"suddenly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The market was suddenly swamped by customers wishing to sell, and except for a few firms, like Goldman, Sachs & Company, that stepped in yesterday to try to calm the waters, there were very few buyers to be found.
- Their movie theaters, hotels, restaurants, dance halls and favorite pubs were suddenly swamped by a flood of troops from every state in the Union.
- As she grasped it, she was suddenly swamped with a strange feeling.
- But even before such statistics were tallied, unmistakable signs of the effects of crack on women and children were appearing all across the city: * Hospital pediatric wards were suddenly swamped last year with crack addicts' newborn babies, with many of them born underweight with cocaine in their blood.
- Suddenly swamped by scores of frantic lobbying colleagues who thought she might have real information from the committee, she fought to make herself heard above the commotion.
- And in her mind saw again the line of desert hills beyond the stone balustrade of the hotel room balcony, and the faint crease of dawnlight above, suddenly swamped by the stuttering pulses of silent fire from beyond the horizon.
- He forgot everything; Sharpe, Harper, his plans, everything, for he was suddenly swamped with lust for this girl and he began to edge the bayonet from its scabbard.
- The noise of its motor was suddenly swamped by a far louder, heavier roar that burst out all around and over them.
- Suddenly swamped by exhaustion, she slumped back against the cushions and closed her eyes, reliving the awful moment when the car had slid into the snowdrift.
- She watched the faint crease of dawn-light above as it was suddenly swamped by the stuttering pulses of silent fire from beyond the horizon.
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