swelling

How To Use swelling In A Sentence

• Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight. Looking for the Lost Greeks
• Sefelt has pulled back halfway normal, swelling up and down with big wet, rattling breaths.
• Swelling and bloating are often less troublesome if you avoid adding extra salt to food and steer clear of smoked meats and ready-cooked meals. The Sun
• The increasing swelling of an aneurysm of the aorta may press on the spine and chest organs.
• Her eyes missed nothing; her dainty close-set ears heard all -- the short, dry note of a chewink, the sweet, wholesome song of the cardinal, the thrilling cries of native jays and woodpeckers, the heavenly outpoured melody of the Florida wren, perched on some tiptop stem, throat swelling under the long, delicate, upturned bill. The Firing Line
• But after prescribing a special bath of roots and leaves that I bathed in every morning, the swelling of my body subsided.
• Antihistamines and calamine lotion can be used to bring down swelling and ease itching.
• The new buildings erected in the 1960s and 1970s were needed to accommodate the swelling numbers on the school roll.
• Also used were pin beaters, long pieces of bone with a central swelling and pointed ends for beating down individual threads.
• A dense wood will have proportionally more elasticity and resistance, but also a greater margin of shrinkage and swelling.