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 surrounding chunks of the fallen cedar beams looked like the maw of the desert, rising to swallow up the dead city—and reminded me of Rasseem’s teeth.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
