Sentence examples for are swallowed from inspiring English sources

The phrase "are swallowed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are describing something being consumed or taken in, often metaphorically or literally.
Example: "The words of the speaker were so powerful that they seemed to be swallowed by the audience in silence."
Alternatives: "are consumed" or "are ingested".

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are swallowed

verb

To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.

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They are swallowed.

The New Yorker

The fruits are swallowed whole and the seeds later regurgitated.

Encyclopedia Britannica

They innocently alight on the whiskers and are swallowed.

The New Yorker

The crustaceans in turn are swallowed by fish.

The New York Times - Health

Bugs alighting on the water's surface are swallowed by fish lurking beneath — antique fly zappers.

The New York Times - Travel

The tinier the pieces, the more easily they are swallowed by marine life.

The New York Times

When this is filled, the tube and its contents are swallowed.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Guinea worm wreaks its havoc after larvae are swallowed in water.

The Economist

And as soon as these weapons reach Lebanon, they are swallowed up in secret underground stockpiles.

The Guardian

However, liquids have no such preswallow transport stage and are swallowed as a whole.

Nature

Things have meaning but are swallowed up online, and not only in China.

The New Yorker

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