Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: swallows
IPA transcription: [sw'ɑloʊz]
Usage examples
  • We'll escape tonight even if the sea swallows us up!"
  • For these are the swallows going back. Swallows, I thank you for waiting for us.
  • No one but the watchdog and the swallows knew her, and they were only dumb animals and could say nothing.
  • FAR away in the land to which the swallows fly when it is winter, dwelt a king who had eleven sons, and one daughter named Eliza.
  • And although swallows are not very strong when only one or two are by themselves, it is different when there are a great lot of them together.
  • If I tell the reader of a cat that is so clever that she can catch swallows on the wing, I suppose I may be allowed to close this chapter in peace.
  • One of these nests, which has become famous, produced "the swallows of the bridge of Arcola." This is, moreover, the most disastrous of social symptoms.
  • Then the ends of these strings were tied on to the front of the ship; and the swallows took hold of the strings with their feet and flew off, pulling the boat along.
  • When the swallows heard this, they all came down on to the Doctor's ship; and they told him to unravel some pieces of long rope and make them into a lot of thin strings as quickly as he could.
  • 'But pay your debts!' cried honest Paul. 'My gentle Peter, pay your debts! What matter if it swallows all That you describe as your "assets"? Already you're an hour behind: Yet Generosity is best. It pinches me--but never mind! I WILL NOT CHARGE YOU INTEREST!'