swallow up
Example Sentences
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A huge sinkhole in a street is Surrey is continuing to grow and swallow up more road, with the county council declaring a major incident.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2025
Another shaped a tsunami out of clay, poised to swallow up one of the red wildflowers that are symbols of the border kibbutzim.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 26, 2024
In the spleen, most of the infected cells detected were frontline immune cells -- macrophages and monocytes -- known as phagocytes whose job is to swallow up invading organisms.
From Science Daily • Sep. 29, 2023
But his futile effort reminds me of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s warning that “politics must not swallow up all of a people’s spiritual and creative energies.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2022
The vicarage took ages to swallow up the chime.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
