Word Finder - swayed

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To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward; to rock.

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sway to the music;  The trees swayed in the breeze.

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To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield.

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to sway the sceptre

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To influence or direct by power, authority, persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide. Compare persuade.

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Do you think you can sway their decision?

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To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp.

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reeds swayed by the wind;  judgment swayed by passion

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To hoist (a mast or yard) into position.

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to sway up the yards

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To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.

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To have weight or influence.

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To bear sway; to rule; to govern.

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Bent backwards, as in swayback

Can he be swayed in our favor?

His tall frame swayed across the room with feline grace.

His broad shoulders swayed with the swing of his stride.

As the train rumbled by, the trestle shook and swayed until I thought we should be dashed to the chasm below.

The tall youth moved his lips and swayed from side to side.

That curly grass which always grows by country roadsides became clearly visible, still wet with the night's rain; the drooping branches of the birches, also wet, swayed in the wind and flung down bright drops of water to one side.

Alpatych swayed his head and went upstairs.

The French who had thrown themselves into houses, copses, &c., picked off the officers, and the flanks of the long Prussian lines swayed and got into confusion.

Yet he affirms, as we said before, that his intention was never swayed by a bribe; and so far as any of these cases can be traced, his decisions, often given in conjunction with some other official, are to all appearance thoroughly just.

Accustomed freely and fearlessly to investigate whatever came before him, and swayed by a scrupulous dread of insincerity, he was doomed to long and anxious hesitation concerning some of the fundamental points of theology before arriving at a firm conviction of the truth of Christianity.

In religious matters Frederick William was also largely swayed by his love for the ancient and picturesque.

When Dom Pedro left Brazil for the purpose of making a tour through Europe and the United States he appointed Princess Isabella to act as regent, and she showed herself so swayed in political questions by Church influence that Liberal feeling became more and more anti-dynastic. Another incident which gave strength to the opposition was the sudden abolition of slavery without any compensation to slave-owners.

The enthusiasm for a life of holiness and separation from the world no longer swayed all minds.

While most of the "Broad Churchmen" were influenced by ethical and emotional considerations in their repudiation of the dogma of everlasting torment, he was swayed by purely intellectual and theological arguments, and in questions of a more general liberty he often opposed the proposed Liberal theologians, though he as often took their side if he saw them hard pressed.

It is true that he is sometimes swayed by prejudice, but this is the common lot of great historians; they cannot altogether avoid sharing in the feelings of the past, for they live in it, and Freeman did so to an extraordinary degree.

Even the barbarian courts, their neighbours or vassals, were swayed by the dominant fashion to imitation.

Buddhism, which swayed Korea from the 10th to the 14th century, has been discredited for three centuries, and its priests are ignorant, immoral and despised.

His regular visits to Oxford kept him in intercourse with his old friends in Oriel common room, and made him familiar with the currents of feeling which swayed the university.

While in opposition his mind was swayed to and fro with conflicting emotions of dislike to the head of the ministry and of desire to share in the spoils of office.

Before this could be accomplished Chatham's mind became impaired, and Townshend, who was the most determined and influential of his colleagues, swayed the ministry as he liked, pledging himself to find a revenue in America with which to meet the deficiency caused by the reduction in the land tax.

They swayed backwards and forwards between the power of the people and the power of the few; but democracy and oligarchy passed sooner or later into the hands of a master who veiled his lordship under various titles, and generally at last into the hands of a family.

As an educational reformer, as a man of letters and learning, who trod "the large and impartial ways of knowledge," and who swayed others to the same paths, as a thinker influential alike in the action and the reaction to which he led, Cousin stands out conspicuously among the memorable Frenchmen of the 29th century.

The new king at Paris was a young boy, whose councils were swayed by a knot of quarrelsome and selfish uncles; the vigour of the attack on England began to slacken.

But the leading men among the baronage were undoubtedly swayed by ambition and resentment, by family ties and family feuds, far more than by enlightened statesmanship or zeal for the king or the commonweal.

Any tendency to listen to liberal counsels was denounced by them as weakness and met by demands for the restoration of the Inquisition and by the organization of absolutist demonstrations, and even revolts, such as that which broke out in Catalonia in 1828, organized by the supreme junta set up at Manresa, with the object of freeing the king from the disguised Liberals who swayed him.

His condo swayed in the harsh winds of the latest storm spawned from the massive depression in the Gulf.

She wondered what had swayed him to turn against Tiyan and how far he had already gone.

People allow their views to be swayed by their party allegiance.

Scotland has not been swayed by the homophobic bigotry of Cardinal Winning, Brian Souter or Jack Irvine.

He doesn't strike me or anyone as the sort of character who can be swayed by mere flattery.

The breeze from the Bay of Bengal was bracing, the sun glistened off the azure ocean and the palm fronds swayed.

But they were more swayed by the party whips and not rebellious enough to throw out the bill.

Even tho these efforts may not have swayed the undecided senators, it certainly did help to plant seeds of doubt about the Treaty.

With care Henley could have swayed his wife toward his own beliefs, no doubt, but he lacks tact.

About the middle of the 19th century it began to be recognized that the education of the people was more conducive to the safety of the fortress than to leave in ignorance congested masses of southern race liable to be swayed spasmodically by prejudice.

The policy of the states of Holland swayed the policy of the generality, and historical circumstances decreed that the policy of the states of Holland during long and critical periods should be controlled by a succession of remarkable men filling the office of grand pensionary.

It was held that the system of Apollinaris was really Docetism (see Docetae), that if the Godhood without constraint swayed the manhood there was no possibility of real human probation or of real advance in Christ's manhood.

The same disk carries the index arm, which is rigidly fixed to it and indicates the weight and value of the goods, and also carries the pendulum, which is rigidly attached to it, and regulates the position of the index arm according to the position which it takes up and the leverage which it exerts when swayed out of the vertical position by the action of the lever of the lever machine.

The tree swayed and strained.

By evening, the adjutants had spread it to all ends and parts of the army, and in the night from the nineteenth to the twentieth, the whole eighty thousand allied troops rose from their bivouacs to the hum of voices, and the army swayed and started in one enormous mass six miles long.

It swayed and fell, but caught on the muskets of the nearest soldiers.

The ice bore him but it swayed and creaked, and it was plain that it would give way not only under a cannon or a crowd, but very soon even under his weight alone.

The left side of the forest was dark in the shade, the right side glittered in the sunlight, wet and shiny and scarcely swayed by the breeze.

He spoke slowly in a loud voice and throwing out his chest slightly swayed one leg.

He swayed his head.

He sat heavily and swayed limply on his brisk little horse.

At the moment when Vereshchagin fell and the crowd closed in with savage yells and swayed about him, Rostopchin suddenly turned pale and, instead of going to the back entrance where his carriage awaited him, went with hurried steps and bent head, not knowing where and why, along the passage leading to the rooms on the ground floor.

To a man not swayed by passion that welfare is never certain, but he who commits such a crime always knows just where that welfare lies.

Petya's eyes began to close and he swayed a little.

He puckered his face, screwed up his eyes, and pensively swayed his head.