Example Sentences

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But now there was this undeniable imperfection, a scratchiness and swollenness familiar only from the distant past.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2011

Grotesque in their swollenness but looking relaxed as though comforted in their family togetherness.

From Time Magazine Archive

When I sat up and ate, Mother held my potato-size foot and measured its swollenness.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat

In all cases rapid tannage was observed yielding firm and soft leathers of light brown colour and varying degrees of swollenness.

From Synthetic Tannins by Grasser, Georg

He looked at her hands, thin even in their swollenness, raw and bleeding, hard as a laborer’s on the palms.

From The Heart of Thunder Mountain by Fischer, Anton Otto