be swallowed up
Example Sentences
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“I just think they need to be more effective at explaining the science in a way that can be swallowed up by the masses.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
Sometimes it feels as though, if we take one wrong step, we’ll be swallowed up by one of them.
From Salon • Oct. 9, 2025
Still, “Los Angeles Plays Itself” narrator Encke King says that “the entire world seems to be rooting for Los Angeles to slide into the Pacific or to be swallowed up by the San Andreas fault.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025
But that distrust could make it easier for the island to be swallowed up.
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2024
She wanted to be swallowed up by the house where she and Warren had grown up and played and argued and planned, where he no longer waited for her, which he would never enter again.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
