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Example sentences for: swell

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

The music is a swell of longing, regret, and nostalgia.
Take surf , the `swell of the sea which breaks on the shore and slides back' with Arnold's “slow, forgiving roar.”
"When he was late and his mother stood waiting in the doorway, she always seemed to swell, filling the doorframe, to obstruct and delay him, so that she could bulk against his approaching face and scold him.
Though snobs and the stuffier sorts of pedagogues are toffee-nosed about regional dialects, poets such as Ted Hughes have acclaimed the organic way they have of fitting the syllables/To the long swell of the land.
I put in the sound of cartilage being crunched and show the bright red blood pouring out of someone's nose, and I give you a close up of the other person's broken fingers beginning to swell.