not swallow

Example Sentences

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Unlike a lot of people, though, I did not swallow the Kool-Aid.

From New York Times • May 22, 2024

But his futile effort reminds me of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s warning that “politics must not swallow up all of a people’s spiritual and creative energies.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2022

"You should not swallow informational tranquilizers," Mikhail Khodaryonok, a retired colonel, told the "60 Minutes" talk show on Rossiya-1 hosted by Olga Skabeyeva, one of the most pro-Kremlin journalists on television.

From Reuters • May 17, 2022

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy unveiled a plan to pay for the state’s rail, road and bridge needs on Wednesday, a plan that the legislature will certainly not swallow whole.

From Washington Times • Feb. 2, 2018

But when he tried to eat the flesh of his ox his gorge rose and he could not swallow it and he drank only a little of the soup.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck