Sentence examples for time to swallow from inspiring English sources

"The majority hardly take the time to swallow their food.

We have to give the conservatives time to swallow the bitter pill of their defeat".

It's time to swallow the pill we've been holding under our tongue for 200 years: we live in a party system.

There were moments I had to eat candy, and I would have a mouth full of saliva, but no time to swallow it – so I had to learn to perform through moments like that.

"Although the leadership would have intellectually prepared for this result, the reality will take time to swallow, and it will make for many complications," the researcher at a government research agency said.

Beckett, as the new housing minister, still has time to swallow her pride (or rather her predecessor Caroline Flint's pride) and turn that target into a hope not an expectation, too.

His condition had been "touch and go" for a couple of weeks, he explained, pausing several times to swallow back tears.

And look at his use of the present tense: the state of nature is not something back in the past, before society developed; it is there all the time, ready to swallow us up.

To ensure that natural occlusion was evaluated, the child was asked to open and close his/her mouth several times and to swallow saliva before the examination began.

Nokia and Siemens have been trying to sell their joint venture, which was originally formed in 2007, for some time now, but it looks like it's having a tough time convincing anyone to swallow it whole.

And private equity firms can again borrow money, though often only enough to buy one business at a time rather than to swallow a conglomerate whole and conduct the breakup themselves.