Sentence examples for swamp up from inspiring English sources
When you've driven the car into the swamp — up to our eyeballs in debt, fighting two wars on behalf of shaky regimes, trying to keep a lid on Iran, Congress in a frozen stupor — and then you throw mudballs at the tow-truck driver, you are betting on the electorate having the memory of a guppy.
He defined his occupation in clear terms, "I like to think of myself as an artist as being in a nondescript swamp, up to my knees in mire, painting the vital beauty I see there, in my own way, not caring a damn about tradition, or anyone's opinion".
That's the kind of person we need in D.C. Clean the swamp up.
You might say you're slammed, swamped, up to my eyes or — if you're Australian — flat out like a lizard drinking.
They were filling the swamps up and building the Meadowlands at that time.
There are six and a half million outdoor signs advertising Coca-Cola in the world today, give or take a few thousand that regularly get blown down, swamped, burned up, or otherwise maltreated.
In the bear pit of the House of Commons last week, Pendle's Labour MP, Gordon Prentice, who fears his seat is being swamped by up to £250,000 in support from Lord Ashcroft (only £82,000 of it officially registered), warned the Prime Minister that "the next election in my constituency is being bought by a tax exile".
Another reason Pakistan has given for keeping the borders closed has been that it fears being swamped by up to a million Afghans who are believed by the United Nations to be heading for Pakistan, on top of the two million who already live in refugee camps in Pakistan.
If you do not want to buy actual stencils, you can create your own by holding actual cattails or swamp grasses up to your boat as you paint it.
The biologist fell head first into the swamp, sending up a gout of mud and gnawed sticks.
As soon as we landed, we took off through the boot-sucking muck and mire of the swamp, climbing up and over fallen trees and through branches, with camcorder in hand and running.
