Example Sentences

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Perhaps that’s why Dr Angry had been so upset: I was swamping the empty hospital.

From The Guardian • Jun. 6, 2020

As workers struggled to restart the pumps, the plant was swamping.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2017

By last week the flood of camp-meetin' melody, which had been rising steadily in juke joints and on radio programs for over a year, was swamping Tin Pan Alley.

From Time Magazine Archive

Twice the cry was heard from those on the chains that the boat was swamping.

From The Loss of the Kent, East Indiaman, in the Bay of Biscay Narrated in a Letter to a Friend by McGregor, Duncan

He gave as an excuse the rush of business that was swamping him.

From The Vision Splendid by Raine, William MacLeod