not swallow

Example Sentences

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Unlike a lot of people, though, I did not swallow the Kool-Aid.

From New York Times • May 22, 2024

But his futile effort reminds me of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s warning that “politics must not swallow up all of a people’s spiritual and creative energies.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2022

I could not swallow water for two weeks.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2022

"You should not swallow informational tranquilizers," Mikhail Khodaryonok, a retired colonel, told the "60 Minutes" talk show on Rossiya-1 hosted by Olga Skabeyeva, one of the most pro-Kremlin journalists on television.

From Reuters • May 17, 2022

I could not move my tongue, could not swallow.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie