Sentence examples for were swallowed in from inspiring English sources

The clever lyrics were swallowed in an echoey room, but Enon's wit was obvious, along with its unpredictability.

Banks are founded all the time: 119 new charters were granted last year, whereas 275 banks were swallowed in mergers.

The companies that were swallowed in the 1980s, he says, had old-school-tie managements ill-equipped to repel MBA-trained corporate raiders schooled in tougher London and American business environments.

Here, too, is a man who goes to bat for evolution; he is pushing for the National Park Service to designate as such a site near Waco where two dozen mammoths were swallowed in a mudslide.

While regional grocery retailers in other states were swallowed in the late 90's by supermarket giants like Kroger, New Jersey's powerhouse grocers -- Kings, A.&P., Pathmark, ShopRite and Foodtown all are headquartered here -- were spared, clearing the way for a statewide, share-hungry battleground among the holdouts in a state that experts say has a particularly tight market.

The highest volumes were swallowed in swimming pools.

A further variation of "body stuffing" is "parachuting" in which the illicit drug (often methamphetamine or cocaine) is swallowed in a plastic baggie that has been punctured multiple times to allow a slow-release of the drug [61].

But then Barnett, an old-line Florida bank, was swallowed in a wave of mergers.

But now, she is being swallowed in the proliferation of mundane objects, paper, plastic and metal.

Wherever you stand, parts of the fugitive image are swallowed in glare.

Two-thirds of this ocean of Coke is swallowed in the United States.