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 More results

References in classic literature

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

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