swallow
Example Sentences
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Hours after that filing, the Federal Communications Commission’s Media Bureau in Washington approved Nexstar’s deal — clearing the way for the nation’s largest TV station group owner to swallow the third-largest station group.
From Los Angeles Times
Doctors have since moved his stomach up to bridge the "gap", but it's been a long road and he still has a feeding tube while he develops his swallowing.
From BBC
Paramount would have a bitter pill to swallow if regulators actually blocked the transaction.
I swallowed the last bit of cream bun, wiped my hands on the back of my skirt, and stood up.
From Literature
The economic and political pain of getting it back under control became tough to swallow.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
