Polish English Dictionary

język polski - English

sunąć in English:

1. glide


A bird can glide through the air without moving its wings.
Kennedy seemed to glide through life.
The small boat glided silently down the river.
Some people glide effortlessly through life with no real worries.
I love my new pen - it just glides across/over the paper.
could just glide along.

English word "sunąć"(glide) occurs in sets:

sprawdzian 22.10.2014
sprawdzian II 22.10.2014

2. sweep along



3. dash


We ran a hundred-meter dash.
The rain stopped just long enough for me to dash into the cafe without getting wet.
a dash of salt
Coffee with a dash of milk please
Sometimes you can use a dash instead of a comma
Don't dash off a sloppily written report filled with mistakes.
In a hundred meter dash she started last but soon caught up with the others.
where are you dashing?
I dashed straight round to hospital.
he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer
In a fit of rage James had dashed the priceless vase to the ground.
My mother, when she still cooked, always added a dash of sugar to the vegetables she stir-fried.
Definition if you dash somewhere, you go there in a hurry because you do not want to be late and you do not have much time to get there
I made a dash for the ​bathroom. / There was a ​mad dash for the ​exit.
She really cut a dash in her pink evening gown.

4. drift


Many people drift through life without a purpose.
the government's drift towards a centralization of power
Liam drifted in at 2a.m., not even aware of how late it was.
The ice may drift considerable distances each day.
The drift of the current is to the south.
Maybe, but I can't catch the drift of even simple situations.
Waves of joy drift through my opened heart.
The logs drifted on the stream.
He hardly resisted the drift. He was drifted about 5 kilometres.
The car got stuck in a large drift of snow
We drifted for few nautical miles.
The conversation seems to have drifted a little while I was away ... I can’t quite see where all this is heading.
The tree branch fell into the river and drifted away downstream
No one noticed that the boat carrying the child had begun to drift out to sea.
To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it— but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.