swallow up
Example Sentences
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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
A looming, over-loaded bagel which threatens to swallow up the multiverse is one of many obstacles encountered by characters in the film.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 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
Mama sighs, and I swallow up the words I was about to say—that I’m starving.
From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist
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