Sentence examples for attempting to swallow from inspiring English sources

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

At home Kao tried to solidify its market position versus that of cosmetics leader Shiseido by attempting to swallow the troubled number two, Kanebo only to watch the prey fall into the arms of the government workout agency, Industrial Revitalization Corp.

The report also states that doctors say attempting to swallow the cinnamon especially dangerous for students with asthma.

What would Russia gain by triggering a potential nuclear war while attempting to swallow the continent backed by the U.S.? What evidence is there that the cynical authoritarian ruling in Moscow has morphed into a Slavic Adolf Hitler?

For me what was more striking was the way in which toddlers were attempting to swallow or smother distress by covering their mouths".

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

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.

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.