"swallow" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A footnote points out that while popular tradition has it that a whale swallowed Jonah, the text identifies the beast as merely a "fish."
- But she comforts herself later since it was God's order to swallow Jonah.
- Well, the whale swallowed Jonah, and she swallowed them; and they all went down, the whole lot of 'em, poor fellers!'
- Rolf, what fish did swallow Jonah?
- A big fish or whale (of unspecified species) did indeed swallow Jonah.
- In another publication he also noted that "the whale shark is not the fish that swallowed Jonah."
- The cruising cab had gulped The Shadow like the whale that swallowed Jonah.
- A great sea creature sent by God, swallows Jonah.
- The Pirates attempt to reel him back in, but a whale swallows Jonah.
- The pain has swallowed her as the whale reputedly swallowed Jonah, that holy draft-dodger.
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