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Sentence Examples I bet there aren't many children who eat fish that isn't wrapped in batter and swamped in ketchup to disguise the fishy taste. Although swamped, the visitors had the satisfaction of Gareth Marks scoring three touchdowns, while Adrian Owen also caught the eye. He was swamped in it, slowly sinking in to the mire of documents and decisions he could no longer even think of how to make. Any good quality triage is swamped by the flood of poor decisions and technical foul-ups. But this material is so swamped in trickery and knavery that its inclusion becomes worthless. Health shops are swamped with immune-boosters, but the remedy I want to recommend is a modulator. Dancing Mystery ran a blinder in last year's race, being in front inside the final furlong, only to be swamped near the finish. Romeo and his mother stepped inside, and the mouth-watering smell of tender beef swamped Romeo. She was dressed in her uniform, a thin green polo shirt that swamped her skeletal frame and a pair of baggy black trousers. The industry is still swamped with capacity, and the slack economy has slowed demand. Various agencies serving veterans say they are swamped with phone calls asking for help. But last night the area was swamped with youth workers, while Humberside Police maintained high visibility patrols. A couple of campers had left their tents for the night to go walking and they must have been swamped. There has been so much building here, we have been swamped by houses and one thing and another. The hysteria around the idea that we are swamped with illegal refugees cashing in on our natural benevolence is mounting daily. Global moderation was my first stopgap, because the comments were being swamped with adverts. I had expected just the tiniest sprinkling, but so much strong cheese swamped all the other flavours. There were so many other film and cartoon subcultures during my primary school days that I suppose I got swamped. This is the last view myriad insects have in life before being swamped by a long, sticky tongue and sucked back into the chameleon's mouth. Six-foot waves crash over the sides of the landing craft and several are swamped. Show More Sentences Our already overcrowded court rooms could be swamped with such otherwise upright and law abiding citizens. As the region was swamped by the new lake and hilltops turned into small islands, top predators like jaguars and harpy eagles fled the area. So it was a sweet revenge for the Portlaoise lads who swamped Ballinakill Gaels in an equally disappointing meeting. More than 131 villages have been swamped by the flood and over thousands of people have been rendered homeless in the district. The warning came just nine months after Swindon was swamped by floods and could mean the town's first hosepipe ban for 15 years. It would be hard to miss the international media coverage of the devastating floods that swamped Prague, where the national team were based. Police say it is a miracle no one was killed when a flash flood swamped an English village. Traveller's World says it is attempting to contact a family which was on holiday in the Maldives when the islands were swamped by the waves. Towns in Indonesia's Aceh province, the closest region to the earthquake's epicentre, were swamped by the waves. One injured man surnamed Guo lost his newly acquired shoes after he was swamped by two waves of water over 10 metres high. When the flood swamped the classroom, she was struggling in the water along with her classmates. They are all orphans who lost their families when huge waves swamped their coastal villages during the Boxing Day tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Early last year, massive floods swamped vast areas of the capital and directly affected more than 110,000 families in 138 subdistricts. When the island of Phuket was swamped by giant waves on Boxing Day, his sons Michael 24, and Matthew, 19, from Salford, feared he was dead. He said there was a fair amount of water in the river in those days, and rain, and the canoe was swamped as they navigated the rapids. More than a few, however, baled their boat out of one wave only to be swamped by another. Forty rowers had to be rescued from the Thames after high winds caused their boats to become swamped during a race from Putney, west London. A brave dad died trying to save his two young sons after a freak gust of wind swamped their boat with water. The men had been in a 23 foot powered canoe with four others transiting from Lale to Ghizo when their vessel was swamped, capsized and sunk. The sun is out, it's a glorious day, there's a cool breeze from time to time, the birds are singing and the place is swamped with tourists. Show More Sentences While the Courts are swamped with thousands of Bill of Rights cases, where will the ordinary person go for justice? Earlier, Health Minister Omeed Medhat Mubarak said hospitals in the capital were swamped with wounded. More schools are needed to prevent classrooms being swamped by the flood of families moving to Colchester. When we announced our second annual Proud Community Awards a few months ago, we were swamped with nominations. Many feared that they were being swamped by huge waves of new immigrants and the large families the new arrivals typically had. But he said it happened because the business took off and he was swamped with work and things became chaotic. The heat wave that swamped Europe in 2003, for example, is now estimated to have taken 45,000 lives. But Iran and Venezuela urging restraint, fearing oil prices could collapse if the market gets swamped. The storm also caused heavy rains that swamped parts of the Philippine capital, Manila. Already the lowland coconut plantation farmlands of Tuvalu are being swamped by the rising sea. Satisfying his inbuilt drive to explore and understand, Peter had experienced real science, science not swamped by a torrent of words. Police commanders concluded that it must have been swamped by waves and refused to conduct a search further east for signs of the life raft. In some cases indigenous languages can be swamped by intrusive ones over a relatively short period of time. The interpolation adds nothing to the dramatic situation, which has been swamped by then anyway. Manufacturing a swamped barrel involves tapering it inward towards the center point and flaring the muzzle and breech ends outward for balance. Before she left for home again, she was also swamped with freebies and hampers, with her brother Kelvin also leaving with his hands full! In addition, the ironclad had little freeboard, so it was susceptible to being swamped. Mayo have plenty of talent, and they prepared as best they could, but were swamped early on. She watches her father's departure by ship from a rowboat that is nearly swamped in the ship's wake. But the report dismisses claims that Leeds is swamped by asylum seekers who have access to a wide range of benefits. Show More Sentences We passed over a number of waves created by their wash and then the last one swamped us. At NorthMart's office, Frank Alainga was swamped by stacks of cargo waybills that he was putting in order. Over the past year our virtual mailboxes have been swamped by spam, worms, and malignant viruses. What actually transpired was that an influx of political adventurers swamped the party, particularly at the regional and riding level. Rather than desperately beating the bushes for MBAs, by the 1990s, US firms were swamped with them. He's slumped on the sofa, the lithe body swamped by a shapeless and shabby burgundy cardigan held together with a giant safety pin. Corporate lobbyists have swamped Capitol Hill in an attempt to win over members of Congress to their respective explanations. On the River Thames near London, 11 rowers had to be rescued after their rowing boats were swamped by huge waves and nearly sank. The tsunami swamped up to 40 percent of the Maldives, an Indian Ocean string of 1,192 coral atolls 480 km southwest of the southern tip of India. This is the backwash from the crisis that began in Asia in 1998, has swamped Argentina and is now spreading right across South America. Meanwhile Blackburn, frantically seeking to empty the boat after a wave had swamped it, accidentally bailed his own mittens over the side. The first time, the boat swamped with water and they had to race back to dry land along Lincoln Avenue to bail the water. The point is that they are few and far between, and effectively swamped by the vast mass of deceptive material. A well used before the tsunami is still in use though it too was swamped by the waves. To rise above the din in a society swamped with information, there is no alternative but to be sensational and dramatic. A misguided foray into middle-eastern politics, it may well be their lyrical nadir, their trademark synth-pop swamped in a hideous 80s production. The couple were swamped with phone-waving well-wishers and extra police had to be called in at one stage as numbers swelled. But in the past decade the city of less than 60,000 inhabitants has been swamped with over 20 million visitors each year. Howard Kurtz talks to Michael Steele about the decision that swamped the convention. Electricity showrooms in the borough were swamped with calls about the scheduled power cuts and at the same time coped with a booming demand for torches, lamps and batteries. Show More Sentences A major altercation was narrowly avoided as 250 thirsty guests swamped the overpriced bar, demanding a drink from one of two hopelessly overworked bar staff. During the hurricane, the one-story bar was swamped by the tidal surge. The first-course platter of big, peppered tails-on shrimp and seared scallops, all swamped in a delirious garlic-butter sauce, is outrageously good. In an age governed by regulation and timidity, where originality is all too often swamped by political correctness, this building will stand as a triumph of individuality. The academy has opened its doors to the Trojan Horse and has found itself swamped with a discipline which does not pay homage to the traditional gods of Logos and Logic. Over the past few days, since I went public with my complaints concerning the casino, I have been swamped with phone calls regarding the actions I took. Their excited gabble came so fast I was swamped, unable to follow them. However, the reports of both bodies were swamped by partisan polemics in the ongoing battle between federal Labor Governments and their political opponents. Baby Sasha brought smiles to the family again when she was born in November and the family was swamped with good wishes from Bradford fundraisers. Water from the swollen river swamped the undercroft, containing the historic building's electricity and central heating systems, and also files and furnishings. He said it was now 50 years since Britain was swamped by terrible floods that resulted in the loss of 300 lives and the flooding of 25,000 properties. Now hopelessly swamped in scandal and corruption, high taxes, firearms boondoggle, sponsorship scandal, etc, they are again using bribery as their last resort. As the tide flooded the surrounding area, the water swamped his boat. Like hospitals, many of the province's mental health facilities are swamped with requests for help, and the people who need their services can't wait. A wave of dizziness swamped her as she stared down on craggy cliffs. As aid starts to get through to the areas most affected, the Sri Lankan government is beginning to look at rebuilding homes and businesses swamped by the killer waves. Members of Friends of the Earth in York say the city's best nature sites have been swamped by rampant foreign weeds, which pose a serious threat to native animals and flora. Easingwold Secondary School remained closed today after flash floods swamped classrooms, causing thousands of pounds-worth of damage to computer equipment. We saw all the early inchoate gestures of the alternative comedy movement when it was still alternative, and before it had swamped the festival with its commercial machine. Landowners along the Colorado River, he said, complained that, when the river flooded, people would use airboats to travel and sometimes hunt over their swamped property. Show More Sentences Harsh floods also swamped southwestern Bangladesh this year. Wealthy middle-aged American women, with bright red lipstick, black Cleopatra hairstyles and accents similar to Sandton kugels swamped the gardens, clicking digital cameras. However, some will need continued encouragement and positive reinforcement from parents and teachers for this good start not to become swamped by schoolyard attitudes. Following the weekend cold snap, local heating and plumbing companies reported being swamped with calls about broken furnaces and frozen water pipes. In fact the opening title track is a bit orchestral, though swamped with shortwave radio static and increasingly fractured, distorted bursts of strings, organ and guitar. At least five homes in Moresby Close, Westlea, were swamped by up to six inches of foul water when a brook flooded and sewers burst during a recent downpour. Recorded on a home tape deck, the sound is definitely lo-fi, and Reed's vocals at times are almost swamped beneath his and Sterling Morrison's blazing guitars. The disabled yacht, swamped and on her side, was drifting nearby. I'm a Piscean, who admits to being a complete social chameleon, and I would be completely over-whelmed and swamped by the personalities of others. The storm increases, making it impossible to bail out the swamped boat. As a senior administrator, Pat was swamped with preparations. A North East of Scotland skipper claimed that tough new European regulations put his crew in danger after his vessel was swamped by a massive wave. Congress has not found a way to handle this new means of communication, which swamped congresspersons with 80,000,000 e-mail messages during the past year. This burst of African political pop is included on their debut album, along with a mixed batch of songs in which their gutsy vocals are sometimes swamped by over-production. The Hudson River swamped westside parkways, where motorists whose cars were bobbing in the floodwaters had to be rescued by police officers on rafts. Some tanks, disabled on the beach, continued to provide covering fire until their ammunition ran out or they were swamped by the rising tide. It is swamped by a mountain of shoes, boots, ballet slippers, football studs and heelies. Unfortunately, as soon as we found ourselves ensconced in the VVVIP area, things turned chillier as she was swamped with glad-handers. So many obliviously swamped with the same arrogance believing the world thinks just like you. I was just starting emerge from lurkership into this discussion group when it has lately become swamped by this non-controversy. Show More Sentences A rare alignment on the local lunar calendar led to Taizhou city centre being swamped in flower-covered cars bearing brides, grooms and families. Nothing, but nothing, was ever more permissive than the permissiveness which has swamped the Church of England. As sea levels rose, the Solent eventually flooded and the settlement area was swamped. I'm 40, but now that I'm back going for my degree I'm swamped with schoolwork. I have been swamped with paperwork ever since they started using the new system. The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped by the creation of twelve Tory peers. The settlers' mudhouses were swamped and they could not get out. The purpose of the campaign was to move the Great Temple of Abu Simbel to keep it from being swamped by the Nile after construction of the Aswan Dam. As the crew arrived at the lifeboat station, one of them saw a speed boat swamped by a wave near the groynes, close to the Granville Terrace slipway. Before the unseasonal cold snap, Birmingham is likely to be swamped by heavy rain spreading north from France, with thundery showers predicted on Friday. Particularly in the tragedies, with their lengthy speeches abstracted from Sallust and Cicero, Augustan critics saw a writer whose learning had swamped his aesthetic judgment. Our report revealed licensing officials had been swamped with complaints about cabbies who cherry-picked fairs or overcharged vulnerable customers. Examples from Classical Literature It wasn't exactly an A-bomb, but the spray hit us a half mile away, and the surface wave swamped us. They tried to elucidate it by means of the atomic theory, which fairly swamped them. At one moment you might have thought it swamped, for no sign of it could be detected. It was one of those moments when a man's hope is swamped in present difficulties. I 'm just as hurried as that boy of yours was when he swamped the powder-magazine. The canvas is rather a logy, limp sort of craft, to my thinking, and liable to drown her crew if swamped. I hooked one once at the mouth of the panuco River in Mexico and it nearly swamped the boat. Fact is, gallant little Wales was swamped by irruptive Ireland. I told him the dingey was nearly swamped, and he reached me a piggin. The tidal river was out of its banks, and its flood had rushed through the blind's side door and swamped the interior. Assaidi celebrated his first Premier League goal exuberantly, removing his shirt and sprinting to the dugout where he was swamped by team-mates. As the boat so favoured is usually in a rough plight, and mostly under water, so, Sydney had a swamped life of it. Her pupils had dilated until the irises were swamped in black. If, this went on, the whole house on the lake would be swamped. Find more words! 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