Their numbers quickly swelled and a general strike and protests were called for the next day.

A small crowd was gathering, its ranks swelling quickly.

A cheer rose from the crowd, swelling quickly to a roar.

In a military emergency, the island could quickly swell with planes, submarines, and ships.

The number of their congregations quickly swelled from 20 in 1555 to 64 in 1570.

As more people searched for an ethnic identity, numbers in some groups swelled quickly.

Harvard Pilgrim is quickly swelling the ranks of its minority physicians, too.

The package quickly swelled in the water like a lump of rising dough.

Sales grew, quickly swelling to over 75,000 copies in just over few months.

It remained a small community until the 1990s, when new residential development began and the population quickly swelled.