Joe Lycett

I've developed a fun text when a friend has just had a baby. I ask a classic question: 'Are you sleeping?' The reply is inevitably that they aren't, they're getting a few hours here and there, they're exhausted. It's then when I swoop in: 'It'll all be worth it when they're softly stroking your hair as you slip into oblivion.

British Comedian

Kevin Brady

It's just wrong to work your whole life to build up a nest egg, build your own business - you pass away, and Uncle Sam can swoop in and take away nearly half of everything you've earned. Can you imagine that? Having to sell off most of your land just to keep it from the government, just to save the house.

American Politician

Tom Ford

My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. She'd swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great.

American Designer

Teju Cole

Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and imagined that, were they ever to indulge in such speculation, the high-rises might seem to them like firs massed in a grove.

Nigerian Writer

Joe Shuster

He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop down, and at that point he would look like he was flying, I suppose. It was just natural to draw him like that.

Canadian Artist

Oscar Niemeyer

Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.

Brazilian Architect

Angela Rayner

Maintenance grants, a proud Labour achievement which made it easier for children from lower and middle income families to go to university, have been abolished in one fell swoop. To be replaced with loans.

British Politician

Dave Eggers

When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.

American Writer

Paul Hawken

Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than our own.

American Environmentalist

Joan Collins

I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi.

American Actress

Use 'swoop' to describe rapid downward movements, often by birds or planes.

Sudden Descent

'Swoop' implies an intense, focused action that targets something specific.

Action Intensity

Describes a surprising action of taking something, suggesting stealth or swiftness.

Unexpected Theft

Can express an opportunistic, fast move to obtain or secure something desired.

Quick Acquisition

Emphasizes the swift and often smooth motion, usually carried out with finesse.

Describes Motion

Ideal for creating a vivid mental image of a swift, swooping action often seen in nature.

Visual Imagery

Often used when describing a successful, sometimes unexpected, action or move.

Surprise Element

Implies a thought-out, sudden move towards a specific goal or objective.

Strategic Action

Specific to describing quick, decisive police or military actions.

Law Enforcement

Implies a surprise element, typically without prior notice to those targeted.

Without Warning

 and four times he pulled back in fear. Humble Nanahuatl stepped forward. The other gods painted him chalky white and glued feathers to him. Without hesitation, he threw himself into the flames. A fire-blackened eagle swooped over the fire, grabbed Nanahuatl and carried him into the sky.

The Aztec myth of the...

 His battle cries and the clang of weapons echoed throughout the underworld. Sensing a disturbance, the ten Death Lords swooped upon him. But they had never met such resistance from a mortal soul. What was this unusual creature? And was he a mortal, a god— or something else?

How the Monkey King...

 called an fpv drone that can fly in between the trees through tiny little gaps they can fly almost in limitless ways you can fly them right up and then swoop back down around around trees there's nothing else that you can use to get these kind of shots so it makes them

Filming the Impossible...

 so it's a very interesting time I'm not as pessimistic as I was coming in because I know that in spite of the fact there are challenges right we're going to just take them all out in one fell swoop across that linear time that's super insightful as an outsider

Embracing the challenges...

 and on occasion, it can be somewhat patronizing for scientists to swoop in and tell a family what they need to change in order for their child to succeed. So I want to share an idea with you. What if we tried to help young children in poverty

How does income affect...

 The election comes around, but before the results can be certified a third party candidate swoops in and burns the treefellow to a crisp. The freshly signed and deeply flawed constitution mandates that this challenger

Can you solve the...

 of the largest Hawk species in the world the vertebra wastes no time it swoops right in to make a quick meal out of the snake the rattler is instantly andar it sounds its trademark warning signal

Red-Tailed Hawk vs....

 and blinking lights that don't stop even when the patient's life has. Cleaning crew swoops in, the body's whisked away, and it all feels as though that person had never really existed.

What really matters at...

 catering one of the largest feeding frenzies in the world. Sharks make the guest list. Hundreds of copper sharks swooping through a dense oily cloud of fish.

Sardine Feeding Frenzy PIPE...

 it's one of the largest Hawk species in the world the bird of prey wastes no time it swoops right in to make a quick meal out