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Example sentences for: swallowed

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Police reporters in the United States complain about having to call up families of murder victims, but try interviewing a kid who just saw 44 members of his family swallowed in a mudslide.
And this has particularly sapped the vigor and strength of the black intellectual, his or her incisiveness swallowed in a sea of bathetic race promoting.
The Irish Times went on, "Nationalists have swallowed the bitter truth that there will be no united Ireland in the foreseeable future and if it comes, it will only happen with the consent of a majority in Northern Ireland.
Along with the rest of the audience, I jumped when I was meant to jump, laughed when I was meant to laugh, and swallowed a lump in my throat when I was meant to feel moved.
) Inside are titillating photos--houses bitten in half by tornadoes, cars swallowed in snow banks, etc.--and details to arouse even the most jaded weather fetishist.