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Swallowed in sentence

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Well, basically the East was swallowed by the West.
The flavors of the food a pregnant woman eats find their way into the amniotic fluid, which is continuously swallowed by the fetus.
"Big sister Wong, can I sing you a song that my mom sang for me before she was swallowed in the earthquake?"
Or maybe I've already made your stomach turn, as you think of all of the seawater we've each accidentally swallowed over the years.
I swallowed my pride, and I learned calculus.
Unlike a normal frog, which lays its eggs in the water and goes away and wishes its froglets well, this frog swallowed its fertilized eggs, swallowed them into the stomach, where it should be having food, didn't digest the eggs, and turned its stomach into a uterus.
I didn't think I'd be swallowed by the volcano, and I am here.
It was like a hole in reality had opened up and swallowed him.
But I was scared, and the idea of taking the existential elevator to see my granddad sounded a lot better than being swallowed by the void while I slept.
So it was natural for me as a child to fear being swallowed by the void, but it wasn't rational, because being swallowed by the void is not something that any of us will ever live to experience.
This is a sea dragon, and the one on the bottom, the blue one, is a juvenile that has not yet swallowed the acid, has not yet taken in the brown-green algae pond scum into its body to give it energy.
It is rather what is swallowed up and sacrificed in the name of the god of love, or rather in the name of seduction capital.
Adam Smith: Let us suppose that the great empire of China was suddenly swallowed up by an earthquake, and let us consider how a man of humanity in Europe would react on receiving intelligence of this dreadful calamity.
This cricket swallowed the larvae of a Gordian worm, or horsehair worm.
One was that Cookie Monster smoked a pipe in one skit and then swallowed it.
As I witnessed my father's body being swallowed by fire, I sat by his funeral pyre and wrote.
And I swallowed their insults along with their slurs.
Now, all this is a big problem in treating HIV with the current drug treatment, which is a life-long treatment that must be swallowed by patients.
You've swallowed hard the contents of the "Drink Me" bottle, and felt yourself shrink.
Could the Earth be swallowed by a black hole?
If our galaxy collides with another, the Earth could be thrown towards the galactic center, close enough to the supermassive black hole to be eventually swallowed up.
The Spanish set off into the jungle, but the few that return come back with stories, stories of powerful shamans, of warriors with poisoned arrows, of trees so tall they blotted out the sun, spiders that ate birds, snakes that swallowed men whole and a river that boiled.
Naela Ayesh, who strived to build a self-sufficient Palestinian economy by encouraging women in Gaza to grow vegetables in their backyards, an activity deemed illegal by the Israeli authorities at that time; Rabeha Diab, who took over decision-making authority for the entire uprising when the men who had been running it were deported; Fatima Al Jaafari, who swallowed leaflets containing the uprising's directives in order to spread them across the territories without getting caught; and Zahira Kamal, who ensured the longevity of the uprising by leading an organization that went from 25 women to 3,000 in a single year.
And of course, there were tarantulas, scorpions, anacondas ... I once came face to face with a 24-foot long anaconda that could have swallowed me in one bite.
Our farms drain the equivalent of 3.3 billion Olympic-sized swimming pools every year, all of it swallowed up by crops and livestock to feed Earth’s growing population.
I swallowed every sharp word in my throat, clenched my jaw, and instead answered each one of their condescending questions and statements.
The reason we don't see light from there, is that the light that would come to us from that place was swallowed by the event horizon.
But when the alarm went off they panicked, and each of them swallowed the crystal they held right before they were caught.
And I thought, well maybe there is Lithium-6 in this star, which is an indication that this star has swallowed a planet.
CA: And we have had a speaker who said that very thing, and swallowed a sword right after that, which was quite dramatic.
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