Explore Swellings through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Swellings meaning
plural of swelling
Using Swellings
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of swelling
- In the example corpus, swellings often appears in combinations such as: swellings in, lingual swellings, swellings on.
Context around Swellings
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Swellings
- In this selection, "swellings" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, lingual, small, lateral, distal, weight and hairs stand out and add context to how "swellings" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include buboes or swellings in the and caused by swellings hairs grooves. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "swellings" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with swellings
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Cheerleaders might have swellings. (4 words)
These small swellings may break and bleed into nearby tissue. (10 words)
He had multiple bruises, swellings and abrasions on his face and head. (12 words)
Check your breasts: Both men and women should be aware of the signs of breast cancer, which are lumps, inverted nipples, fluid oozing from the nipple, a sore or rash around the nipple, hard, red skin, swellings or lumps in the armpit. (42 words)
Sprat regarded "fine speaking" as a disease, and thought that a proper style should "reject all amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style" and instead "return back to a primitive purity and shortness" (History of the Royal Society, 1667). (38 words)
So when my legs started to develop little swellings, like boils, I didn't think much of it," the octogenarian says as she sits on a papyrus mat in the centre of a compound of mud houses. (37 words)
Example sentences (18)
In the fifth week a pair of lateral swellings, the lateral lingual swellings (distal tongue buds) one on the right side and one on the left, form on the first pharyngeal arch.
Check your breasts: Both men and women should be aware of the signs of breast cancer, which are lumps, inverted nipples, fluid oozing from the nipple, a sore or rash around the nipple, hard, red skin, swellings or lumps in the armpit.
Mumps is a viral infection which can lead to painful swellings on the side of the face and under the ears.
Side effects of lorlatinib included swellings, weight gain and mental health problems such as depression.
So when my legs started to develop little swellings, like boils, I didn't think much of it," the octogenarian says as she sits on a papyrus mat in the centre of a compound of mud houses.
Cheerleaders might have swellings.
As Enki lacks a womb with which to give birth, he seems to be dying with swellings.
Consuming his own semen, he falls pregnant (ill with swellings) in his jaw, his teeth, his mouth, his hip, his throat, his limbs, his side and his rib.
He had multiple bruises, swellings and abrasions on his face and head.
Increased surface area and irregularity of the pollen receptacle, caused by swellings, hairs, grooves or ridges often ensure a more efficient pollen deposition.
In Italy, embryonic buds, which form small swellings on the stems, are carefully excised and planted under the soil surface, where they soon form a vigorous shoot.
Mucinous, clear secretions may collect within these cysts to form either spherical masses or fusiform swellings, rarely larger than 2 to 3 cm in diameter.
Sprat regarded "fine speaking" as a disease, and thought that a proper style should "reject all amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style" and instead "return back to a primitive purity and shortness" (History of the Royal Society, 1667).
Swellings in the body wall develop into either a simple ovary or testes.
The buboes, or swellings in the groin, that are especially characteristic of bubonic plague, are a feature of other diseases as well.
These lingual swellings quickly expand and cover the tuberculum impar and continue to develop through prenatal development.
These small swellings may break and bleed into nearby tissue.
Trumpets from the Oxus civilization (3rd millennium BC) of Central Asia have decorated swellings in the middle, yet are made out of one sheet of metal, which is considered a technical wonder.
Common combinations with swellings
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- swellings in 4×
- lingual swellings 2×
- swellings on 2×
- with swellings 2×
- small swellings 2×