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swooning

[ UK /swˈuːnɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈswunɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. weak and likely to lose consciousness
    light-headed from lack of sleep
    felt light in the head
    suddenly felt faint from the pain
    light-headed with wine
    a swooning fit
    was sick and faint from hunger

How To Use swooning In A Sentence

  • We often read about overwrought ladies reaching for their vinaigrettes, or of stalwart heroes reviving a swooning damsel by waving a vinaigrette beneath her nose.
  • She played the tambourine, the xylophone, and the harmonica, all to our swooning hearts' delight.
  • No sentimental swooning with love for Austen. Times, Sunday Times
  • I never understood the screaming hysteria, swooning, and sobbing that seem conventional behaviour for thronging female audiences at big rock concerts.
  • Her first feature, La Ciénaga, or The Swamp, exuded a fetid, toxic atmosphere: a film on the verge of swooning, overcome by its own unwholesomely sensual fumes.
  • Two party patrons swooning over the calorific Oreos were Patty Godfrey and Lyn Stewart.
  • The foxy temptress and swooning beauty of popular imagination was a violent pragmatist for whom death held no chill.
  • Similarly, his image of St. Francis conveys the saint's swooning spirituality with all the appropriate trappings - halo, monastic robe, stigmata and the animals to which he preached.
  • They had nutritionists swooning but Oliver soared clear over double-oxers, and Cassidy outsang the birds. The Elvis Latte
  • Aside from a swooning housing market, soaring energy prices, a credit crisis and fresh concerns about jobs, this fall was one of the balmiest on record. Lookahead: Can It Get Worse?
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