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104 examples of Swell in a sentence

The artists on the street will swell the ranks of the unemployed.
By recognizing that momentum, naming it and claiming it, they inevitably caused more live music venues to open, existing spaces to add live music to their repertoire, and they created a swell of civic buy-in around the idea, which meant that it wasn't just a slogan in some tourism pamphlet.
So, his already oily skin, together with a boost in oil and inflammation from stress, is the perfect environment for bacteria to swell, swell, swell up into a major zit.
In areas that are the most compressed, your nerves, arteries and veins can become blocked, which limits nerve signaling, causing the numbness, and reduces blood flow in your limbs, causing them to swell.
As for knuckle-cracking, one study suggests that all that joint stretching and bubble bursting can cause your hands to swell and weaken your grip.
Sodium electrolytes in the body become diluted, causing cells to swell.
That compound, which we're mildly allergic to, triggers the release of histamine, a chemical that makes our capillaries swell.
The first is the surge and swell, or the invisible underwater current that pushes the bits of particulate around in the water.
They can swell enormously when you add water to them, an experiment done by millions of kids every day.
It's a special kind of material that, when you add water, it will swell up enormously, maybe a thousand times in volume.
Because of irregularities in the seafloor and the swell itself, few barrels last as long as the legendary 27-second ride off the coast of Namibia.
That would be swell.
The spot where the spittle landed immediately began to swell and sting.
Personally, I plan to be cremated, but given that I get seasick, I can think of nothing worse than having my ashes flung into a huge ocean swell.
Not only him but Louis Gosset JR. does a swell job.
The psychology in this crisp antique, one of Warners' many efforts to assert its place as the "socially conscious" studio, doesn't run deep: Digges is bad just because the script requires him to be, and there's the quaint notion that juvenile delinquents will turn into swell kids if they're just given a dash of autonomy.
And so in light of this, this short clip of a movie is pretty swell stuff and might just make you laugh.
The other actors also do a swell job, in many of their first time debuts.
The dastardly CAM is finally dealt to by an old frail-in a manner that would have made Charles Bronson's heart swell with pride-six bullets in the breadbasket.In an ensuing chase a pursuer gets hold of one of Watson's shoes.Mercifully the writer didn't decide to tack on the story of Cinderella to lengthen the film.The murderess,Holmes and Watson,escape scot free.
Whenever the music suddenly begins to swell ... Syberberg keeps the cast moving at the same pace.
All the heroes, except Segal's character and his dusky girlfriend, die heroically and Steve-Baby save the whole world in one swell foop, or fell swoop.
Yup! Thats swell!
Pat O'Brien plays pretty much the same character he played in MANY other films (you know, the tough-talking, hard-driven but "swell guy").
I think the ground swell of discontent has been there for the past few years with very premature cancellation's of numerous shows with a cult following.
Though the film features relatively little action and some perhaps ill advised cheesy pop songs at times, this is a beautiful piece of entertainment, with swell characters and plotting, even the odd neat character arc, a near constant supply of visual treats and copious dreamy atmosphere.
The naked for the hell of it zombies are swell, and the movie delivers more than a few decent chuckles.
Well that wasn't swell.
The film ends in the 70's with the 'Big Wednesday' moment - a gigantic swell on the coast.
Following the lives of three friends from 1962 to the "great swell" of 1974, this is a beautifully shot movie with warm characters that you grow to really care about.
And there's this blue crystal that can raise the dead (kinda), make the living swell up and burst, and shoot a blue beam that makes things 'splode real good.
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