Sentence examples for was swallowed up from inspiring English sources
verb
To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
There it was swallowed up by a cavernous house.
We met a couple years ago!" Then he was swallowed up by the crowd.
Then 26% of income was swallowed up by mortgage interest payments.
It was swallowed up by Ryanair: the 21st-century version of a burning at the stake.
Isabel watched as his shadow was swallowed up in the darker shadows of the trees.
The rest of the land was swallowed up by housing developments.
Reeling from the crisis, Hudson was swallowed up by Tyson Foods by the Labor Day weekend.
"One witness described that he was swallowed up by the weight of numbers and forced to the ground".
The remaining £14.5m was swallowed up in costs – including the enormous payment to its best-paid employee.
East Germany was swallowed up by West Germany quickly, said the director, Mr. Becker, a West German.
While that other staple of eco-stores, toothpaste maker Tom's of Maine was swallowed up by Colgate-Palmolive.
