Sentence examples for swelled like a from inspiring English sources

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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.

Behind me, the Wind River range sheared blackly against a moonlit sky and, out in front, the high plains swelled like a great, dark sea.

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So my face began to swell like a balloon.

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

"It swells like a great grey bubble," wrote Virginia Woolf admiringly in a 1930s essay.

The sky is a little more appealing, filled with a cloud swollen like a donkey's paunch.

"An anonymous turkey shows up at my door, swollen like a baboon, and I'm supposed to eat it?

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