Sentence examples for were swallowed 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.
Houses and businesses were swallowed up.
We have estimated that more seeds were swallowed than broken, in all colour categories.
When Kispest were swallowed up by Honved, Puskas was commissioned in the army.
According to the Old Testament, Korah and his fellow rebels were swallowed up by the earth.
Teeny, tiny, itty-bitty, the girls were swallowed by the snowsuits.
Everyone scattered, became respectable, and were swallowed up by this age of hype.
The melons tumbled and spun down the belt and were swallowed up by the building.
It was not long before entire families were swallowed by the prisons and the execution grounds.
These jobs were swallowed up by the words that described them.
Many streets, alleys and intersections were swallowed up when tenements were razed.
The years that followed were swallowed up by depression, she says, "really properly not really managing".
