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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151. The "families" are the basic units, each holding sway over a recognised territory.
152. When facing foes more threatening than a typical tribesman, a rejkar commands any minions it has under its sway to attack, inflaming their battle lust with magic.
153. The lateral sway has less effects on the maximum sinkage, if the location of the UAV is appropriate, the launch is safe.
154. The beliefs which now hold sway may one day be rejected.
155. The court's OId Testament ruling - an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth - has sparked controversy even in Iran where medieval justice still holds sway.
156. It was thereabouts that Feringhea, the Thuggee chief , king of the stranglers , held his sway .
157. This vocal disgruntlement is one factor that may sway public opinion about the war.
158. In her book Stop Smiling, Start Kvetching, Held wages war against the "tyranny of the positive attitude," the put-on-a-happy-face mind-set, which she believes holds too much sway in American culture.
159. Curtain antependium often has tender feelings principle most. Sway gently, slowly and the charming be ashamed that move, elegant match colors is like cantabile andante , romance is sweet.
160. Finally these pass away, and the perceiving consciousness has full sway.
161. Criminals have unprecedented sway, Naim said, because of “the criminalization of politics and the politicization of crime.
162. Put him on his rocker or sway him gently and it will make him forget all about his fussiness.
163. "(The $99 iPhone) is not going to cannibalize other smartphones," said Gelblum, adding that a $100 price cut won't sway people who want the latest smartphone.
164. She had a harsh and domineering mother who sacrificed everything to a touchy animal pride and had long held sway over her weak-minded daughter.
165. A fixing baffle plate is provided above two ends of the top of a rubber chamber to restrict the rubber chamber to move up and a vertical angle stand-wedge to sway over or move up too.
166. In this wise did the excitement of the pursuit of English literature come to sway the heart of the youth of our time, and at mine the waves of this excitement kept beating from every side.
167. The earthquake caused the wall to sway to the right.
168. The toolmaking observation was the most epochal of the three, causing a furor within anthropological circles because "man the toolmaker" held sway as an almost canonical definition of our species.
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169. Battleground states are also known as sway states or purple states.
170. The earthquake caused the wall to sway to the left.
171. And I have tried to the Pythagorean 7 power by which number holds sway above the flux.
172. Your body must not sway to the left during the downswing.
173. Today Taliban insurgents again hold sway over much of the Kandahar countryside.
174. A gust of wind blowing, flowers sway gently, like a ballet skirt wearing elf dance in the bright, like stars in the sky beckoning to me.
175. Sloping backline roach or sway back, flat or steep croup to be faulted.
176. Under the sway of hunger, the shy deer appeared in the farmer's yard.
177. Looking inside the breakwater of port is very desolate, only a few small fishing boats along with more Zhi Long Ping that private vapor boat and speed boat being luxurious sway aweather.
178. And this takes effort and luck. While the best friends are those higher-up, don't underestimate the sway of lesser mortals.
179. In very truth gold is god today and rules with pitiless sway in the affairs of men.
180. The sway of the branches became faster as the wind increased.