Sentence examples for was being swallowed from inspiring English sources

Rather, it was being swallowed by search engines.

Up on the screen above the Glasslands Gallery stage on Tuesday night, a car was being swallowed whole by flames.

Ever since 9/11, when Republican elders worried that the president was being swallowed up by his chair, Mr. Bush has strained to imitate the two-fisted, broad-shouldered style of Ronald Reagan.

The Austrian émigré writer Stefan Zweig composed the first draft of his memoir, "The World of Yesterday," in a feverish rapture during the summer of 1941, as headlines gave every indication that civilization was being swallowed in darkness.

I felt as if I was being swallowed up by the sky.

When I was four years old I had a series of recurring, hazy dreams, after which I would wake up in a panic -- heart pounding, palms sweaty, eyes wide open, feeling as though the entire world had slowed down and I was being swallowed up by it.

It's being swallowed by the cellphone.

Anything bigger, and I feel like I'm being swallowed".

And their identity is being swallowed up, too.

The Maldive Islands are being swallowed by the Indian Ocean.

All around us, it appears, things have been — or are being — swallowed up by chaos.