swell up

Example Sentences

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Mourners squeezed into Frimpong's home to pay their respects to her husband Malik Boahen, who had died earlier in February after his neck began to swell up.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026

Looking through history, Subramanian found that when leverage increases, earnings volatility and the risk of corporate profits disappointing also swell up.

From Barron's • Dec. 4, 2025

Relative sea levels along the U.S. coast have already climbed about a foot and could swell up to six more by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and methane are not significantly curbed.

From National Geographic • Feb. 9, 2024

Since these hydrogels are sticky and adhere to the skin and wound site, they stretch and expand the wound itself once they swell up after absorbing exudates.

From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2023

I could see the personal victory swell up in her whenever she had her sister’s great-grandson under her roof, at her table, or in front of her television.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia