How to Use swallow in a Sentence

swallow

1 of 2 verb

• He swallowed the grape whole.
• Chew your food well before you swallow.
• Her story is pretty hard to swallow.
• The boss said, “Come in.” I swallowed hard and walked in.
• I can usually take criticism, but this is more than I can swallow.
• This can be a hard pill to swallow.
  — Margie Warrell, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• One of them swallowed a dump truck.
  — Nick Caloway, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2026
• So, that was tough to swallow first.
  — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• Duke swallowed an olive the size of my head.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2026
• That's a tough pill to swallow.
  — Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
• This is not gonna be an easy pill to swallow.
  — Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
• So that’s a hard thing to swallow.
  — Matt Slater, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
• Yeah, you can get swallowed by a sperm whale.
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2026
• Then the path swallowed by brush.
  — Roey Leonardi, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2026
• They shouldn’t be swallowed whole.
  — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
• This team’s lack of depth would make that an easy pill to swallow.
  — Tashan Reed, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
• Because grief was not a thing to be swallowed whole.
  — Literary Hub, 11 Feb. 2026
• And it's been a pretty hard pill to swallow.
  — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2025
• That’s a tough pill to swallow for many people.
  — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
• Fangs tend to turn up in snake poop after they are swallowed.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
• In one snippet, he’s swallowed by a crowd of fans.
  — Kenneal Patterson, Vanity Fair, 9 June 2026
• Let your past teach you lessons rather than swallowing you whole.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2023
• But hard truths aren’t always easy to swallow.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
• The soft gels are small and easy to swallow for most people as well.
  — Kelsey Kunik, Rd, Health, 25 July 2023
• The tablets are fairly easy to swallow.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2026
• But chef Chung couldn’t swallow, eat, drink or talk for months.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas Morning News, 4 Feb. 2026
• Large players will swallow small ones.
  — Robert Hoban, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
• To keep the dress from swallowing you whole, cinch at the waist with a thick belt.
  — Katherine J Igoe, InStyle, 4 Jan. 2026
• And while all three were close, this will prove to be the toughest one to swallow.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2024
• Brith has swallowed her father’s ring.
  — Maggie O’Farrell, Literary Hub, 2 June 2026

swallow

2 of 2 noun

• Mouth sores Eat soft foods that are easy to chew and swallow.
  — CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
• But it's taken us a swallow in our pride, a time or two to show up.
  — Danielle Minnetian, FOXNews.com, 5 Mar. 2026
• Keep an eye out for the cave swallow, canyon wren and rock wren near the cave entrance.
  — Anna Mazurek, Chron, 2 Jan. 2023
• Back at Cala d'Istria, there are swallows swirling en masse.
  — Catherine Fairweather, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 July 2025
• On the leisurely float, keep your eyes peeled for great blue herons, swallows and wood ducks.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 May 2023
• There are about 86 species of swallows worldwide.
  — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 21 Mar. 2026
• Your goal should be to arrive at the next water source with a swallow left—no more, no less.
  — Outside Online, 28 Mar. 2022
• Marcela took a long swallow and nodded to Jarda.
  — Zuzana Říhová, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
• All those pitheads, the mouths of which swallow men whole every morning.
  — Literary Hub, 6 Feb. 2026
• Only one tank, which has been taken over by swallows, remains.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
• Then there was her green brocade dress with a beaded belt of indigo swallows.
  — Literary Hub, 26 Mar. 2026
• Elsewhere, swallows flashed across the surface of the water.
  — Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
• One swallow allegedly does not make a summer.
  — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
• One day a swallow, already late on its migration south to Egypt, takes refuge at its base.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
• The barn swallow is the most abundant and widely distributed swallow species in the world.
  — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 21 Mar. 2026
• The drawings represent snakes that swallow scenes played by skeletons.
  — K. Desbouis, Artforum, 6 Feb. 2026
• The front of the coin was ground down so that it could be engraved with this awe-inspiring scene of a swallow, flowers and leaves.
  — Beth Bernstein, Forbes, 24 June 2021
• So the statue is melted down for its metal, except for the heart, which is tossed on the same trash heap as the swallow’s body.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
• But just as one swallow doesn’t make the spring, perhaps one report shouldn’t turn everybody back into a hawk.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2022
• In the spring, all is awash with green and swooped by swallows, and the many roads and hiking trails are beautifully edged with flowers.
  — Helen Brown, TheWeek, 30 Apr. 2026
• An angry deity hurled a firebrand at the swallow, singeing away its middle tail feathers.
  — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 21 Mar. 2026
• In April, hundreds of viewers watched the two-week-old eaglet swallow a fishhook that one of its parents had fed it.
  — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 25 June 2026
• The dino can run, jump, flutter in the air, ground pound, swallow enemies, and throw eggs, all standard parts of his toolkit.
  — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 19 May 2026
• The cat should automatically close its mouth and swallow.
  — Joan Morris, Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2025
• The Mule Mountains in summer swallow mercy.
  — Masha Hamilton, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2026
• This leads to worsening loss of movement, impairing the ability to walk, use the hands and arms, speak, chew, and swallow.
  — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 20 Feb. 2026
• But their underlying engine was the swallow-a-fly theory.
  — Stephanie A, The Conversation, 22 Jan. 2026
• Cliff swallows traditionally built their nests on vertical cliff faces.
  — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 21 Mar. 2026
• With a deep swallow, Perry snaps a pic of the boy's face before helping the coroner remove the stitches from his eyelids.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 22 June 2020
• This slowly strips a person’s ability to walk, talk, eat, dress, write, speak, swallow and, eventually, breathe.
  — Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 20 Feb. 2026