swollen

How To Use swollen In A Sentence

• My knee has swollen up and it is a bit stiff. The Sun
• Last night, a steady stream of people arrived at the evacuation centre in Brisbane's showground, only a few minutes' drive from the swollen river. Brisbane residents flee homes as floodwaters rise
• However, some patients seek help late in the season, when their symptoms have progressed from a runny nose to sticky yellow mucus with red, hot itchy and swollen eyes.
• They go in sheep's russet, many great men that might maintain themselves in cloth of gold, and seem to be dejected, humble by their outward carriage, when as inwardly they are swollen full of pride, arrogancy, and self-conceit. Anatomy of Melancholy
• The flesh around the ankle had swollen up.
• In some cases, such as when the swollen epiglottis blocks the windpipe, a tracheostomy may be performed.
• Her head is swollen and her tiny stomach distended.
• January, February, and March bring a great cold, and inhumane conditions of food and weather for the girls - long marches to church in the blistering cold wind, swollen and flayed fingers and feet, and chilblains on the hands.
• ‘It's just a matter of hours before she gives birth,’ Dominic Moss says excitedly as he peers at the bontebok's swollen belly.
• She was a Siamese, born to be sleekly elegant, and here she was, weighed down by this swollen bellyful of kittens. NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES