Crossword-Solution: SWAY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sway | v. i. | To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter. |
| Sway | v. i. | To influence or direct by power and authority; by persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide. |
| Sway | v. i. | To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp; as, reeds swayed by wind; judgment swayed by passion. |
| Sway | v. i. | To hoist; as, to sway up the yards. |
| Sway | v. i. | To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline. |
| Sway | v. i. | To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward. |
| Sway | v. i. | To have weight or influence. |
| Sway | v. i. | To bear sway; to rule; to govern. |
| Sway | n. | The act of swaying; a swaying motion; the swing or sweep of a weapon. |
| Sway | n. | Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side; as, the sway of desires. |
| Sway | n. | Preponderance; turn or cast of balance. |
| Sway | n. | Rule; dominion; control. |
| Sway | n. | A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SWAY | anagram | WAYS, YAWS |
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Sentences with SWAY (5)
Thine now is all this World, thy vertue hath won What thy hands builded not, thy Wisdom gain’d With odds what Warr hath lost, and fully aveng’d Our foile in Heav’n; here thou shalt Monarch reign, There didst not; there let him still Victor sway, As Battel hath adjudg’d, from this new World Retiring, by his own doom alienated, And henceforth Monarchie with thee divide Of all things, parted by th’ Empyreal bounds, His Quadrature, from thy Orbicular World, Or trie thee now more dang’rous to his Throne.
Certain it is, the place still continues under the sway of some witching power, that holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to walk in a continual reverie.
Judaea now and all the Promised Land, Reduced a province under Roman yoke, Obeys Tiberius, nor is always ruled With temperate sway: oft have they violated 160 The Temple, oft the Law, with foul affronts, Abominations rather, as did once Antiochus.
Into their place stepped free competition, accompanied by a social and political constitution adapted to it, and by the economical and political sway of the bourgeois class.
With the others he read of all that I had done within the circle of the Otz Mountains where the Holy Therns and the First Born had held sway.
Quotes with SWAY (3)
Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.
Call it the Human Mission-to be all and do all God sent us here to do. And notice-the mission to be fruitful and conquer and hold sway is given both to Adam and to Eve. 'And God said to them...' Eve is standing right there when God gives the world over to us. She has a vital role to play; she is a partner in this great adventure. All that human beings were intended to do here on earth-all the creativity and exploration, all the battle and rescue and nurture-we were intended t…
There are gigantic trees that have grown tall into the winds and the clouds over the thousands of years of their lives, their tops are rustled and tossed by the mists of the atmosphere! Then there are the short trees that don't live for long, they are young with no deep roots and only a few annual rings to tell their stories. The tall, ancient trees sway in the realm of freedom while the short young trees cannot even raise their branches into that direction of the sky! Now, y…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 279 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).