swamped

Example Sentences

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After its chaotic first day, Chai Pani was a huge success, surviving the financial collapse, the Covid-19 pandemic and a catastrophic flood that swamped the area after Hurricane Helene.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Can I just emphasise that fans come to watch a football match and see their team's players, not to be swamped by referees or VAR stopping games at every contentious moment.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026

Not far from the camp, in the town of Mograne which was swamped by the neighbouring Sebou River, villagers still waded through deep mud.

From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026

Neither investors nor industry can get enough of the precious metal, while a glut of oil has swamped energy markets and depressed fuel prices.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

The algorithm is a rule that protects the doctors from being swamped with too much information—the same way that the rule of agreement protects improv actors when they get up onstage.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell