Swayed
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I was
swayed
by talk of friends and elders about how once a girl undergoes “the cut,” she gains respect and grown men consider her suitable for marriage.
More example sentences with word swayed
"O body
swayed
to music / O brightening glance / How [can we know] the dancer from the dance?"
Why were they
swayed
by one story so much more than the other?
And maybe if we all tried to read our fears, we too would be less often
swayed
by the most salacious among them.
As Yeats put that same universal question, "O body
swayed
to music, o brightening glance, how can we know the dancer from the dance?"
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