5 sentences with 'swoop'
Example sentences and phrases with the word swoop and other words derived from it.
• « This concept was potentially revolutionary because in one fell swoop it removed the whole edifice of church ritual. »
• « In one fell swoop, Louis XIV crippled what had been one of the most commercially productive sectors of the French population, ultimately strengthening his various enemies in the process. »
• « In October, in one fell swoop, the Assembly seized church lands and property, selling them at auction to finance the Revolutionary state itself. Finally, in the early 1790s, it abolished titles of nobility altogether, which was almost redundant since those titles no longer had legal privileges attached to them. »
• « In one fell swoop, the myth of French military supremacy, a legacy of the first Napoleon, was destroyed, and Europeans were confronted with the fact that a new military power had asserted its strength in its place. »
• « In one fell swoop, Nazi laws and policies (in particular the entire edifice of anti-Semitic legislation) were imported into Austria, and there was a wave of looting as Catholic Austrians attacked their Jewish compatriots. »