How to Use eaten up with/by in a Sentence

eaten up with/by

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• 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
• 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
• And while backyard football is fun, it is eaten up by serious teams in big games.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
• 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
• Otherwise, too much space would have been eaten up by parking.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
• Second, those cost savings now look likely to be eaten up by Samsung Display.
  — Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Steven Cherry So another 10 percent gets eaten up by that electrolysis process.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Those raises have generally been eaten up by inflation.
  — Christopher Rugaber, ajc, 15 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024