verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
away
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He had dismissed her from his mind as he would swat away a troublesome fly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Be careful when she swats at a fly or a spider, she may swat you by mistake.
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But just as the buzzer sounds, an impossibly tall defender leaps and swats aside your shot.
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Doleman wrapped him up with his left hand and swatted the ball loose with his right hand.
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I wait until it fills itself and then I swat it, the blood splashing over my hand.
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It was a pleasant place, with high ceilings where fans swatted the air.
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Then he swatted himself across the nose with the 400, and walked out jauntily.
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Then my father would light a candle and we would all swat , stamp and squash as many as we could.
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They come along with something sharp and heavy and they swat you with it.