Example sentences for: swallowing

How can you use “swallowing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Brokaw is increasingly swallowing his words, and I find his ode to the World War II generation to be tiresome.

  • Deutch played along, swallowing his medicine without protest and even issuing contrite remarks about the security measures he should have taken.

  • This handsome, outsize TV antenna makes up for its unimaginative name (from its builder, the Canadian National railway and telecommunications company) with all the fanciful interpretations of its shape: jousting lance, hypodermic needle, serpent frozen rigid while swallowing a football.

  • A quirkier favorite of mine is the Journal of Emergency Medicine , which is replete with oddball articles--such as the recent one from the University of Tennessee on 14 cases occurring over five weeks in which prisoners reported swallowing razor blades and other metal objects.

  • Someone is troubled, someone is trying,in earnest, to explain; to speak without swallowing the tongue; to find the perfectword among so few or the too many--


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