swollen rivers and creeks. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"Look at how my mouth sticks out," he said of what he described as his swollen face. From Wordnik.com. [Press of Atlantic City: Editorials] Reference
There are pictures of me as a child with my eye all swollen from a bug bite. From Wordnik.com. [Peace In A Dyson | Her Bad Mother] Reference
He was home last night, still a little druggy and his mouth is very swollen from the surgery and packing. From Wordnik.com. [No more surgeries, please « Lab Kat] Reference
A ballplayer, even those painful visits to the trainer's room to drain swollen knees. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Gwynn's long run of hits is ending] Reference
It was completely sealed shut and this side was really kind of swollen and this side was. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2002] Reference
There is a better way to check "swollen" fortunes than by ruining the health of "fortune's children.". From Wordnik.com. [Civics and Health] Reference
City of London watchdog makes a radical call to curb a 'swollen'. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Tax them, not us, interest groups say to Congress' health proposals] Reference
It cited some patient complaints about allergic reactions to the Invisalign trays such as swollen lips and mouth ulcers. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
It looks like I don't need stitches but the wound is kind of swollen and I can see a little of the skin tissue when I bend my thumb. From Wordnik.com. [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference
A single tear streaked from his swollen eye and down his cheek. From Wordnik.com. [Nothing To Lose?] Reference
My eyes were swollen and my face splotched from all the crying. From Wordnik.com. [Sex, Lies And Me] Reference
Maybe it's those swollen coffers that have staffers playing so nicely. From Wordnik.com. [A Kinder, Gentler Face For The Irs] Reference
Many have been overwhelmed by a swollen inventory of unmet social needs. From Wordnik.com. [Falling On Hard Times: Four States Of Siege] Reference
There's the 3-year-old boy with eyes swollen shut by a huge double shiner. From Wordnik.com. [If I Told You, Would You Want To Hear?] Reference
His fontanel, the "soft spot" on the top of the head, was swollen and hard. From Wordnik.com. [Sentenced to Live] Reference
A protein deficiency had swollen her ankles and covered her body in a serious rash. From Wordnik.com. [A Human Horror Story] Reference
And, of course, swollen gas prices must be ruining the industry's bottom line, right?. From Wordnik.com. [The Next Big Thing Is ... The Bus?] Reference
A few days later she had a biopsy to find out why the glands in her throat were swollen. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Woman] Reference
Start with grisly slides of gangrenous limbs and feet swollen with fungus-filled nodules. From Wordnik.com. [The Curious Case of the Calamitous Cannabis] Reference
He will have to bring down soaring inflation by controlling the swollen government budget. From Wordnik.com. [Yeltsin's Free-Market Offensive] Reference
He showed the swollen cut to a Linfen hospital doctor, who advised simply to keep the wound clean. From Wordnik.com. [Facing A Demon] Reference
My digestive tract had become so inflamed and swollen that I ended up in the hospital for almost a week. From Wordnik.com. [Gut Reaction] Reference
He attempted to put ice on her eyes, which were swollen with tears, and pleaded with her to stay and talk. From Wordnik.com. [Kobe Off The Court] Reference
If the site becomes extremely red or swollen, or if flu symptoms develop, patients should seek medical care promptly. From Wordnik.com. [A Mean Strain Of Strep] Reference
Her eye is swollen from this morning's shoot, when Sheridan threw some cornstarch in her face as part of a fight scene. From Wordnik.com. [Sex and The Suburbs] Reference
All it took was that one fleeting moment, Nixon's face close-up on camera, swollen and full of self-loathing and defeat. From Wordnik.com. [Nixon and Bush] Reference
"They leave no peace anywhere," said Salimkhan Timurziyev, 30, his right eye swollen and bloody after a week's captivity. From Wordnik.com. [Dire Tales Of A Dirty War] Reference
There are no wailing babies with swollen bellies, no violent political uprisings and nary a hemorrhagic fever to be found. From Wordnik.com. [Put On a Happy Face] Reference
The rhetoric of "compassion" that fueled the growth of swollen welfare states was partly a product of the culture of guilt. From Wordnik.com. [The Journey Up From Guilt] Reference
The presence of the metal may cause allergic contact dermatitis, which can leave you with swollen, reddened and itchy skin. From Wordnik.com. [Can Earrings Cause Skin Irritation?] Reference
Four years of eye-popping stock performance has hugely swollen the portfolios of these tax-exempt charitable organizations. From Wordnik.com. [What A Nice Problem] Reference
The plaintiffs blunted his denial the first time by showing blown-up pictures of Nicole's swollen, bruised face during his testimony. From Wordnik.com. [The Trial Winds Down] Reference
This was AstroTurf, not grass roots; the ground has swollen in Florida courtesy of what were known in the 1960s as "outside agitators.". From Wordnik.com. [Far From The Madding Crowd] Reference
By the time two brothers and two friends finally rescued her, Marta's right leg was so swollen and infected that it had to be amputated. From Wordnik.com. [Fields Of Death] Reference
Her husband rushed her to Mercy where Behr was admitted to the ICU with a swollen liver, erratic blood counts and lungs filling with fluid. From Wordnik.com. [A Toxic Spew?] Reference
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