How to Use subsume in a Sentence

subsume

verb

• Flowering leeks have a tough stalk that subsumes the rest of the plant.
  — Pam Peirce, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2018
• For these reasons, the phrase web3 may yet subsume the word Metaverse.
  — Charlie Fink, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• At times, the taut drama on the court was subsumed by the spectacle off it.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• We’re subsumed, for better and worse, in The Bear’s trauma plot.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 8 July 2024
• How can it not be subsumed into this vast trough of the culture?
  — Ann Friedman, The Cut, 22 June 2017
• Her last outing was subsumed by her and Sanders's spat.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 7 Feb. 2020
• That the things that are hers are getting subsumed into theirs.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 18 Oct. 2018
• The trials of the young prince are just one dimension of the angst that threatens to subsume the White House and the president.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 1 Mar. 2018
• By then, Lemon City had been subsumed by the city and become urbanized.
  — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2024
• Just a word that could be grown over and enveloped, repurposed and subsumed like all the others.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
• The buildup to the summit has been subsumed by anger over Trump's protectionism.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 June 2018
• The billings subsumed all of the woman's settlement, leaving her with no money from the case.
  — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2018
• Sheldon thanks her for explaining her fears to him—and for using the word subsumed—and the credits roll.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 18 Oct. 2018
• The new search will subsume Windows search and show local files among its results.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 24 Sep. 2018
• But those hopes dimmed as the protests fizzled out, subsumed by a wave of arrests and mass repression.
  — Simon Shuster, TIME, 14 May 2024
• All of the shares are worth the same amount as the different financing terms are subsumed into the common stock.
  — Chana R. Schoenberger, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2017
• Rather than respond directly to debates about the duties of the artist, Heaney subsumed them in his art.
  — Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
• Then the climate got colder, and ice subsumed the entire region.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2023
• For some, the pressures of success subsume their talent.
  — Chloé Cooper Jones, GQ, 25 May 2018
• By this time, waters will have already subsumed much of the coastline from Freeport, south of Houston, all the way to New Orleans.
  — Allegra Kirkland, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2019
• We have been taught to subsume anything even resembling anger at all costs.
  — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Oct. 2018
• These mating events subsumed the other species into one large group.
  — Richard Pallardy, Ars Technica, 30 July 2024
• Any trace of the agenda movie is subsumed in pulsing human drama.
  — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2017
• In Charlton’s work, the female form is at once the fount of extravagant nature and subsumed by it.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• Each of those records was subsumed in its respective world, and Lipa slots neatly next to them with a vision of her own.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 3 May 2024
• The whole issue was subsumed by a failure to make distinctions—between a hand on a backside and rape.
  — Elizabeth Drew, New Republic, 8 Feb. 2018
• There was a growing sense that the roiling underground was rising up to subsume the status quo.
  — Adam Sternbergh, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
• Before long, he’s subsumed by a swarm of bucking bodies, and chaos prevails.
  — Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
• Tangerang, Banten’s largest city, sits right on Jakarta’s western edge, almost subsumed by the capital city’s massive sprawl.
  — Keegan Bradford, SPIN, 25 July 2024
• Across the ever shifting sphere: the effects of fog slowly subsuming a hillside, the sun stirring between the sea and sky, and ribbons of light refracting through shallow pools at low tide.
  — Tara Anne Dalbow, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024