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...forces of evil is the Horned King. His body is skeletal, his voice sepulchral, and his eyes glow red like coals. His aide-de-camp is a little green horror known appropriately as Creeper, and his castle is guarded by two pterodactyl-like birds, flapping, screeching, ever ready to swoop down and carry off the better elements populating this mythical kingdom. Eventually, the evil monarch and his minions find out from our friends where the long-hidden black cauldron lies and set loose upon the world the dreadful army of the dead it contains. "But Daddy," a million tiny voices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: PG Thrills in the Land of Legend: The Black Cauldron | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...Night has arrived at Harvard with a wave of acclamation more powerful than an exploding brewery tank of fine, smoked porter. In one fell swoop, it has solved a problem older than the dining hall sheet cake and tougher than the smoked duck. For years, Harvards social scene has been one of feast and famine. While upperclassmen gorged themselves on venues from Red Line to the occasional wildlife-themed, well-endowed social club, underclassmen were systematically denied their just deserts. Lokers resurrection has the potential to breathe life into a stratified Harvard social scene gripped by 300-year-long rigor...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Loker's Second Coming | 3/1/2005 | See Source »

...member of the league that has failed to bring home at least one championship banner, the Crimson has merely looked on as either Penn or Princeton has won every crown in the past 16 seasons. Harvard has reason to believe, however, that it can reverse history in one fell swoop this weekend and shake up the Ancient Eight...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Basketball Takes on Ivies' Best Duo | 2/4/2005 | See Source »

Lost yet another eBay auction as you hustled for holiday gifts? Had a buyer swoop in at the 11th hour with a winning bid? Don't get mad--get a snipe program. Sniping is slang for last-second bidding; an estimated 5% of eBay auctions end that way. At Web-based services such as eSnipe, PowerSnipe and Bidnapper, simply enter the maximum amount you are prepared to pay for an item, and the site takes care of the bidding, saving you time and improving your odds of victory. eSnipe offers a 14-day free trial; after that, you pay only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Last-Second Shopping | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...inexplicably lying atop the scorers’ table during an in-game skirmish, he flew into the stands and proceeded to carry out a sequence of events that will now be forever known as “Pulling a Ron Artest.” In one fell swoop, he proceeded to pummel a succession of drunken, painfully unathletic fans—a skinny guy and a fat guy, in fact—as an entire crowd of Motor City hooligans descended upon...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Different Approach To Class Day Speaker | 12/10/2004 | See Source »

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