She gagged again, and swallowed, and her teeth chattered like dice being shaken.

NEWYORKER: I.D.

She came to rest before a wide-paneled window and swallowed, her throat squeezing behind a brooch of diamonds thick as a clenched fist.

NPR: Elevating the World's Oldest Profession in Chicago

Ms Bravo may yet find that she has pulled Burberry from the obscure depths of one conglomerate, only to see it swallowed up by another.

ECONOMIST: Face value

"Bank cards were being swallowed by bank machines, and there were problems with the online and telephone banking systems, " she said.

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