Sentence examples for had been swelling from inspiring English sources

The crowd outside the Socialist party headquarters near the banks of the Seine had been swelling for hours until the main street and all the roads around it were filled to bursting with a swaying, flag-waving, feverishly happy crowd.

It had rained nonstop for the past week, and the Jhelum river, which spools like a paisley through the valley of Kashmir before crossing over to Pakistan, in the north, had been swelling.

Iverson's shooting elbow had developed bursitis: it had been swelling up for some time, and, devising a temporary solution to an injury that would ultimately require surgery, Lenny Currier, then the trainer of the Philadelphia 76ers, cut a swath of a tube bandage called compression stockinette and suggested that Iverson try to play with his elbow mummified in the stuff.

The American house has been swelling for decades.

Popular discontent has been swelling in the face of rising prices, food shortages and energy restrictions.

The anticipation has been swelling ahead of a match filled with plot lines.

Far from disappearing, the ranks of that ugly Other England, where the riots have their roots, have been swelling.

In practice the impeachment will only add to the quiet anger that has been swelling since her government was overthrown.

A steep rise in the popularity of triathlons has been swelling the ranks of open water events.

The Saxton River has been swelling to the height of the bridges that cross it, forcing their closure.

There is a volcano in Bolivia called Uturuncu that has had super-eruptions in the past and has been swelling continuously since 1992.