Used in a Sentence

swallows

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for swallows.

Editorial note

For those unfamiliar with the metric system of measurement, this is equivalent to approximately 75,000 unladen swallows.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of swallows gathered in one view.

noun

The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.

noun

A surname.

noun

A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TA1703).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for swallows.

noun

The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.

noun

A surname.

noun

A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TA1703).

verb

(transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.

Example sentences

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For those unfamiliar with the metric system of measurement, this is equivalent to approximately 75,000 unladen swallows.

2

New York, especially Manhattan, straddles this weird paradox where it's both mindbogglingly huge and swallows you up, and intimately navigable.

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And not to mention google plus, that swallows Ctrl+PgDown and Ctrl+PgUp, which happen to be shortcuts to move through tabs.

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But if your 4 year swallows a whole tube of it, they are probably going to get sick to their stomach.

5

Looks like mosh swallows OSC codes it doesn't know what to do with.

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My main annoyance with cljs is that rethrowing errors in Chrome swallows the stack trace and core.async wraps everything in a try/catch block.

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It's the distributor who swallows the cost in exchange for recurring revenue.

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However, any going concern will already have an accounts payable process in place that swallows up all nickel and dime invoices regardless of source.

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Not exactly a slovak saying, comes from greece From wikitionary An allusion to the return of migrating swallows at the start of the summer season.

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It seems to be a continued corporatization of the tertiary sector, whereby management and administration slowly swallows the old system of a university run by faculty.

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Because what you've said here essentially implies you think the 14th amendment swallows the rest of the constitution, when instead, the 14th amendment has very specific application.

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It's got some good support for this type of work, including an R Type Provider (and I'm not talking about something that swallows quarters!).

Quote examples

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The bugs I encountered were severe: One of the output function swallows the "-" sign if the result is between -1 and 0 [3].

2

As wonderful as the language might be, the site is nearly unreadable; the black background makes the dark red links almost invisible, and it "swallows up" the thin, small white text.

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This part shocked me: Homework swallows her nights and weekends—a big change from Dartmouth, where after a few hours of class “you could just do whatever,” Feng says.

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Between his dry-mouth clicks and swallows, long verbal gaps & unproductive chatter (..."that concludes that demo...") - i had a constant "edge-of-my-seat" anticipation of something about to go wrong.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use swallows in a sentence?

For those unfamiliar with the metric system of measurement, this is equivalent to approximately 75,000 unladen swallows.

What does swallows mean?

The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.

What part of speech is swallows?

swallows is commonly used as noun, verb.