swallow up
Example Sentences
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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
A looming, over-loaded bagel which threatens to swallow up the multiverse is one of many obstacles encountered by characters in the film.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 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
I was standing at the edge of the water, waiting for the waves to come in so the sand could swallow up my feet.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
