I felt naked in a strange world. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air, knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop.

With frigate birds swooping above and the high-speed dorado slicing through the water below, flying fish are, literally, caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.

The samurai decapitated his opponent in one fell swoop.

The police lied in wait, ready to swoop in.

An eagle swooped and plucked a rabbit from the field.

East, West and squally South-west, with a roar, / swoop down on Ocean, and the surf and sand / mix in dark eddies, and the watery floor / heave from its depths, and roll huge billows to the shore. / Then come the creak of cables and the cries / of seamen.

The swoop of bats in the darkness over her was as the wings of unearthly creatures.

This is a golden opportunity we'd be stupid to pass up. Let's get to work and finish it all in one fell swoop.

Far from being an empty void, the space around Earth is a jungle of invisible fields and tiny particles. It’s draped with twisted magnetic field lines and swooping electrons and ions.