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How to use the word swallows in a Sentence?

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But look at how soon we’re all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of all those applauding hands. The people who praise us - how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region in which it all takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited.

– Marcus Aurelius

added by Normando
1 year ago

I'll give you an analogy of that of a giant boa constrictor, that basically squeezes you, chokes you and it swallows you, and that's what we're going to do the D.C.

– Bob Bolus

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In the absence of a debate, Trump's lead widens because he swallows up the political oxygen, but when that oxygen is spread out more evenly in a debate, it breathes life into the other candidates, and the race gets closer.

– David Paleologos

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Daesh's characteristic is that it is man-eating. It swallows its competitors, here, it is not physical presence of people from Syria or Iraq. It is the network effect.

– President Ashraf Ghani

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

– William Blake

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Death swallows death.

– Dejan Stojanovic

added by anonymous
11 years ago

All swallows all. Life must eat life to survive.

– Dejan Stojanovic

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self-made sepulcher of a living man.

– Francis Quarles

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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