swamped
Example Sentences
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But floods have now swamped more than 100,000 hectares of land, wiping out key crops and forcing farmers in the country's northwest to flee with their livestock.
From Barron's
A more modern Mongolian issue: When the collection went online last month, the company was swamped with orders and struggled to meet demand.
The dinghy they were travelling on became swamped and capsized in the early hours of 24 November 2021, in what became the deadliest Channel small boat incident on record.
From BBC
The nearest neighbors had laughed at her, a small girl swamped in a coat running into the wind; so she’d flushed, and woken earlier the next day so nobody would see her.
From Literature
"It was so hard, we were in so much trouble at the back, we got swamped, and on that last climb I was on my absolute limit," Welsford said.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
