The story opens with the narrator telling the purportedly true events that happened to his friend Ivan Matveich, who is swallowed alive by a crocodile.
After teasing the crocodile, Ivan Matveich is swallowed alive.
They were swallowed alive, Steve, lost in that steel!
Lizards it will swallow alive but rodents it often constricts first.
In the case of the former defence secretary, the quest has proved nobler and the quarry easier to swallow alive.
Most smaller prey items are simply swallowed alive.
This snake is not a constrictor-most prey are grabbed and simply swallowed alive.
He felt as if he had been swallowed alive by some huge and monstrous beast.
The fantasy may sometimes involve the victim being swallowed dead or alive, and may or may not include digestion.
It is unnerving to read that a long, almost human scream in the night is a tree frog being swallowed alive by a snake.