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  1. swallows

    The swallows, martins, and saw-wings, or Hirundinidae, are a family of passerine songbirds found around the world on all continents, including occasionally in Antarctica. Highly adapted to aerial feeding, they have a distinctive appearance. The term "swallow" is used colloquially in Europe as a synonym for the barn swallow. Around 90 species of Hirundinidae are known, divided into 19 genera, with the greatest diversity found in Africa, which is also thought to be where they evolved as hole-nesters. They also occur on a number of oceanic islands. A number of European and North American species are long-distance migrants; by contrast, the West and South African swallows are nonmigratory. This family comprises two subfamilies: Pseudochelidoninae (the river martins of the genus Pseudochelidon) and Hirundininae (all other swallows, martins, and saw-wings). In the Old World, the name "martin" tends to be used for the squarer-tailed species, and the name "swallow" for the more fork-tailed species; however, this distinction does not represent a real evolutionary separation. In the New World, "martin" is reserved for members of the genus Progne. (These two systems are responsible for the same species being called sand martin in the Old World and bank swallow in the New World.)

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  1. Swallows

    The family Hirundinidae, comprised of small BIRDS that hunt flying INSECTS while in sustained flight.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SWALLOWS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Swallows is ranked #26086 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Swallows surname appeared 939 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Swallows.

    95.2% or 894 total occurrences were White.
    2.2% or 21 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.2% or 12 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.8% or 8 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of swallows in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of swallows in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of swallows in a Sentence

  1. Bob Bolus:

    I'll give you an analogy of that of a giant boa constrictor, that basically squeezes you, chokes you and it swallows you, and that's what we're going to do the D.C.

  2. Dejan Stojanovic:

    Death swallows death.

  3. Dejan Stojanovic:

    All swallows all. Life must eat life to survive.

  4. William Blake:

    All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

  5. Francis Quarles:

    Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self-made sepulcher of a living man.

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