility long remained a byword throughout the district over which he held sway.
74. He stood and looked at them sway, feeling a unity with them as his body swayed to the same light breeze.
75. Each regime claimed sway over the entire peninsula; these claims persist today.
76. Six rows of horn players and drummers clap, play and sway from side to side in accompaniment.
77. At last the wheel stops and we swing and sway like a pendulum above the seething fairground.
78. That romantic notion held sway over me, and probably delayed my perception of Clarisa as some one with a medical problem.
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79. The dappled night shadows, the inky blue trees sway lightly in the breeze.
80. For a moment it seemed that he would sway back out into the sky and plunge to the river below.
81. Fulfilled happiness, like the circle, leaves no ends dangling to sway in our dreams, waking or night-time.
82. The greatest designers can sway with the prevailing mood of the moment, but remain fundamentally true to their own spirit.
83. But, again, he failed to sway the jury, which returned a first-degree murder verdict.
84. Pearson searches for the period when such a stable, traditional way of life supposedly held sway.
85. She knew that in prison time no longer holds the same sway as in the free world outside.
86. The game afoot has gone way beyond technology into the realm of perception, where Microsoft Corp holds almost total sway.
87. And the sway of unchecked guns should not be underestimated.
88. On Monday afternoon and evening Toby once again enjoyed undisputed sway in the boarding annexe of Burleigh.
89. Nearly 10 years later, she still holds sway on Wall Street.
90. Let every body hair sway.