For powder packets, empty the entire contents of the packet onto the tongue and swallow.

He began to drink, downing the contents of each beaker in one long swallow.

If you have difficulty swallowing the capsule whole, the capsule can be opened and the contents sprinkled on a soft food - such as pudding or applesauce - and swallowed.

She took a small stone bottle I had never seen before from the carved wooden chest that held her personal belongings, and drank its contents in one long swallow.

But on occasion form swallows content, as in some silk-screen images of graphs, charts and calculations printed on sailcloth and stretched over circular frames.

Brock lifted his glass of port to his mouth and consumed the contents in one long swallow, hoping to drive the echo of Maddie's voice from his head.