How to Use swallow in a Sentence

swallow

1 of 2 verb

• He swallowed the grape whole.
• Chew your food well before you swallow.
• Her story is pretty hard to swallow.
• The boss said, “Come in.” I swallowed hard and walked in.
• I can usually take criticism, but this is more than I can swallow.
• And while all three were close, this will prove to be the toughest one to swallow.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2024
• The soft gels are small and easy to swallow for most people as well.
  — Kelsey Kunik, Rd, Health, 25 July 2023
• Like pages torn from old telephone books— all of the names swallowed up by the cold.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
• Sure, Earth could be swallowed by the sun and destroyed.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
• That’s tougher to swallow than a one-time purchase price.
  — Justin Pot, Popular Science, 20 Dec. 2023
• The gel capsules are easy to swallow and are cholesterol-free.
  — Alyssa Edwards, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
• Only the tiny oval is long gone, swallowed with a clump of sweet flesh, and sailing the high seas of your gut.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 22 July 2023
• The giant red building had swallowed the Con Queen whole.
  — Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2023
• Boats had more room to park and the bridge supports had been swallowed up by water.
  — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
• The capsules are easy to swallow and can be taken at any time of the day with or without food.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
• But the bitterness of not knowing is a drink that must be swallowed again and again.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• The camera quickly cuts to Yao swallowing a flame off the end of a skewer.
  — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 7 July 2023
• Her sense of taste turned to ashes, and swallowing felt like an acid rinse.
  — Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023
• Let your past teach you lessons rather than swallowing you whole.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2023
• The oceans are rising and will swallow this city and this entire theater.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2024
• Still, taking But one pick ahead of Benson may be tough to swallow one day.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 29 June 2023
• They were swallowed up by the new spa-like master bathroom and walk-in closets.
  — Cynthia Billhartz Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• The liquid snake that swallows itself, the novel that ends in a bloom of death and irony, doesn’t leave behind much to work with.
  — Noah Berlatsky, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• Both can pay to treat injuries such as broken bones, snakebites or swallowed socks.
  — Sarah Schlichter Of Nerdwallet, Quartz, 21 Feb. 2024
• Near the end, Handley couldn’t talk or swallow and could barely move.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2023
• That thing-beyond-stillness had, at some point, swallowed her whole.
  — Hazlitt, 19 Apr. 2023
• In a lot of ways, Angie does know better than Tessa, which is a tough pill for Tessa to swallow.
  — Michael Schaub, Orange County Register, 3 May 2024
• Surf icon Kelly Slater has just been swallowed by a heaving wall of turquoise water.
  — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 10 Dec. 2023
• Forty-nine dollars is a lot for a fontina cheese pizza, even one with black truffles atop, and though the pie is tasty, the price is hard to swallow.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• Such formidable carnivores tore their prey into chunks and swallowed the parts without chewing.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024

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swallow

2 of 2 noun

• As the proverb goes, one swallow does not a summer make.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2022
• Keep an eye out for the cave swallow, canyon wren and rock wren near the cave entrance.
  — Anna Mazurek, Chron, 2 Jan. 2023
• On the leisurely float, keep your eyes peeled for great blue herons, swallows and wood ducks.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 May 2023
• Raghav still cannot hold up his head, sit, stand, talk, chew, or swallow.
  — Sanath Kumar Ramesh, Max G. Bronstein, STAT, 17 Feb. 2021
• Your goal should be to arrive at the next water source with a swallow left—no more, no less.
  — Outside Online, 28 Mar. 2022
• So the statue is melted down for its metal, except for the heart, which is tossed on the same trash heap as the swallow’s body.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
• The front of the coin was ground down so that it could be engraved with this awe-inspiring scene of a swallow, flowers and leaves.
  — Beth Bernstein, Forbes, 24 June 2021
• One day a swallow, already late on its migration south to Egypt, takes refuge at its base.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
• Even a small increase in the amount of the heavy metal in the birds, which are part of the swallow family, likely leads to poor health and a decreased chance of survival.
  — Jill Langlois, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
• Plus, Solaray offers their capsules in an easy-to-swallow size.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2023
• With a deep swallow, Perry snaps a pic of the boy's face before helping the coroner remove the stitches from his eyelids.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 22 June 2020
• But just as one swallow doesn’t make the spring, perhaps one report shouldn’t turn everybody back into a hawk.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2022
• Only one tank, which has been taken over by swallows, remains.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
• Flocks of birds are settling in — swallows, wrens, ducks, egrets, chattering red-winged blackbirds.
  — Shawn Hubler Mark Abramson, New York Times, 25 June 2023
• Over the past several centuries, New Zealand has become home to the Australian bittern, the white-faced heron, the welcome swallow.
  — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
• As Aristotle noted, one swallow does not make a summer.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 20 Apr. 2022
• The Minnesota meal being off the table is going to help Dutcher’s recruiting, always a nasty swallow when a coach is being wooed.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
• While there had been previous signs of other stars nibbling at planets and their digestive aftermath, this was the first time the swallow itself was observed.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
• Samsung’s options, then these wireless earbuds from Aiboondee offer a solid pairing for an easy-to-swallow price.
  — Brittany Vincent, CNN Underscored, 29 Sep. 2020
• But purple martins—shimmery, blackish-bluish swallows native to North America—just can’t get enough.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2023
• This place—where herons pick through marsh grass looking for crawfish and mounds of bramble swallow swimming pools and fire hydrants—is just as precious and vulnerable to destruction as the places that were here before.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 14 Mar. 2023
• And for the most part, race registration always had a minor mental hiccup, a deep breath and a hard swallow, when the gender box presented only two options: male or female.
  — Amin Touri, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2023
• The best and worst are swallows: swooping in unpredictable patterns, harder to follow than the most challenging of my balance exercises.
  — Hazlitt, 13 Dec. 2023
• But unlike many of the Beavers’ recent hard-to-swallow losses, there was no walk-off heartbreaker, no late-game meltdown, no squandered opportunity.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 27 May 2021
• The species that declined from Grinnell’s time were the ones that had the most difficulty keeping cool, notably larger birds, especially those like the violet-green swallow and the white-throated swift that get most of their water from insects.
  — Jim Morrison, Wired, 23 Feb. 2021
• The famous swallows of Capistrano reportedly arrive annually on the first day of spring.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• And these same companies–dangling these life-enhancing properties in the form of an easy-to-swallow pill, potion, or delicious lil’ gummy—also charge a pretty penny for their products.
  — Melissa Matthews, Men's Health, 4 May 2022
• Merck researchers are attempting to make an oral formulation of the Covid-19 vaccine based on their Ebola vaccine, letting patients take it by swishing a solution around their mouths and swallow.
  — Riley Griffin, Bloomberg.com, 24 Sep. 2020
• Unia suspected that his swallow was as uncoordinated as his walk.
  — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
• With pre-measured doses, all-natural ingredients, and simple-to-swallow format, CBD capsules and pills are a great way to incorporate the natural healing powers of hemp into your daily life.
  — Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024