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
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
The last section of the novel is taken up with Ottilie’s journey from Santa Barbara, where wildfires swallow up entire neighborhoods, to reach her pregnant daughter before rising storm waters block her path.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2023
A tsunami could swallow up everything—and everyone—that was left in Valdez.
From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis
