How to use swallow in a sentence. To cause food, drink, pills, etc To move from your mouth into your stomach by using the muscles… Swallows have adapted to hunting insects on the wing by developing a slender, streamlined body and long, pointed wings, which allow great maneuverability and endurance, as well as frequent periods of gliding. To take into the stomach by drawing through the throat and esophagus with a voluntary muscular action, as food, drink, or other substances. Definition of swallow verb in oxford advanced learner's dictionary
Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more. To cause (food or drink, for example) to pass through the mouth and throat into the stomach To put up with (something unpleasant) Swallowed the insults and kept on working A building that was swallowed up by fire Physiology to take (food or liquid) down the throat with a muscular action
[no object] i tried to swallow, but my mouth was too dry. To take (something) into your stomach through your mouth and throat To move the muscles in your throat as if you are swallowing something often because you are nervous sometimes used figuratively If you swallow something, you cause it to go from your mouth down into your stomach.
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