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Free sign upThe phrase "he was swallowed up" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone being completely consumed or overwhelmed by a situation or feeling.
Example: "In the chaos of the crowd, he was swallowed up and lost sight of his friends."
Alternatives: "he was engulfed" or "he was consumed."
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We met a couple years ago!" Then he was swallowed up by the crowd.
"One witness described that he was swallowed up by the weight of numbers and forced to the ground".
Quickly, he was swallowed up by the constellation of procedures necessary to assess his condition -- needles in his veins, an EKG, a CAT scan, anti-seizure medication.
Kevin Costner, before he was swallowed up by his own self-righteousness, perfected this type in "Bull Durham" and revisited it in "Tin Cup".
That left Voeckler to push it alone but when he was swallowed up with 20km remaining the bunch sprint was always going to favour Marcel Kittel, who beat the Norwegian Alexander Kristoff on the line.
He was swallowed up in the government's new maximum security system of secret detention and secret hearings, and his only friend was the same F.B.I. agent who had helped decide to put him there.
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He's finally free to get on with his life; at the moment that he regains his future, he's swallowed up in his past.
He removed his jersey like a soccer player after a goal before he crossed the plate and was swallowed up by his teammates.
There it was swallowed up by a cavernous house.
East Germany was swallowed up by West Germany quickly, said the director, Mr. Becker, a West German.
Then 26% of income was swallowed up by mortgage interest payments.
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