Sentence examples for swarmed upon from inspiring English sources

The military have swarmed upon the town, placing it under lockdown.

To the role of Selina Meyer she brings the full battery of her art: she throws fits, she gets distracted, she is swarmed upon by multiplying humiliations.

I rang the doorbell before noon and was swarmed upon by a phalanx of attractive saleswomen in cocktail dresses who seemed uneasy when taking in my shredded jeans and Converse low-tops.

Every minor conversation, including a couple of my own, are swarmed upon by onlookers hungry for a fight.

In a few days, reporters, photographers and TV camera crews would swarm upon sleepy Newfoundland for the wedding-blessing ceremony — professional gawkers lured by the incongruous coupling of semiautomatic rifles and a house of worship.

Mr. bin Laden's goal in striking the American embassies and bombing the American destroyer Cole in 2000, says Mr. Wright, was to "lure America into the same trap the Soviets had fallen into: Afghanistan": "His strategy was to continually attack until the U.S. forces invaded; then the mujahideen would swarm upon them and bleed them until the entire American empire fell from its wounds.

As Lawrence Wright says in his new book, "The Looming Tower," the master of this approach is Osama bin Laden: "His strategy was to continually attack until the U.S. forces invaded; then the mujahadeen would swarm upon them and bleed them until the entire American empire fell from its wounds". The Israeli and American resolve in this grim summer of war should be: No more falling into traps.

Although vertebrate life exists on land, the reptile-like tetrapods of this period predate any mammal or bird and would certainly "swarm" upon the land.

The division of animals into groups relies more heavily on life mode than on current recognized relationships; for example, animals are "in the waters" or "swarm upon the earth".

There is no compelling reason to believe that swarming depends upon the participation of "intelligence" or "consciousness" (see "Introduction"), in the generally accepted senses of these words.

It is a town as García Márquez might have imagined it were he to visit coups and counter-­coups instead of endless rains and butterfly swarms upon its citizens.