Sentences with word «swallower»
A "swallower" is a word used to describe someone or something that can easily consume or take in something, usually by swallowing it. It refers to someone or something that has the ability to swallow objects or substances without difficulty. Full definition
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February 28th is International Sword Swallowers Awareness Day, according to practitioner Dan Meyer, who recently demonstrated the technique at the AAAS meeting in Chicago.
But don't go thinking for one hot New York minute that there aren't days that I don't morph from Mud Swallower into Mud Slinger — and then into a bit of a fake - hero Mud Runner.
To the left of the entrance is perhaps the boldest section — though the individual works are modest in scale — which leads with Arbus» Albino Sword Swallower at a Carnival (1970).
And the reason you can get energy out of a black hole, that swallower of all things, is that the energy you detect never really got into the black hole to begin with — it's associated with the space - time whirlpool created outside the event horizon by the black hole's rotation.
The black swallower's unique jaws and massive stomach allow it to swallow meals that are much larger than its own body.
February 28 is Sword Swallowers Awareness Day, when we pay thanks to the brave men and women whose art helped medical science.
«In 1868 Dr. Adolph Kussmaul at the University of Freiberg, Germany, developed the rigid endoscope, by using a sword swallower as his guinea pig.
I take pills pretty easily and down them three at a time, if you are not much of a pill swallower, (that may be a new word), this will be a challenge as you take 18 pills every day for the 10 days.
If he's a rock swallower, you may need to remove the rocks from your yard (now there's a task!).
Therefore, be sure to ask if the dog is a gulper or swallower before recommending a treat.
Set in Vietnam, the video follows a brass band and its charismatic bandmaster, often in concert with snake swallowers and fire eaters, through rituals and adventures — a funeral, a street festival and a muddy march into the sea.
Lyon's travels with Chicago biker gangs and Arbus's sword swallowers form a dramatic counterpoint to a trove of mid century images from Casa Susanna, a community of cross-dressers enjoying country life en femme.
I was much taken with the idea of becoming a sword swallower last night after seeing an item about sword swallowing on BBC London News.
And this world is kinda full of the resigned Mud Swallowers and the rebuking Mud Slingers and if you anoint yourself a fault - finder, you find yourself at fault in the end.
According to the website, where videos of acts can also be seen, The Amazement Show «features 10 astonishing illusions and jaw - dropping acts, including sword swallowers, fire eaters, trick ropers, contortionists, circus hula hoopers, snake charmers, a strongwoman, and more!»
And the reason you can getenergy out of a black hole, that swallower of all things, is that theenergy you detect never really got into the black hole to beginwith — it's associated with the space - time whirlpool created outside theevent horizon by the black hole's rotation.
Black swallowers, Chiasmodon niger, are characterized by their three canine teeth on either jaw.
That's what we're celebrating on February 28th, on Sword Swallowers Day.»
Some of us encounter such things in fellow believers, and we feel the way we do when we run into a sword - swallower at a wedding reception.
This year's show started with a circus theme, complete with acrobats and sword - swallowers.
I don't bother telling my Mama that there are days that I'm no victimized Mud Swallower, but I'm a flat - out villainous Mud Slinger who's a brazen blamer, blaming my people, and this world, and that situation, and when anyone blames others for the state of the world, they abdicate their own responsibility for changing the world.
When my mama opens up this new book of words, The Way of Abundance, and reads how all the pages are dedicated to her, I cup her face and I read to her the story that she's written with her days, a story different from being a Mud Swallower or Mud Slinger or Mud Runner, a story of surrendered givenness that has let the Potter shape and transform her into the beauty of cruciform.
This family - fun event features midway games and rides for all ages, favorite fair food and old - time sideshow acts under the big top, from sword swallowers and fire eaters to escape artists and other exciting acts.
She initially trained for more than six months with a master sword swallower to be able to insert a blade into her mouth, past the larynx and pharynx, through the esophagus, and into the stomach.
The Gag Artist Sword Swallower Charon Henning The body's intense and altogether understandable aversion to having a steel spike stuck down the throat is the greatest challenge facing Charon Henning, a renowned sword swallower.
In the 19th century, sword swallowers were enlisted to test the feasibility of shoving a long tube down the throat in the procedure now called endoscopy.
Sword swallowers have made important contributions to medicine — besides giving doctors work.
And sword swallowers have been used throughout the years as guinea pigs for the medical and science communities.
Legends abound that the Potomac River is a widowmaker, a childtaker, and a woman - swallower.
If a dog is a swallower that devours legs and wings in no time, it is a big problem that may end up with a hospitalized dog.
But, she reminded, if your dog is a swallower, it will swallow chunks of rawhide, too.
Phillips suggests not being obsessed with such extractions unless you know your dog is a swallower.
The place was a live - in hostel ($ 4 - 5 a night) full of traveling street merchants, artisans, jugglers, streetlight artists, fire breathers, sword swallowers and musicians.
Rodrigo is one of several circus acts expected to perform at this year's Bestival, including sword swallowers, acrobats and mutant jugglers.
Landlubbers Day also includes a mermaid grotto featuring photo opportunities with beautiful mermaids, and live street performances from a number of Seaport Village's talented buskers — from sword swallowers to rock balancers — along the boardwalk.
Drift deeper into these paintings with listening stations that feature an array of unexpected voices, ranging from a dog trainer and a ten - year old to a sword swallower and a landscape horticulturalist.
But the exhibition has many works that examine the non-political, works that stand at the intersection between art and life: a Robert Frank photograph of three members of a motorcycle crew, a Harry Callahan photograph of Cape Cod, a Diane Arbus photograph of an albino sword swallower.
Benjamin Berry, left, production manager for Hank Willis Thomas Studio, and Mr. Thomas with «The Sword Swallower,» a quilt by Mr. Thomas.
To celebrate the radical performance element of the works, which were painted with the artist's bare hands and feet and studded with razors and nails, circus performers including a sword swallower, a human cannon and two burlesque acrobats entertained diners.