How to Use eaten up with/by in a Sentence

eaten up with/by

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• The cinema’s screen, roof and even chairs are eaten up by the intense winds.
  — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 22 July 2024
• Otherwise, too much space would have been eaten up by parking.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
• And while backyard football is fun, it is eaten up by serious teams in big games.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
• Rest assured that your precious time won’t be eaten up by sitting in traffic.
  — Karla Walsh, Travel + Leisure, 18 July 2024
• In practice, however, that has meant propping up the state sector to ensure it didn’t get eaten up by entrepreneurs.
  — Richard McGregor, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2019
• Second, those cost savings now look likely to be eaten up by Samsung Display.
  — Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Where parking lots initially existed near the plant, that's all gone now, eaten up by the massive building expansion.
  — Detroit Free Press, 17 May 2023
• Your mother’s money may have been eaten up by long-term care expenses, which can be breathtakingly expensive.
  — Liz Weston, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2025
• That's increased the pressure on employers to keep raising pay for their own workers, many of whom are seeing their incomes eaten up by inflation.
  — Sanvi Bangalore, CBS News, 8 June 2023
• Some of that would be eaten up by increases in the reimbursement rate for interim housing proposed to go into effect next year.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
• Schmitt wasn’t charged with an error, however, until the next inning, when he was eaten up by a hopper off the bat of Randal Grichuk.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
• In Rome’s historic center, for example, they’ll get eaten up by the sampietrini, or cobblestones.
  — Asia London Palomba, Travel + Leisure, 12 Oct. 2024
• That doesn’t mean it won’t eventually be eaten up by the SEC, that Beamer will be there forever.
  — Seth Emerson, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
• Much of his time, as for other royals of his generation, was eaten up by ribbon-cuttings and other ceremonial duties.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• The share of median household income in the New York area eaten up by the median rent rose from 35% to 37% in that time.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 23 Sep. 2023
• Just make sure your account will be protected by the FDIC, and read the fine print to make sure your earnings won’t be eaten up by monthly charges or sneaky fees.
  — Martha C. White, wsj.com, 2 Oct. 2023
• An Electronic Frontier Foundation report notes that half of every ad dollar gets eaten up by fees, while subscriptions are subject to app store taxes.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 12 Apr. 2024
• Its channels have historically been steeped in industrial pollution thanks to a shoreline that has been, until recently, eaten up by power plants, warehouses, and depots.
  — John Surico, Curbed, 11 Aug. 2024
• While on average productivity per employee increased, more employee time was eaten up with meetings and other communication.
  — Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
• Sequoia partner Bogomil Balkansky said the deal is particularly helpful for pre-seed stage companies that might only have a few million dollars in funding, a huge chunk of which could be eaten up by cloud costs.
  — Ina Fried, Axios, 9 Oct. 2024
• During public comment, Valparaiso resident Dawn Miller pointed out that a 3% raise will be eaten up by county employees’ health insurance being moved to a high deductible plan.
  — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 5 Oct. 2024
• His recent use of ‘perch’ was a not-so-subtle reference to that description of the way United had dethroned Liverpool as England’s most successful club which will have been eaten up by supporters.
  — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• In Washington, nearly the whole summer has been eaten up with negotiations around a bipartisan infrastructure that includes little climate policy.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 11 Aug. 2021
• The strike has exposed fault lines inside a company where senior executives long focused on returns, while Machinists saw their wages eaten up by inflation and their pension plan evaporate under a controversial 2014 contract.
  — Julie Johnsson, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2024
• Worse, most eating disorder specialists are monolingual English speakers, meaning family therapy sessions — the gold standard for anorexia nervosa — are eaten up by an interpreter volleying information back and forth to her parents in Spanish.
  — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023