Take the wrong way

Usage examples of swipe.

Another time -- Jenny, Amsel, and Matern were absent be cause Jenny was having her ballet lesson -- Tulla swiped two schlagball balls for us, and a kid from the Athletic and Fencing Club was suspected.

She swiped at it with great force, but her battledore caught nothing but feathers, and the bird sailed into the net.

The young guard Millward had finally drawn his sword, he swiped at the thing but it gave no ground, only let out a rumbling hiss, a sound more like stone scraping on stone than the breath of a living animal, and sank back on itself, its shadowy form became darker and thicker.

She paused, her head slightly bowed, and with a delicate swipe of her pedipalp she wiped away a crumb of fat from her chelicerae.

A denizen with the head and upper body of a mantis swiped at Perdix with one massive forelimb.

She swiped a strand of hair from her face and when she did so, Quint caught the resemblance.

Anne had wide-set eyes of willow-green, a straight nose dusted with freckles, and a largish mouth, glossy with an artful swipe of raisiny lipstick.

Swish, swipe: the thin cane swept down across his naked cheeks, slicing them with cruel accuracy and leaving the yoked sufferer with two reddening stripes.

Finally he took a shaky breath, swiped his sleeve over his eyes, and began sorting faded stereographs from a time before humanity split atoms, walked on the moon, and died in the bloody, anonymous mire of special operations.

Another demodand started through, but the barbarian blasted it back into Tarterus with a powerful swipe.

Reverend Wadson who had played tight end for a black college in the south and was known to be able to unfoot someone with one swipe.

It attacked with appalling speed, a sudden unleashing of coiled muscles that ended with a swipe of one unsheathed paw as it tried to hook a claw into the protruding hands.

She gave her antecubital vein a quick swipe with alcohol and winced at the prick of the needle.

Ten minutes of instruction told them all they required about their new job, and when Brumbaugh saw them whisking down the rows, chopping out unwanted beets with one swipe, he knew he had solved his problem.

I said, swiping the last of the coneflower ointment across the wound and reaching for a clean linen bandage.