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
Prempeh was the Asante king, or "Asantehene", of the late 19th Century who resisted British demands that his territory be swallowed up into the expanding Gold Coast protectorate.
From BBC • Nov. 26, 2024
“I just didn’t want my life to be swallowed up by my work,” the 46-year-old star of M. Night Shyamalan’s new movie “Trap” said in a Guardian interview published Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 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
