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• Swollen breasts, morning sickness, and a missed period are classic symptoms of pregnancy.From the entry symptom
• Unlike chimpanzees, whose females have bright red swollen buttocks when ovulating, females in humans evolved to have concealed ovulation, and do not have any perceptible signs that indicate their fertility.From the entry concealed ovulation
• Even with a swollen field, just getting here is an accomplishment.2026 June 21, John Powers, “The World Cup group stage was supposed to be a feeding frenzy. So far, not so much.”, in The Boston Globe…. From the entry cleat
• It is often characterised by swollen feet, but can also cause barnacle-like growths and club-like hands.2025 April 26, Agence France-Presse, “Only global research unit on tropical skin disease becomes casualty of war”, in South China Morning…. From the entry mycetoma
• Her swollen “button” hitting his glossa tip provided wave after wave of full body pleasure.2016, Dr. JD Philip, “The Wedding”, in Victoria: A Pirate Romance, Charlotte Publishing Press, →ISBN, page 230. From the entry glossa
• The watered cactus was a paler green, its trunk visibly swollen with moisture.2013, Leslie Morgan Steiner, The Baby Chase. From the entry pale
• Her lips were swollen real bad and it looked like she had the sun fever.2013, Carole A. Powell, Turnabout, page 31. From the entry sun fever
• These may be very elongate (longicone) or short and rather swollen (brevicone).2013 July 23, E. N. K. Clarkson, Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN. From the entry ectocochlear
• He may well need a wheelbarrow to get his swollen undercarriage to training!2011 November 3, “Daggers draw provides chance to hit Bullseye”, in Bath Chronicle. From the entry giggleberries
• Leaving plaque along the gumline leaves gums swollen and inflamed and apt to bleed.2007 December 20, Martha Schindler Connors, “Pearly Wisdom”, in New York Times. From the entry gumline
• She had cold sores on her upper lip which made her mouth look swollen and ugly.1985, Bernard MacLaverty, Short story, 'Across the Street', Irish Times Summer Stories. (Also published in 'The Great Profundo and Other…. From the entry breathy
• The stem of swamp tupelo is commonly less swollen than water tupelo but tapers more gradually.1982, J. R. Saucier, Tupelo: An American Wood. From the entry swamp tupelo
• The corneae were swollen without major infiltrates similar to longstanding disciform edema.1981, R. Sundmacher, D. Neumann-Haefelin, A. Mattes, K. Cantell, “Connatal Monosymptomatic Corneal Endotheliitis by Cytomegalovirus”, in…. From the entry cornea
• One of the rocks seemed to have podded into something swollen, black and smooth.1939, Leonard Alfred George Strong, The Open Sky, page 64. From the entry pod
• The “swollen fortune” is not a thing of absolute magnitude, but entirely a matter of comparative size.1921 July, Arthur Jerome Eddy, “Introduction”, in Property, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., →OCLC, page 12. From the entry ten-thousandaire
• Below, the swollen Eden, lipping full from bank to bank, rolled yellow and surly to the sea.1903, Robert Barr, Over the Border, London: Isbister, Book 4, Chapter 7, p. 375. From the entry lip
• I can’t let the reporters see him looking like this anyway, so swollen that CPS would be here before dinner.2022, Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling, Bloomsbury, page 226. From the entry cps
• My left ankle is swollen with two mosquito bites.2022 November 26, Virginia Feito, “Sweating Through a Honeymoon in Paradise”, in The New York Times. From the entry skeeter syndrome
• Swollen beetroot-red bulbs half-heaved from the soil, tempting greedy fingers to cup and pluck them out of the earth.2019 November 11, Derek Niemann, “Country diary: a delayed harvest after the frost”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London…. From the entry beetroot-red
• That's when the doctors found out that my throat was very burned and swollen, and that I was not lying.2017, Brian Soto, My Life with Tumors & Cancer. From the entry burned
• No longer able to wear white socks and slippers, she wore Tet Hose that sausaged her swollen feet and legs.2012, Mary Elizabeth Moloney, Elizabeth: Learning to Dress Myself from the Inside Out, Heart Whisperings, →ISBN, page 253. From the entry sausage
• The woman’s knees were swollen, misshapen knobs of bone.2010, Bruce Macbain, Roman Games, Poisoned Pen Press, →ISBN, page 181. From the entry potioner
• Red lipsticked, smelling strongly of talc, showing off a swollen, sneakered foot, she proclaimed herself “the queen of fashion, and Mr.2008 February 8, Susan Dominus, “A New York Fashion Icon, and Yet a Man of Mystery”, in New York Times. From the entry sneakered
• By the time the last deer was debrained, Susannah’s fingers were so sore and swollen she could hardly bend them.2004, Stephen King, “Hides”, in The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower, New York: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 796. From the entry debrain
• The leech on his leg had swelled to more than five inches long, puffed and swollen on his blood.2003, William W. Johnstone, The Last Of The Dog Team, page 195. From the entry leech
• Half your bones are busted, your body is swollen like one huge mosquito bite, and you're nearly starved to death.2001, Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-06-073400-8; republished New York, N.Y.…. From the entry mosquito bite
• Rarely, a dense, swollen neglected cataract precipitates an angle-closure glaucoma.1999, Cynthia Mattox, Helen K. Wu, Joel S. Schuman, “Ocular Disorders of Aging”, in Joseph J. Gallo, Jan Busby-Whitehead, Peter V. Rabins…. From the entry cataract
• I was nonplussed, I stared at my teacher, never before had his swollen face seemed so replete with indifference, stone ataraxy.1993, Will Self, My Idea Of Fun. From the entry ataraxy
• His feet and hands are swollen far beyond normal size.1988 February 14, Marea Murray, “Friction Between The Factions”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 30, page 6. From the entry lose it
• Her bioneered organs were swollen to immense proportions and hundreds of liters of blood pumped through her extensive circulatory system.1975, Thomas F. Monteleone, edited by Roger Elwood, Dystopian visions, page 3. From the entry bioneer
• The common "phantom cranefly" may be easily recognized by the black and white banded legs and conspicuously swollen basitarsi.1943 (1966 reprint), Charles P. Alexander, Guide to the Insects of Connecticut Part VI, First Fascicle, page 187. From the entry phantom crane fly
• The “swollen fortune” is a fact in our economic development.1921 July, Arthur Jerome Eddy, “Introduction”, in Property, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., →OCLC, page 12. From the entry ten-thousandaire
• So he became swollen with pride, forgot it was I that had placed him there, and made preparations to destroy me.1901, Jack London, A Hyperborean Brew. From the entry turn someone's head
• She’d had to sit out the rest of the race, a handkerchief filled with slightly lemonadey ice pressed against her swollen ankle.2020, Lisa Swift, chapter 30, in The School of Starting Over, Hera, →ISBN. From the entry lemonadey
• Within fifteen minutes, Carmichael had three broken ribs, a broken arm, a cracked cheekbone, a badly swollen eye, and was minus five teeth.2013, John Gardner, Moriarty. From the entry fanning
• Its forums are swollen with refugees of various online worlds, all with harrowing stories of runaway gaming habits, lives ruined, friends lost, marriages broken.2003 April 3, David McCandless, “Just one more go…”, in The Guardian. From the entry heroinware
• Her stomach was swollen, and she was only a bag of bones, with a large head like a toadpole in the Oitino stream.1989, Okot p'Bitek, “Section 3”, in White Teeth, reprint edition, Heinemann Kenya, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry toadpole
• His berylline flesh was swollen about it, as I have seen the bark of a tree swollen that had grown through an iron ring.1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter III, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry berylline
• The share of preferences going from the Progress Party to the Democrats was swollen, if not almost wholly accounted for, by donkey votes.1979, Howard Rae Penniman, editor, The Australian National Elections of 1977, page 325. From the entry donkey vote
• Body of typical nematodelike appearance in free-living forms, swollen in the females of some plant-parasitic species, but without large swollen cells inside.1935, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian miscellaneous collections, volume 89, page 33. From the entry nematodelike

Meaning of swollen

1. adjective Protuberant or abnormally distended (as by injury or disease).

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Questions about swollen in a sentence

How do you use swollen in a sentence?

Swollen is used as an adjective. For example: “Swollen breasts, morning sickness, and a missed period are classic symptoms of pregnancy.”

What is a short sentence with swollen?

“My left ankle is swollen with two mosquito bites.”

What does swollen mean?

Swollen means protuberant or abnormally distended (as by injury or disease).