Example Sentences

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Neither investors nor industry can get enough of the precious metal, while a glut of oil has swamped energy markets and depressed fuel prices.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

As in many places around the world, supply chains in Australia have been snarled as the Omicron variant has swamped a country that had largely contained the coronavirus for almost two years.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2022

Fueled by the more contagious delta variant, the COVID-19 wave since July 1 has swamped rural hospitals and required hundreds of emergency transfers of patients to larger counties, like King, Pierce and Spokane.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2021

No doubt, especially when, as we all know, the growing homeless population has swamped the number of new beds available to them.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2021

The new arrangement has swamped us with work.

From The Ne'er-Do-Well by Beach, Rex Ellingwood