Example Sentences

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At that point the snake will have swallowed its tail so far even the most sympathetic reader will find it hard not to gag.

From Newsweek • Dec. 31, 2009

A few short months and the devouring jungle will have swallowed up even the place where it has been.

From Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers by Franck, Harry Alverson