Sentence examples for swelled slightly from inspiring English sources

His abdomen swelled slightly from the bleeding within.

The hand swelled slightly Sunday, but Pettitte played catch Monday and reported no problems.

Brady said his ankle swelled slightly after practice on Wednesday and that it was a little tender today.

I poked my little infusing gun into the bottom of the cake three times, and then injected them with cream until the cake sort of swelled slightly in my hand.

Our file of childish effusions has been swelled slightly by this poem from the pen of a 7-year-old boy who is plainly headed for the couch: Nobody comes to our house that I like, Nobody comes to our house that I like, Nobody comes to our house that I like, And I don't like this house either.

By John McCarten The New Yorker, November 23, 1963 P. 46 Our file of childish effusions has been swelled slightly by this poem from the pen of a 7-year-old boy who is plainly headed for the couch: Nobody comes to our house that I like, Nobody comes to our house that I like, Nobody comes to our house that I like, And I don't like this house either.

The columns of the outer colonnade, which appear to be perfectly straight, actually swell slightly at the center.

Initially muscles may be swollen slightly, and the first symptoms to appear are usually muscle weakness and sometimes pain.

Insert pastry tip into this hole, and pipe in lemon cream until bottom of cake begins to swell slightly.

Each cup swells slightly at the middle, so that a "bottle" of Electric Sky looks a bit like the Very Hungry Caterpillar.

He knew that strokes are often one-sided; that they result in the subtle "graying" of tissue; that the tissue often swells slightly, causing a loss of anatomical borders.