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
  • 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
  • The trick, though, is that the sport has managed to subsume all of that — all of these things that happen to it, these currents beyond its control — into part of the story.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 July 2023
  • Massasoit didn't want his people subsumed and thought the English might be a strong ally.
    Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Decked out in white suits, Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay were often subsumed by rays of light from all angles and the flashing colors of the screens behind them.
    Spin Staff, SPIN, 26 July 2024

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