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.
swallow-like
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a word derived from
swallow.
Example Sentences
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Professor Laski, who has been skimming, swallow-like, from one European socialist conference to another, was also irresistibly attracted.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes it skitters exhilaratingly around its bright upper reaches, then makes darting swallow-like swoops into the dark, resonant chest-tone regions of a Marilyn Home.
From Time Magazine Archive
Restrain the swallow-like flights of your admittedly brilliant eyes, and control the movements of your expressive fan within the narrowest bounds of necessity.
From Kai Lung's Golden Hours by Ernest Bramah
It roves the locality, returning, swallow-like, to the close-fitting hollow of the root.
From Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
I mused, as Vibert, after some graceful swallow-like flights on the keyboard, finally played that most dolorously delicious of Chopin's nocturnes, the one in C sharp minor.
From Melomaniacs by James Huneker
