Sentence examples for swallowed down from inspiring English sources

/ And best of all, the secret marrow, / the invaded privacy of the animal / prized out with a knife and swallowed down / with cold, exhilarating wine".

A loyalist of the time put it more bitterly: "If the Faction had told their deluded Followers, that an Army of 30,000 Men were crossing the Atlantick in Egg Shells, with a Design to roast the Inhabitants alive & eat them afterwards, the People would have first stared, & swallowed down the Tale, whole".

Think of it: pipes running through the earth below the frost line and up unseen from the basement right through the walls to bring you this transparent flow, which you swallowed down in rhythmic gulps — down what my grandfather called, with that twinkle he had, behind his bifocals, "the little red lane".

Think of it: pipes running through the earth below the frost line and up unseen from the basement right through the walls to bring you this transparent flow, which you swallowed down in rhythmic gulps down what my grandfather called, with that twinkle he had, behind his bifocals, "the little red lane".

Up until now, we'd swallowed down a hearty rumor stew, complete with trusted source claims, leaked beta sites, rumors, and pure speculation.

We hypothesized that CRS-derived microbial products (such as SEB) in nasal discharges could be swallowed down the gastrointestinal tract to disturb the immune homeostasis in the local tissue.

At these moments, our conversation falls into deep breaths and pauses, as she swallows down tears.

Dench plays spinsterish Barbara, a teacher nearing retirement, with the pinched, dyspeptic expression of someone determinedly swallowing down her disappointment with life.

But what could have been tedious – a whole lecture embedded in a novel – is turned into a hilarious scene where Beard is engaged in a losing battle with his bowels, trying to continue speaking while swallowing down "a fishy reflux rising from his gorge, like salted anchovies, with a dash of bile".

But when Winston swallows down his fears and goes on stage as Sophocles's outcast heroine, pleading bitterly for justice against the depredations of the powerful, it not only suggests how art can offer its own freedoms: it has the force of a wave crashing down on us all.

I'm thankful for the beer I'm swallowing down at two o'clock in the afternoon on a workday.