Example sentences for: swallowing

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

  • Last night's Inside City Hall on New York 1 (the cable channel) had a police union guy pretty much swallowing Hillary's line that it was Bill not her who pardoned these people.

  • 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.

  • Of course, we cannot blame the Germans for making these mistaked, but we can blame English speakers for swallowing them whole, and with such a blatant lack of feeling for English idiom.

  • But life along the river is also fascinating: washerwomen squatting on the shore, water buffalo ambling down for a dip, the improvised ferryboats, and the captive cormorant birds, their necks ringed to prevent them from swallowing all their catch, waiting for orders to go fishing from bamboo rafts.

  • How else could I stare into the porridge Of my daughter's diarrhea, swallowing To keep from puking into it, yet grateful She's still mine enough to let me check?


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