SWELLING in a Sentence
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167 example sentences for SWELLING, such as:
1. Small extra costs all swell the total.
2. The spider's bite can cause pain and swelling.
3. He probed the swelling anxiously with his finger.
4. In addition to the thick fog, there was a heavy swell.
5. My swelling heart involuntarily pours itself out thus.
2. The spider's bite can cause pain and swelling.
3. He probed the swelling anxiously with his finger.
4. In addition to the thick fog, there was a heavy swell.
5. My swelling heart involuntarily pours itself out thus.
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Meanings and Examples of SWELLING
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swelling
n. the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)
n. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
Classic Sentence: (148 in 10 pages)
1 She looked down the road for him, the pain in her heart swelling up again.
2 No, they fought for swelling acres, softly furrowed by the plow, for pastures green with stubby cropped grass, for lazy yellow rivers and white houses that were cool amid magnolias.
3 The bubble of suspicion in her breast was swelling larger now.
4 His big body with its hard swelling muscles looked soft and slack and his waist line began to thicken.
5 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green.
6 The swelling lines of her figure had been hidden under the shapeless rags she wore in the fields.
7 Below us we could see the windings of the river, and Black Hawk, grouped among its trees, and, beyond, the rolling country, swelling gently until it met the sky.
8 It was a very obstinate sprain; the swelling would not go down, and the pain still continued.
9 The flushed countenance, angry eye and swelling figure of the scout, produced a sensation of secret awe in all that heard him.
10 Upon his aching and swelling head the cold cloth was like a tender woman's hand.
11 My swelling heart involuntarily pours itself out thus.
12 She sang, and her voice flowed in a rich cadence, swelling or dying away like a nightingale of the woods.
13 While the rain continued it had seemed like the murmur of their voices, rising and swelling a little, now and then, with gusts of emotion.
14 The eloquent voice, on which the souls of the listening audience had been borne aloft as on the swelling waves of the sea, at length came to a pause.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context Highlight In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
Context Highlight In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
15 I apprehend, if you come to that,' said Mr. Creakle, with his veins swelling again bigger than ever, 'that you've been in a wrong position altogether, and mistook this for a charity school.
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1 Doctors tried desperately to reduce the swelling in her brain.
2 The spider's bite can cause pain and swelling.
3 Immerse your foot in ice cold water to reduce the swelling.
4 He probed the swelling anxiously with his finger.
5 Poison from the weaver fish causes paralysis, swelling, and nausea.
6 If the swelling should recur, please take this medicine immediately.
7 You may notice redness and swelling after the injection.
8 One in 15 children can develop pneumonia and one in a thousand can develop encephalitis which is a swelling of the brain.
9 A gaggle of photographers huddled on the sidewalk beside a swelling crowd of onlookers.
10 Do as what the doctor said, Put ice on the swelling ankle.
11 Her arm was beginning to swell up where the bee had stung her.
12 Small extra costs all swell the total.
13 In addition to the thick fog, there was a heavy swell.
14 It was obvious she had broken her toe, because it immediately started to swell.
15 The bellies of the starving children began to swell yesterday.