Sentence examples for head swell from inspiring English sources

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"Don't let your head swell," Mr. de Blasio said.

It was the revelation that a man can wear the loftiest of miters without having his head swell to fit it, and can hold an office to which the term "infallible" is often attached without forgetting his failings.

It strikes me that only someone who herself was overflowing with life and humor would say about herself: "I'm not an artist, you know, I just paint by heart," and about her own more abstract work, commissioned in the 1960s: "Those things make my head swell".

After making my head swell up so that it looked like I had gone three rounds with Mike Tyson, and covering my face in pus-filled blisters, it then found its way in to the cornea of my right eye, leaving me temporarily (I hope) blinded in that eye.

If that's true, the antics of one Hong Kong resident should be making North Korea's babyfaced Supreme Leader's head swell even wider than its default bulbous size.

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I'm serious, though, his head swelled up to twice the size of a normal head.

I stood up quickly, and my head swelled with blood, like a thunderball.

My head swelled, and our roofwork relaxed and shook, then melted into the sky.

I feel like an overgrown giant in that house, bumping up against the ceiling like Alice in Wonderland after she's found the cake labelled "Eat Me": head swollen with knowledge and imagination, body swollen with sensation and longing.

He was sleeping now, sedated, and it was not until late afternoon that he rose and came out to sit in the lounge, the side of his head swollen and bandaged.

But then again, when I moved to Baton Rouge in 1995, after having spent my life on the East Coast, my own head swelled, or perhaps spun would be a better word, as I had yet to learn how to take in my new, deeply religious Southern world.

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