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Sentence Examples His heart swelled for this beauty with a heart-shaped birthmark on the side of her neck. Their chests swelled with pride as they saluted the general, did an about-face, and marched away exuberantly. The berth was spacious, mostly under the waterline where the Grand Adventure swelled out to an impressive size. A large welt had swelled upon his head, but to his credit the blow hadn't caused him to bleed. Governments rose and fell, new participants swelled the ranks of the political elite, and the middle class kept expanding. Offshore, breakers swelled in the whitecaps and then crashed in the shallow water, strong enough to body surf for twenty yards. As the evening progressed numbers grew and the crowd was swelled by people of other ethnic origins including white and Afro-Caribbean youths. Even the swelled side stretchers are flatter and less graceful and seem to be the product of an efficient, and therefore presumably busy, shop. Bianca's eyes swelled and suddenly her neck thrashed backwards and she yelped out loud. The company's ranks swelled to 60 employees, and a satellite office was opened in New York. Each time the waters swelled and raged through the passage there at the bridge, their recession revealed an altered riverscape. The U.S. armada at Culebra was swelled by a flotilla of support vessels, including colliers and torpedo boats. In the heat and humidity, paper swelled, colors ran, and inks refused to align on the page. With the weather also playing its part it was a great day for the many family outings that swelled the attendances at all parades. The time lost in reorganizing the Allied forces brought heavy autumnal rain which swelled their waters. Her powers swelled, thrashed, fighting the bands of black that imprisoned them, nowhere near as invincible as the Psirons had been. Almost immediately, his calf swelled up, and the skin covering it grew scorching hot. From the shadows came the roar of the waves as the beach swelled beneath the cliff bluffs. By the sixth and last volume, the list of contributors on the title page swelled to 39 names. As my body swelled, I thought I would die, but death did not come, so I continued to hunt and gather food. Show More Sentences Her heart swelled for some affection, but she eased herself so not to appear flamboyant. Recent events have swelled both their ranks and the volume with which they proclaim their beliefs. The ranks of female players swelled by a similar amount to 132, up from 116 earlier in the decade. By the time he had arrived, Rachael's knee had swelled up like a blowfish, and a nice, purple bruise was starting to form. By the next day her lips had swelled and turned the pale, pinkish hue of the underside of her tongue. Soon after the election was safely won, the area under national parks swelled 50 per cent. It must have soaked up some water in the cellar over the years and swelled somewhat. It includes meticulously gauged fluting across the apron and down the legs, terminating in swelled spade feet. Peter swelled with pride at her assessment of his manners, buoyed up by the thought of her approval and happiness. Over the years, as the publishing world has burgeoned, and the reading public swelled, Premier Bookshop unfortunately remained the same size. Pride swelled through his body as he recalled the stages of his journey, and he felt a great love for the one who had guided him. The crowd swelled as the day progressed, to the great pleasure of hawkers selling eatables and tea. During the next few months the unit swelled and by the end of the year there were 422 civilians, 18 officers and 181 other ranks. She dislocated both knee caps and her legs swelled so much she was evacuated to Germany until the swelling subsided. Her foot swelled during the night, making it hard for her to walk, so it was more of a hobble. Blood pearled around the shaft of the arrow, bright red, and swelled there like a parasite until it crept down her cheek. Later this week the financial coffers of this small circulation but widely read magazine will be swelled by a plaintive advert. Sea and air cadets, junior entrants in the best dressed St George competition, and members of the Companions of the Black Bear swelled the ranks. When he was finally contented with what he saw, the shrill cry of his whistle swelled throughout the football field. It had been transformed to be quite crooked and swelled, painted in a vibrant deep plum and green. Show More Sentences The gate cried back in outrage and pain, as the wood and steel began to bulge inwards, barely holding back the forces that swelled from Terren. The power of speech went first, as my tongue swelled to the size of a bouncy castle. My heart swelled to gargantuan proportions in my chest, and my smile broadened. Richard Chaplow has a dead leg on his thigh that swelled up rapidly and doesn't look good at all. By 7.30 am, the crowd had swelled to over 150 colourfully dressed cyclists armed with a ghetto blaster. Aunts, uncles, grandmas, grandpas, cousins and unlinked others often swelled the crowd to near 40 by noon. His lips quivered, and his eyes swelled with tears as he kept them on his fallen mother. A note of melancholy swelled to a crescendo, then, dissipated into the breeze with a diminuendo. In recent months, however, as worker unrest has swelled and fewer job recruits have arrived, the clamour for jobs at the factory gates has declined. In the same time period, the number of web pages swelled from 500 million to 3 to 8 billion, and the number of searches quintupled from 100 to 500 million. The building rang with a tremendous shout, and another, and another, and then it echoed deep loud groans that gathered strength as they swelled out, like angry thunder. I envision them as two goatee-stroking trainspotters with swelled, distended craniums, able to assimilate incidental music from any source into a perfect pastiche. Five minutes after she took the first capsule, her tongue and throat swelled, accompanied by transpiration, wheeziness, bowel complaints, and diarrhoea. Both inner-city removals and rapid urban migration swelled its population. Her nose was red and her moist eyes had swelled slightly just underneath. The approximately 500 people who packed the Yamagata City Sports Center on Thursday had swelled to 1,000 less than 24 hours later. In 1843 there were 451 knights bachelor and 787 members of the orders, but these numbers swelled rapidly, and by 1915 there were over 4,000 members of orders. As the number has swelled, the attention that tourism has got from the Government and the big business houses has made the small and medium entrepreneurs a trifle uneasy. Crowds have swelled to capacity, increasing pressure for the club to move to a 55,000-ground at the waterfront, a flit which remains uncertain for financial reasons. This time, instead of dispersing the crowd, the police response swelled its ranks exponentially. Show More Sentences These three swelled, like the men in buckram, and were soon a dozen. I ran out of the room, down the hall, and into the girls lavatory, where I locked myself inside a stall and bawled until my eyes were just about swelled shut. A record 116 suspected lawbreakers were arrested in one day, as officers who normally work behind the scenes swelled the ranks of those working on the campaign. Flakes of fish food swelled and bobbed on the water's surface. The crowd has swelled so you can't move, let alone photograph, so I make for a restaurant on a first floor from where I can look down on the concert below. The perennially underfunded train system pressed extra cars into service and honored airline tickets as its long-distance ridership swelled 35 percent. The idiot in the unbecoming South Sea island shirt spilled the straightforward chance at immortality and the England opener's confidence swelled almost visibly. Real learning begins with an apprentice working at the elbow of a master craftsman, but there were not enough scholarly elbows to go around as the numbers swelled. The applause swelled as members of the Royal Family left in the seven-car cavalcade, particularly when the young Princes William and Harry passed by. However, right on the 50 yard line sits a huge and overgrown elephant, enormously strong but also swelled up, slow, and completely unsuited to being a player in this game. The couple were swamped with phone-waving well-wishers and extra police had to be called in at one stage as numbers swelled. It impelled him to record his experience in an autobiographical comic that has swelled to epic proportions over the decades and become his life's work. It reminded him of the man who had a poor old lean, bony, spavined horse, with swelled legs. So much was going on that his eyes flashed images and his body swelled with sweat, and he didn't care about what it was, but just about when he would see it. As the Ku Klux Klan swelled to behemoth proportions in the United States of the 1920s, so too did the scale of its expansionist ambition. Thereafter, the 1960s swelled with political zeal and social unrest. The crowd of journalists that had swelled to its largest number. The crowd of journalists that has swelled to its largest number. On the Tuesday, two days before Bede died, his breathing became worse and his feet swelled. Virginia's population swelled with Cavaliers during and after the English Civil War. Show More Sentences The leech on his leg had swelled to more than five inches long, puffed and swollen on his blood. The royal collection was swelled by diplomatic gifts including three leopards from Frederick III, the Holy Roman Emperor. By 1860 the population had swelled to over 80,000, more than half being Chinese. In the west, the Russians were dissuaded from attacking Vidin by the presence of the Austrian forces, which had swelled to 280,000 men. The nomadic population swelled with the influx of bedouins from Najd, in the Arabian Peninsula. Their numbers were swelled by the arrival of thousands of loyalists of Scottish origin both during and after the American Revolution. With his weight now coming down and his bank account swelled, Welsh and Pollok refocused on Ritchie. The ranks of political prisoners swelled into the thousands, and beatings, torture, and official murder became the order of the day. However, Liverpool's population of around 60,000 in the 1840s was swelled by the passage of around 300,000 Irish refugees escaping the Famine. During the 1980s, the democratisation of Latin America swelled the ranks of abolitionist countries. By their action upon one another they may be swelled somehow, so as to shorten the length. Hundreds of thousands of hoboes were already riding the rails by the time the Great Depression greatly swelled their numbers. But their numbers have swelled as a result and the brigade are now considered to be overmanned. Expert Advice Advice Today's modern bottoms have swelled in size and are broader and saggier than ever before. Every little pine needle expanded and swelled with sympathy and befriended me. The officer, who had been feeling unwell for just a few weeks, had her life-support machine turned off after her blood vessels swelled and caused brain stem damage. The exodus of MPs from the Commons at the next general election was swelled further yesterday with the news that Orpington Tory John Horam will step down. Immigrants have swelled the ranks of young age groups as the baby bust has aged, filling in a short-fall in demand created by the baby bust, according to Fannie Mae's Berson. But after night fell two squad cars, parked about 200 yards from the station, were attacked by an angry mob which later swelled to hundreds of people. Brideshead's selection as the American Book of the Month swelled its US sales to an extent that dwarfed those in Britain, which was affected by paper shortages. Show More Sentences The library's collections swelled to over 300,000 volumes during the radical phase of the French Revolution when the private libraries of aristocrats and clergy were seized. The lump swelled in my throat, the dog tag blurred through wet eyes. Romola's heart swelled again, so that she was forced to break off. But the need she felt to disburden her mind to Tito urged her to repress the rising anguish. Examples from Classical Literature Thus climbed is gaining the upper hand of clomb, swelled of swoll, hanged of hung. He swelled up, blowed and strutted about like a miffed gobbler in a barn yard! As the barcarolle swelled and died away, I felt this conviction growing within me. If the limbs be swelled, or joints stiff, it will be proper to foment them with warm vinegar, or bathe them in lukewarm water. Some called him Tom Sawyer the Traveler, and that just swelled him up fit to bust. As we crawled back the noise increased, and it swelled to a roar as we entered. Swithin's eyes swelled a little with his desire to see what they were waiting for. But the heart that swelled so tumultuously in his bosom, was honest and unselfish. Gartley's heart swelled with delight, translating her confidence into his power. The tigress-mother swelled in her heart, and she looked like a maenad indeed. It swelled to the size of a football, then was man-sized, and growing to the size of a huge tank that filled most of the tent. I swung at 'im with a stick and he swelled his head all up big and rared back. One other had swelled leg, or phlegmasia dolens, and one or two others did not recover as well as usual. Heavy rains continued and swelled the rivers Lomnitza and Dniester and the small streams running into them. Those who played the trombone and the ophicleide blew till their thick lips swelled, and seemed to cover up the mouthpieces. The small object he'd dropped from the ejector tube now swelled and writhed and struggled. The manubrium is thickened and drawn inward, the ensiform process protuberant, the sternum often swelled and painful to the touch. The storm in the night had swelled the myriad creeks, and extended all morasses. By anticipation their bosoms swelled with gratitude, and their hearts dilated into praise. Thanks to the brassardiers, the tide of prisoners swelled so that it became necessary to centralise the carnage. Show More Sentences The wind swelled to a hurricane, and the rain dashed like a flood against the glass. You've had a swelled head ever since that hose-cart driver took you out to a chop suey joint. In spite of his self-control and a belief in his stolidness, a lump swelled in his throat. The vibration swelled to a roar, but the seat of the sound amid the echoing cliffs was indeterminable. The heart of the miscreant swelled with indignation and disappointment. Nearly all joined in singing this hymn, which swelled high above the howling of the storm. All day long she sat, and now evening came apace, and the noise of battle drew near, swelled, and sank, and died away. Her heart swelled and throbbed, and she involuntarily strained him so tight that the little fellow looked up into her face in astonishment. Your achievements may not have sufficiently swelled the historic page. Now it swelled into a smooth, impelling wail lulling him into drowsiness. I answered that the wood had swelled, and the joinery was imperfect. The radiuses on the swelled front portion of the receiver were very wide and did not follow the shape of the front trunnion well. Miss Wardwell swelled with importance and let her superior ask her twice. The sixteen States over which Washington presided had swelled to eighteen. They kept along it for two days, during which, from the contribution of many rills and brooks, it gradually swelled into a small river. Each gust, as it bore down, rattled the panes, and swelled off like the others. The first time he took Peggy out in the two-seater he swelled with pride. Such unworthy persons doubtless swelled the mass of uncovenanted. Love swelled the swan-like neck, and moulded the rounded limb. Anak's tongue began to protrude from his mouth and his eyes swelled. Show More Sentences Dilating and dilating since the sun went down last night, it has gradually swelled until it fills every void in the place. He took a rest and then swelled himself up and fetched a succession of admirable groans. This gradually swelled into the incessant roar of pitched battle. Wat's bosom swelled within him as he looked on that host of plaided men. The tumult swelled, directed, dominated, by the voice of the revivalist. And Tildy's heart swelled in her bosom, for she saw at last the towers of Romance rise above the horizon of the grey plain in which she had for so long travelled. The sails were lowered to one third of the masts, and with their fore-sails swelled up like balloons they glided over the waves and anchored in the middle of the harbour. As the piercing tones of the suppliant swelled on his ears, they moved slowly in the direction of her person, and finally settled there in a steady gaze. The expropriation of the farmers that took place at this time would also have swelled our vote had it not been for the brief and futile rise of the Grange Party. Still higher, on their left, the elevation called Bulbarrow or Bealbarrow, well-nigh the highest in South Wessex, swelled into the sky, engirdled by its earthen trenches. Or perchance his sensitive temperament was invigorated by the loud and piercing music that swelled heaven-ward, and uplifted him on its ascending wave. The pomegranate swelled till it grew as large as a pumpkin, and raised itself on to the roof of the gallery, from which it fell into the court and was broken into bits. There was a woman with a cancer in her breast, swelled to a monstrous size, full of holes, in two or three of which I could have easily crept, and covered my whole body. She opened it, and there stood Rosa, the pretty young quadroon, whom we have before often noticed, her hair in disorder, and her eyes swelled with crying. When we started, the crowd round the inn door, which had by this time swelled to a considerable size, all made the sign of the cross and pointed two fingers towards me. The Ao-chung man refreshed himself, and swelled with pride of leadership. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of swelled? Words that rhyme with swelled What is the adverb for swelled? What is the adjective for swelled? What is the noun for swelled? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words swell sweetwater sweet treat sweet-toothed sweet tooth sweet-tempered swell-headed swelling swellings swells swelter sweltered 7-letter Words Starting With s sw swe swel swell swelle