swallow up
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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
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
“It will swallow up the majority of our social services payment.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 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
Mama sighs, and I swallow up the words I was about to say—that I’m starving.
From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist
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