Swell in a sentence as a noun

Tl;dr: my friend Ken is a patent troll taking on Google and I think that's just swell.

It made a swell parody, although still a cool product.

Please be careful with that; it would be a pity to see such a pearl to swell into bloatware.

Declan is also quite a "smart fellow" and we get along swell, even if we disagree sometimes and are on opposite coasts.

Swell in a sentence as a verb

Of course, there is the risk that everyone thinks McDonalds is a swell idea, and then no one will ever do anything nicer for lunch ever again.

Guess which estimates are going to get us the most push-back from the higher-ups?Now, we're swell guys and all, and we want to do a good job with our estimates.

His intentions are good and he's a swell writer and presenter, but I can't help but wonder what kind of magical, mystical fairyland he think's he in.

1970s-style PR. This mirrors the oil company messaging: "pay no attention to the oil spills and CIA-sponsored coups de etat, we're the swell people that make the petrochemicals in that ziploc baggie in your little girl's lunchbox.

Swell in a sentence as an adjective

"The location that a customer takes delivery", swell: do they "take delivery" at my business or at my server or at their home address or at their place of work?

This makes sense--if you can swell your endowment by letting in athletes who are a-ok with taking easy classes and then using their one-track brains to '**** decks' at Goldman, why not?

Since I had grown up hacking on my Apple ][+ and kinda idolizing him, it was both a pleasure and a relief to learn that he was just as swell to everybody as you'd expect him to be.

"Even with all the order that we've consented to have imposed by various hubs over the past 17 years, it inspires a certain swell of optimism for me to consider that we've never really abandoned that spirit.

Swell definitions

noun

the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea

noun

a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)

noun

a crescendo followed by a decrescendo

noun

a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance

See also: dandy dude gallant sheik beau clotheshorse

verb

increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The music swelled to a crescendo"

verb

become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"

verb

expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"

See also: intumesce tumefy tumesce

verb

come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things); "Strong emotions welled up"; "Smoke swelled from it"

verb

come up, as of a liquid; "Tears well in her eyes"; "the currents well up"

See also: well

verb

cause to become swollen; "The water swells the wood"

adjective

very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"