gulped

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Above the buildings, the tall darkness gulfed like a well.

From Slate • Sep. 24, 2022

A yawning valley, gulfed in blackness, lay like a hole in created nature at my feet; but the outline of the hills was sharp against the sky. 

From Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Stevenson, Robert Louis

She was gulfed in a deep wave of half-repentant feeling, remembering all his generosity, his forbearance, his devotion.

From Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Or in the sunken boat, gulfed at his work, I see his blackened corse, even in death Faithful to duty.

From Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. by Curzon, Sarah Anne

He got a "Third" in Classical "Mods," and was "gulfed" in "Greats."

From What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Holmes, Edmond