What's the difference between swag and swat?

Swag


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To hang or move, as something loose and heavy; to sway; to swing.
  • (v. i.) To sink down by its weight; to sag.
  • (n.) A swaying, irregular motion.
  • (n.) A burglar's or thief's booty; boodle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Then my 3rd was KFC and I knew he was right July 7, 2016 Already there are reports of churches and police stations being flooded by Pokémon Trainers keen to find rare Pokémon or grab swag from PokéStops.
  • (2) He sat on the main stage beneath a blue and yellow swagging.
  • (3) Henry and his team will be taking no prisoners until the swag is safely gathered in.
  • (4) The clip of him shacking out to the dubstep tune Swag Music became a particularly big hit.
  • (5) Invariably someone tweets a picture of a dog with pro-Israel swag , and it’s always absurd.
  • (6) "G osh," gasps Lucy Worsley, peering intently at Edward I's pendulous swags.
  • (7) Seeing as I've already broken the fashion ranks by revealing the Great 57th Birthday Denim Swag Haul, I shall further anger my style overlords by confessing I strongly disagree with this rule.
  • (8) Undoubtedly John Humphrys would ask him how he justifies his mighty swag to a striking staff on considerably less than the median.
  • (9) In a city of hustlers, tricksters, and go-getters, where the right dose of swag and gumption gets you farther than a college degree can, Furo is a bumbling non-entity.
  • (10) People push and cluster their way through the narrow alleyways between stands carrying big bags of swag – usually black T-shirts and posters and little action figures.
  • (11) One huckster inside the de facto pope swag bazaar at the Columbus Circle subway station confirmed that he would resell any tickets – any tickets he obtained whatsoever – at a higher price than he had paid.
  • (12) As Essence magazine recently swooned: “Mr Ali has some serious swag … from his cool demeanour and radiant smile to his deep laugh and dope style”.
  • (13) There is a lovely wisteria outside, forming great swags of flowers around the window - it feels like being in a treetop bower.
  • (14) Spiders slung swags and trusses of silk in every corner.
  • (15) I’ve shared slightly embarrassed glances with other suspected Pokémon Go players when we’ve all ended up crowded around the same landmark, unloading swag from the PokéStop – but my excitement when a Crabby appeared in the dairy section at the local supermarket was not shared by passing shoppers, who no doubt couldn’t work out why I was enthusiastically “photographing” milk.
  • (16) No, you might not be carrying the Chanel swag about your person (although you might – honestly, that Oxfam in Kensington is a goldmine), but you're still looking good, so enjoy it.
  • (17) UK commissions for ITV1 include SWAGS, a six-part drama series about service wives and girlfriends, and historical drama Mr Selfridge.
  • (18) I slept in a swag – basically, a glorified sleeping bag cover.
  • (19) Now that he’s got his second-term swag on, he’s able to let loose a little bit,” she said.
  • (20) Last month, the FBI director, James Comey, told an audience: “I put a piece of tape over the camera because I saw somebody smarter than I am had a piece of tape over their camera.” The corporate swag company Idea Stage Promotions describes its Webcam Cover 1.0 as “the HOTTEST PROMOTIONAL ITEM on the market today”.

Swat


Definition:

  • () imp. of Sweat.
  • () of Sweat

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thank God the heroes of SWAT-team prevented the worst.
  • (2) In April 2009, he launched the first concerted offensive against the extremists, routing them in the Swat valley in the north-west, before starting the continuing operations in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal area, which runs along the Afghan border.
  • (3) He dictates the next rally and when Murray decides to go for another lob, Dimitrov is on to the ruse and swats a contemptuous smash away to seal the first set that flashed by in the blink of an eye!
  • (4) It is a measure of how far his side have come that the Italian was forced to swat aside rumours linking his playmaker Riyad Mahrez with a move to the European champions, Barcelona, at his pre-match press conference.
  • (5) Police swat teams took an hour to get to Utøya after the first alert was issued, hampered in part by a lack of helicopters.
  • (6) And Eurie Stamp, a grandfather of 12, who was sitting watching baseball on TV in his pajamas in Farmington, Massachusetts, in January 2011 when a Swat team battered down his door, threw a flashbang device into the room and forced him to lie facedown on the floor.
  • (7) As pressure grows on the White House to explain failures to prevent a second case of transmission within the US, the president announced a “rapid response Swat team” from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would aim to respond to any further infections within 24 hours “to take local hospitals step by step through what needs to be done”.
  • (8) When the first Swat team was deployed in the late '60s, its target was a single remaining cell of the Black Panthers .
  • (9) A report that Stan Kroenke had proposed an extra two years was swatted away as “absolutely false … an invention”.
  • (10) Guerrero trying to close down the ring while Mayweather keeps on the move, occasionally swatting his opponent down if he threatens to get too close.
  • (11) A normal American could have his home taken away from him due to a dishonest mortgage and no one in Washington blinked – but when a banker calls Treasury in a panic about losing out on some debt, a Swat team of Washington policymakers rushes to the scene.
  • (12) There are old-school celebrities who see the interview as being a tool to help them, whereas the newer people just think of the celebrity interview as an irritating fly they have to swat.
  • (13) Within seconds members of the police Swat team had burst in.
  • (14) A brief exchange between Aitboulahcen, a 26-year-old French-Moroccan national, and a Swat team was recorded during the standoff, with a police officer asking: “Where is your boyfriend?” Seconds before a huge explosion was heard, she replied: “He’s not my boyfriend!” Parts of her spine reportedly landed on a police car.
  • (15) There needs to be very strong [privacy] protection, but at the same time we also see large numbers of very abusive Swat raids,” he said.
  • (16) Gavin O'Reilly had dismissed him as a "gnat" he would like to swat but last year his father - INM's largest shareholder, with a 28.5% stake - started to make his peace with him.
  • (17) Historian Richard Lowry, who interviewed nearly 200 veterans of the Iraq battle, likens it to "a thousand SWAT teams going through the city, clearing criminals out."
  • (18) One more win now, one more good performance against the sort of team they have swatted aside all season, and the long, often excruciating wait will be over: City will be champions.
  • (19) They were victims of a swatting attack, a malicious form of hoax where special weapons and tactics (Swat) teams are called to a victim’s home under false pretenses, with potentially deadly results.
  • (20) Just more than a week later, on 25 January 2014, someone launched a second swatting attack on the same home.