swallow
verb (used with object)
to take into the stomach by drawing through the throat and esophagus with a voluntary muscular action, as food, drink, or other substances.
am swallowing
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present progressiveof swallow (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I am swallowing by gasps that cauldrony beverage of selfish passion and morbid taste, the letters of Lespinasse.
From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger
I find I am swallowing good and hard, and several of the others look sick, especially Lennie.
From The Lost Kafoozalum by Pauline Ashwell
What is it I am "swallowing"? "the whole" what? the evidence? or the miracles?
From Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
The doctor comes while I am swallowing my egg, miserably yet with a certain gusto, and I dry my eyes hastily as I hear him bounding up the stairs.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 18, 1917 by Various
