SWELL in a Sentence
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167 example sentences for SWELL, such as:
1. The balloon swelled out with gas.
2. Small extra costs all swell the total.
3. Don't stand there and swell up like a toad.
4. The spider's bite can cause pain and swelling.
5. He probed the swelling anxiously with his finger.
2. Small extra costs all swell the total.
3. Don't stand there and swell up like a toad.
4. The spider's bite can cause pain and swelling.
5. He probed the swelling anxiously with his finger.
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Meanings and Examples of SWELL
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swell
v. come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
n. a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
Classic Sentence: (148 in 10 pages)
1 Such handsome men, thought Scarlett, with a swell of pride in her heart, as the men called greetings, waved to friends, bent low over the hands of elderly ladies.
2 She watched the swell of his powerful shoulders against the cloth with a fascination that was disturbing, a little frightening.
3 She never came wearily home across the fields and saw the sprawling white house that her heart did not swell with love and the joy of homecoming.
4 Don't stand there and swell up like a toad.
5 Well, she wouldn't swell his conceit by complimenting him on his cleverness.
6 The wives and families of the Yankee garrison, filled with curiosity about the South after four years of war, came to swell the population.
7 "Look at that old nigger swell up like a toad," she giggled.
8 "I don't want to hand myself anything but I believe I'll give a swell performance in this first act," confided Juanita.
9 At the Jolly Seventeen Maud giggled nervously, "Well, I suppose you found war-work a good excuse to stay away and have a swell time."
10 The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass.
11 That instant, as he fell on the whale's slippery back, the boat righted, and was dashed aside by the swell, while Radney was tossed over into the sea, on the other flank of the whale.
12 An instant more, and all four boats were diagonically in the whale's immediate wake, while stretching from them, on both sides, was the foaming swell that he made.
13 One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinary one.
14 The breeze now freshened; the sea began to swell.
15 The road from the post-office came directly by our door, crossed the farmyard, and curved round this little pond, beyond which it began to climb the gentle swell of unbroken prairie to the west.
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1 Her arm was beginning to swell up where the bee had stung her.
2 Small extra costs all swell the total.
3 In addition to the thick fog, there was a heavy swell.
4 It was obvious she had broken her toe, because it immediately started to swell.
5 The bellies of the starving children began to swell yesterday.
6 The balloon swelled out with gas.
7 The human population swelled, at least temporarily, as migrants moved south.
8 Certainly, they were many and glowing; to let my heart be heaved by the exultant movement, which, while it swelled it in trouble, expanded it with life.
9 Doctors tried desperately to reduce the swelling in her brain.
10 The spider's bite can cause pain and swelling.
11 Immerse your foot in ice cold water to reduce the swelling.
12 He probed the swelling anxiously with his finger.
13 Poison from the weaver fish causes paralysis, swelling, and nausea.
14 If the swelling should recur, please take this medicine immediately.
15 You may notice redness and swelling after the injection.