Sentence examples for swelled like from inspiring English sources

Graduate schools have swelled like refugee camps.

Mr. Schwarzenegger, crusader against waste, swelled like a water balloon.

The people embraced London 2012 with a spontaneity that swelled like a great tide.

Florence Shaul's face swelled like a chipmunk as she discovered she had picked up mumps.

By then my knee was in agony and my ankle swelled like a balloon.

But in October 2001, after the couple had lived together for six months, the topic swelled like a tsunami.

So my face began to swell like a balloon.

Then his fingers "began to swell like loaves of bread".

The area of infection is first reddened and then swollen like a pimple or small boil.

He looks terrible, his nose red, his eyes swollen like little ravioli.

The intestine can swell like this when it is obstructed or inflamed.