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How To Use well up In A Sentence

• The footwell was perpetually swamped now, my forearms were pumped from choking the oars in a death grip, and dime-size blisters had begun to well up under the calluses on my palms.
• Panic began to well up in me, and I spent vital seconds cursing myself for having thick burglar-proof bars fitted over the glass. A CONVICTION OF GUILT
• Her eyes had begun to swell up again, why he was making her cry like this, she didn't know.
• The children were constantly coughing, had runny noses, and their eyes would swell up.
• They might dwell upon the fact that you were so much together, and that you had such opportunities -- mark me, Reginald, _opportunities_ -- for tampering with the one solitary life which stood between you and fortune. Run to Earth A Novel
• Then we saw the alligator swell up.
• Tolstoy tried to mix domesticity and family life, but he would come downstairs after writing and see his family playing and his eyes would well up.
• And poke out his eye, and swell up his tongue?
• When you develop a throat infection or catch a cold the glands in the neck swell up.
• The sound reproduction is quite good, too, in spite of some odd balances: certain brass instruments are pushed back too far, while the clarinet and other less voluminous instruments are well up front.