Sentence examples for attempt to swallow from inspiring English sources

Predators, such as snakes, that attempt to swallow an armadillo lizard will often fail because the lizard offers no start point from which swallowing can begin.

With a sort of brushing jamminess, it gets perceptibly longer on the palate as you attempt to swallow, so best eased if served on ice.

Once they did, the skeleton of a winged monster behind them shuddered to life and made an attempt to swallow the player whole.

Given his penchant for dealmaking, he could then try to engineer a blockbuster merger with Sprint a move that would inevitably attract scrutiny from regulators.Antitrust watchdogs rightly blocked AT&T's attempt to swallow T-Mobile back in 2011.

According to the report, the "cinnamon challenge" is the newest, potentially dangerous, teen fad where the youngsters attempt to swallow a spoonful of cinnamon.

Given all the regulatory scrutiny Comcast will face in its attempt to swallow Time Warner Cable, CBS may have an opening to renegotiate its deal with them in the coming months.

A lonely boy attempts to swallow his father's wedding ring.

His roommate at the Dirty Boardinghouse, for example, is said to look like "a bilious codfish attempting to swallow a cannon ball".

If an animal attempts to swallow the toad, its poison causes a rapid heartbeat, excessive salivation, convulsions and paralysis -- and it ultimately kills its victim.

Guardian Australia has been told by eyewitness sources that three Somali women attempted self-harm and suicide last Friday as part of the protests, one woman attempted to swallow a razor blade, and another attempted to jump from a height.

Any one who has ever attempted to swallow the trash which is daily administered to the public in the shape of books of travels, under the various titles of "notes," "journals," "recollections," &c.