Ellen Gallagher

My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world.

American Artist

Rumaan Alam

Is deciding what you like an instinct, a sense that arrives as swiftly as my autoimmune response to cat dander? Or is it the result of reasoned consideration, the way wine tasters swish pinot noir around in their mouths, spit it out, and reach for complex metaphors about chocolate and tobacco?

American Author

Janet Mock

Toughening up, performing masculinity, pretending to enjoy things I didn't enjoy all enabled me to dodge the gender policing of the adults around me. But the way I really was - the swished hips, the Double-Dutching, the hair flips - seemed to always prevail and attract Dad's disdain.

American Writer

Steve Rushin

Swish: A made basket. Swoosh: The Nike logo. Swish-swoosh, swish-swoosh, swish-swoosh: A thousand coaches in nylon tracksuits, walking through hotel lobbies at the Final Four.

American Journalist

John Dickerson

The locker rooms that Donald Trump is in are not at the cut-rate gym with the broken treadmills - they are at his swish golf clubs. They are places of stature.

Stephanie Ruhle

Since leaving DB, I have participated in many conferences and swish events that other financial institutions have held for their women's groups.

Princess Anne

When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.

British Royalty

Lady Amelia Windsor

There is nothing better than leaving a salon with freshly cut hair, swishing it about proudly all the way home.

English Model

Use 'swish' to describe the sound made by fast, smooth movements, like something cutting the air.

Action Sound

'Swish' emphasizes the gracefulness of movement, often with an element of speed involved.

Movement Emphasis

'Swish' is onomatopoeic, meaning it imitates the sound associated with the action it describes.

Onomatopoeic Usage

Use 'swish' as a noun to vividly describe specific swooshing sounds in your storytelling or descriptions.

Describing Sounds

The noun 'swish' is perfect to describe the sounds of nature, like trees or grass moving in the wind.

Nature's Movements

As an adjective, 'swish' suggests something is upscale and sophisticated, often associated with luxury.

Implying Luxury

'Swish' highlights fashionable elegance in clothing and style choices.

Fashionable Context

'Swish' as a verb can be used to talk about mixing or stirring liquids.

Mixing Action

In basketball, 'swish' is used to describe a perfect shot; it's a jargon specific to the sport.

Basketball Term

When used as an adjective, 'swish' indicates something that symbolizes wealth or high social status.

Status Symbol

 of research that I did was looking at washing our clothes and most of you sat here in the audience a day I'm sorry but you're wearing plastic this could be polyester acrylic or polyester cotton blend in the mechanical nature of the washing machine where our clothes are swishing and swirling around tiny fibers

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 they also swish their tail in anger each other so we can always tell by watching one squirrel if another squirrels around by the way it just stares into the forest and sort of glares that they intruder coming in to steal its food they mark scent mark the trees with the

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 So, pushing past them with your gigantic body is easy, but if you were really small, say you were about the size of a water molecule, all of a sudden, it's like you're swimming in a pool of people. Rather than simply swishing by all the teeny, tiny molecules,

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 doesn't diminish their numbers he says the best place for us to look is in the canals and the goons around the island to find the first species of mega fish on my list the best technique is listening these giants make a distinctive swishing sound in the water

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 wonder if the cheetah ate off we had another encounter with people we thought it was gonna be quite dangerous but it turned out ok I wonder if they do that as well now I'm taking all said and we have to lock all what I walk swish you really

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 In Sweden, essentially everybody uses electronic forms of payments, either a card or app on their phone that they can swish through or things of that nature, consumer payments I'm talking about. Even public toilets on the street in Sweden

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 falling through the net with a gentle, satisfying swish. And the crowd exploded from their seats." See, we just slowed down time through our writing. The bottom line is there are moments in life that take longer than they actually take.

Slowing down time (in...

 just so in the tune clang clang clang clang the wipers on the bus go swish swish and who is this Lily knowing what it's done for Lily and how amazing and blessed we feel to have brought this plant into our lives and into our

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 now you'd see that tail swishing that's very common for the elephants to kind of keep tabs on where the other elephants are especially with the females with the

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 swishing her tail like that shows she's frustrated