sparrow vs swallow
Definitions
noun
- any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects
- small brownish European songbird
Examples
Thousands of householders are being urged to redesign their gardens to halt the rapid decline of sparrows and starlings.
Sparrows, chickadees, woodpeckers, and an assortment of other creatures were awake and bustling that summer morning.
The Little Sparrow," "Je Ne Regrette Rien", the tragic fate of her boxer-lover, do we really need to crank that victrola one more time -- haven't we had enough?
Definitions
noun
- small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations
- the act of swallowing
- a small amount of liquid food
verb
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
- engulf and destroy
- tolerate or accommodate oneself to
- keep from expressing
- utter indistinctly
Examples
We had a gam one day, on this voyage, with a Yankee whale-ship, and a first-rate gam it was, for, as the Yankee had gammed three days before with another English ship, we got a lot of news second-hand; and, as we had not seen a new face for many months, we felt towards those Yankees like brothers, and swallowed all they had to tell us like men starving for news.
While poor excommunicated Miss Tox, who, if she were a fawner and toad – eater, was at least an honest and a constant one, and had ever borne a faithful friendship towards her impeacher and had been truly absorbed and swallowed up in devotion to the magnificence of Mr
The pills should be swallowed whole.
