Swamped Sentence Examples

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  • It is hard, very hard at times; but it hasn't swamped me yet.

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  • Weighing in at an hour, TDS was swamped with brutal metal tracks, grimy sleaze-anthems, and even a piano ballad ("Hurt").

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  • Instead of becoming swamped in the details, consider two important items before you start shopping.

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  • The flood of Afghan opium has swamped Pakistani security forces.

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  • The central administration of Burgundy soon disappeared, swamped by the resurgence of ancient local liberties; the army Ruin of fell to pieces; and all hope of joining the two limbs the house of the great eastern duchy was definitely lost.

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  • The storm swamped 23,000 hectares of crops, and uprooted over 28,000 cashew trees.

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  • I am still swamped with work because I still do a lot of it myself, but this is how I hope to keep it, very hands on.

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  • When the news spread that the gloves were sold at J.Crew, the store's website was swamped and the gloves sold out in record time.

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  • Producers are swamped with hopefuls at every casting call, so realistically, expect an uphill battle.

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  • Not so with the national customs. There are features - the wooden house, the oven, the bath - which the Russian never abandons, even when swamped in an alien population.

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  • Such was the activity of these Jewish and Christian missionaries that their imitations have swamped the originals.

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  • An overwhelming naturalism swamped the older reserves of Egyptian art, and the expression of the postures, actions and familiarities of daily life, or the instantaneous attitudes of animals, became the dernier cri of fashion.

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  • Trapped in his Dungeon of Love, prisoners are swamped by sickly sweet caresses.

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  • This indeed proved to be the midpoint highlight of the set with crunching riffs swamped with layers of keyboards.

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  • Pan-fried scallops were overpowered by their bed of broad bean mash, which in turn swamped the accompanying saffron dressing.

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  • I went several boating excursions in the neighborhood, and in one was dismasted and nearly swamped.

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  • Ocean Kayaks are designed with scupper holes in the cockpit which direct water out to keep the kayak from being swamped.

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  • Kilgallen was swamped with requests by press agents to plug the activities of their clients.

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  • Melbourne swamped by flash floods Perched on the roofs of their cars, they look out bewildered on a city inundated with flash floods.

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  • The end of the Beck had been totally prettified and consisted of being swamped with twiddly wharf side looking houses.

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  • To break down this opposition Marlborough was dismissed on the 31st from all his employments, while the House of Lords was "swamped" by Anne's creation of twelve peers,' including Mrs Masham's husband.

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  • They could not keep back the waves of the new civilization, they feared being swamped, and they sought vainly to maintain intact their old organization while reaping the financial benefit resulting from the working of the gold mines.

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  • The government was determined not to use the Crimes Act, and the result was that offenders nearly always went unpunished, benches of magistrates being often swamped by the chairmen of district councils who were ex officio justices under the act of 1898.

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  • France in the 12th century was merely a federation of separate states, jealously independent, which the king had to negotiate with rather than rule; while his own possessions, shorn of the rich heritage of Aquitaine, were, so to speak, swamped by those of the English king.

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  • The one exception was the relatively enormous open diapason which swamped everything in the organ.

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  • The High Streets are swamped with rather predictable and uninspiring designs and there is a distinct lack of models that possess true individuality.

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  • She is unsentimental, unpretentious, never mawkish, never the slightest bit swamped with self-pity, nor ever less than clear.

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  • Four years on and the bamboo which we brought from the last house has completely swamped the wisteria at the back of the pond.

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  • In return for food and " luxuries " the couple must shovel sand all night to stop the village from being swamped in sand.

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  • This Roman civilization was, however, destined to be swamped by the current of Teutonic immigration, which finally broke down the barriers of the Roman empire and overwhelmed the whole of the Rhenish district.

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