The phrase
"swishing sound" means a noise that is made when something moves quickly through the air or water, creating a smooth and gentle sound.
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The hollow,
swishing sound of a spouting blue whale echoed across the brilliant crimson water.
I imagined it would be sticky and uncomfortable, and would make loud
swishing sounds when I walked, but it didn't!
But even when nothing works and you're fed up with just about everything... we still have leaves changing colour and falling down and making that crunch swoosh
crunch swish sound when you wade through piles of them.
This rapid heartbeat can sometimes result in the
same swishing sound associated with a heart murmur.
Your baby's heartbeat sounds more similar to
a swishing sound, rather than an actual beating sound and is quite a bit faster than your own.
The room was silent now, no beeping monitors,
no swishing sound of her oxygen flowing from the pump in through her nasal prongs breathing in life, just the whirring of the breast pump as I sat down to express Olivia's breast milk, milk she would never need again, never drink.
I might land at my desk with
a swishing sound in my left ear, quite impressive goggle marks and RAGING hunger, but it's pretty satisfying having ticked off a decent training session before the day has even properly begun, and before life has got in the way.
Put just a bit on the palm of your hand, and rub them together to make
a swishing sound.
Put a small amount of oil on your hands and rub them together, making
a swishing sound.
The screen more closely mimics book pages than any e-reader, even down to
a swishing sound it makes when you turn the page.
The murmur is audible as a whooshing or
swishing sound that occurs during the normal cycle of the heartbeat.
When the vet listens with a stethoscope, he or she can hear
a swishing sound, indicating that blood is leaking out of the heart valve during a contraction of the heart muscle.
A bit later we heard
this swishing sound and realized it was a bat.