swept up

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swept up (in something)

suddenly very involved in something Billings went there for a vacation and got so swept up in the place that he never left.

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The litter was swept up from the carpet, and the cinders and ashes were taken out of the grate, and the whole of it was in the bucket, when her attention was recalled to the children by hearing one of them cry. Law and the Lady by Collins, Wilkie View in context Horse and man swept up to them like a whirlwind; and then, reining up the reeling charger, the general turned on them a face like flame, and called for the colonel like the trumpet that wakes the dead. The Innocence Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context Calling aloud for those around him to come to his support he halted fifty yards from his boat just as Number Thirteen with his fierce, brainless horde swept up from the opposite side of the island in the wake of him who bore Virginia Maxon. The Monster Men by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context			sweep under the carpet sweep under the rug sweep up sweep up after sweet sweet and sour sweet as honey sweet Fanny Adams sweet nothings sweet on sweet-talk sweet-talk into sweeten sweeten the deal sweeten the pot sweeten up sweetheart agreement sweetness swell swell out swell up swell with swelled head swept swept away swept up swerve swerve into swift swift and sure swift as an arrow swill down swim swim against the tide swim around swim before eyes swim for swim for it swim in swim into swim toward swim with swimming swimming in swimming with swindle out of swing swing around swing at swing both ways swing by			SWEPAM SWEPCO SWEPDI SWEPMO SWEPP SWEPS swept swept swept swept swept swept Swept Away swept gain controls Swept Homodyne Interferometry Swept Local Oscillator Receiver swept off their feet swept off their feet swept off their feet swept off their feet swept path Swept Spot Noise Swept Square Wave swept the board swept the board swept the board swept the board Swept Time-Delay Cross-Correlator swept under the carpet swept under the carpet swept up swept valley Swept volume Swept volume Swept Volume Efficiency swept volumes Swept wing Swept wing swept-frequency analyzer swept-frequency reflectometer Swept-Frequency Two-Pulse Phase Modulation Swept-wing sweptback sweptback wing SWEPTS sweptwing SWER SWERA Swerd SWERDA SWERF SWERI Swerin Swerin SWERN SWERPS Swertia Swertia Caroliniensis

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