How To Use Sweep In A Sentence

It is a big sweep of soft, pale coral sand shelving gently into the Ionian sea. The Sun
People like Momtaz Begum simply sweep up their waste and dump it into the barrel.
In turn, the gallery's window is fitted with giant windscreen wipers to sweep away a continuous downpour of "rain" inverted commas seem necessary to any description of Weber's wonderfully artificial sculptural conceits. This week's new exhibitions
As if space has weather, and currents of permittivity sweep past. DEAD LINES
As the phalanx of furious, excited inmates came sweeping into the servery, Jerrold recognised his danger. THE SCAR

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All the polls had pointed to a clean sweep for the Democrats.
By turning your head, you seemed to take in the whole sweep of Irish history, from the Vikings to the plantation.
Let's pile up the fallen leaves in the corner and sweep up the floor.
“Hi,” she called cheerily and grabbed the broom and began to sweep. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Mom
Sparing us all the obligatory arguments about Ford “defining the American West” with his sweeping, desolate camera shots and Wayne’s anabashedly American Americanness, there’s just no denying that Ford and Wayne — tag team partners on more than 20 films — are simply one of the most prolific duos in celluloid history. Top 10 Actor / Director Tandems In Movie History | Best Week Ever
Played in horrible conditions with gusting gales and sweeping rain this was never going to be a pretty affair.
Their first meeting around Johnson's dinner table ended in a quarrel since Wollstonecraft disagreed with Godwin's sweeping atheism.
Rain was sweeping in on the stage, and he got soaked, but he just towelled himself down.
In a sweeping half-moon behind me, the rugged, unspoiled Inishowen Peninsula rolls out across this little known spear of North West Ireland.
This is a particularly sweeping comment in the scenester world, where trends live fast and die young. Globe and Mail
In southern France, police arrested 12 suspects in sweeps against suspected Islamic militant networks, including three men linked to a network recruiting fighters for Afghanistan, officials said. World Watch
She must avert her gaze from him for a moment or the tides that he was lashing about her would lift and carry her on their outsweep. A Pagan of the Hills
The sweeping tall palm trees fringing the edge of the beach, seemingly bowed toward the sea, as if trying to dip their frowns over the white sands to reach the ocean for a refreshing drink of its cool water. "Best" Beach
As the water rose it eddied into whirlpools that threatened to sweep her away.
History, geography and modern languages are set to become compulsory in school until pupils reach 16 in sweeping changes to the national curriculum. Times, Sunday Times
Jen said, sweeping aside the shower curtain and sitting down on the edge of the tub.
In the beginning, I had visions of a fabulous, sweeping, Perspex spiral staircase, ignorant of the fact that this would cost about £35,000.
Victorian values might include slavery, children down the mines and chimney sweeps up the stack, as well as gin parlours and asylums.
The ejecta are still moving rapidly, however, and quickly sweep up surrounding matter to form a shell that slows down as mass gets accumulated, an action similar to that of a snowplow.
(Soundbite of kalimba) Mr. BERGMAN: And then there's another one, this is the - the one that I was just telling you about, the street sweeper tines from the Eastern Market, and this one is very sort of strange instrument, but it's not one that we use on too many songs. NOMO: The Sonic Maelstrom Of 'Ghost Rock'
Establishment politicians don't quite seem to grasp the changes that are sweeping through the country.
Save Our Secret Ballot amendments prevent adoption of card-check laws by other states—but the NLRB's lawsuits could sweep those protections aside as well.
Then it began to sweep slowly over her in the deprecating manner that Jessamy remembered so clearly from four years ago.
Within 10 minutes we were idling towards a pod of six whales making their sedate way through the wide sweep of the sound opposite the lodge.
The girls 'father, Giuseppe De Vito, disappeared in 2006 after the RCMP issued a warrant for his arrest on drug charges as part of what they called a sweeping crackdown on organized crime. Ottawa Sun
What they are probably thinking is that the imaginary line mentioned above from the earth to the sun sweeps out a full circle in one year; this is called a sidereal year: the time it takes for the sun to appear in the same place against the backdrop of the fixed stars. A Great Leap…Forward?
She might even ring the chimney sweep.
The body was low-slung, sweeping up to a neat fastback, the windows tinted dark.
Marse David had de grown mens go sweep up de cottonseed in de ginhouse on Sunday mornin ', and for three Sundays us went to school. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2
But these days many do not hesitate to chop down even the full-grown trees in their compound because none can spare the time to sweep and clear the yard everyday!
The particular hill on which they were, out-jutted from the regular line of the range, so that the sweep of their vision extended over three-quarters of the circle. Chapter XVI
With modest knowledge of football form, his computer model was originally built to help him win an office sweepstake.
It comes in a wand like a mascara brush, which you sweep over your brows to give colour to the hairs rather than the skin.
A clean sweep, that was what was needed.
We had no TV, so we had no idea what a Sobers sweep or a Hall bouncer actually looked like; we were left to interpolate between newspaper stills and glossies from cricket books.
Transnational links were shattered by closing frontiers and the tide of nationalist sentiment sweeping through society.
As winds sweep these chemical pockets into middle latitudes they encounter sunlight and trigger rapid ozone destruction.
Her glazed porcelain wings billow in a gossamer sweep of iridescence.
They put their chairs on their desks so that the caretaker could sweep the floor.
Watch a kite sweep the skies for large insects such as grasshoppers, cicadas and dragonflies.
Therefore, the whole armada would be spear headed by a flotilla of 287 mine sweepers that would clear the way for the ships behind them.
I refer to the far greater and more sweeping drama in which we are all caught up and which will profoundly affect our world view in the years ahead.
At the start of World War II, he entered the Royal navy and served with distinction on mine sweepers, destroyers, and rocket launchers.
A huge campaign will attempt to sweep away litter and graffiti in a fresh war on crime which is expected to run for a year.
Her broom helped sweep away the clam shells discarded by scavenging racoons and the carcasses of dead mice frozen during the winter.
They paused a while to let a fleet of barges, packed with city dignitaries, sweep by as stately as swans.
The main beach, on the other hand, is a huge sweep of golden sand that attract hundreds of day trippers and is patrolled by lifesavers in distinctive red and yellow caps.
So the seeds are individually detected after each of it is placed in the prostate followed by the ultrasonographer performing a volume sweep on each of them. ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds
Her landscapes range from sweeping panoramas in oils of mountains, lakes and towering coniferous trees to tropical beaches with bold greens and spirited blues.
Councils will get sweeping powers to impose fines and tow away caravans illegally parked on private land.
The khansamah would appear to be the only functionary in residence until the hour of departure draws near, when a whole party of underlings -- chowkidars, bheesties, and sweepers -- appear from nowhere in particular; and the lordly traveller, having presented them with about twopence apiece, rolls off along the dusty white road, leaving the khansamah and his myrmidons salaaming on the verandah. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
One could observe where the power of the Southern Ocean sweeps its mighty rollers up to dash their force onto the land.
Huge monochrome landscapes that portray the stretching expanses of the sea that sweeps up the north Norfolk coast. Times, Sunday Times
The coast sweeps northwards in a wide curve.
-- But she has head that the devil is black; and having a mind to make one of me, brays together, in the mortar of her wild fancy, twenty chimney-sweepers, in order to make one sootier than ordinary rise out of the dirty mass. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7
Woodbine, with big, sweeping turns and a long straight, is the perfect track for European horses.
Lift top leg to hip height then sweep it out in front. The Sun
Sweep on the base colour with a powder brush, blending outwards, then take a good-quality blusher brush with domed bristles try the Body Shop or Mac and grin insincerely so cheeks fatten in the middle. Beauty: Blushers
The article describes the religious mania which is sweeping the US.
A sweepstake was held among rugby scribes in Sydney for the final between Australia and some other mob, the money going to the correspondent predicting the correct score, or nearest.
Les Deli-cieux, on the rooftop of Printemps, draws in diners with its view of sweeping vistas. Dining in Paris Department Stores
Yet again, we have too sweeping a conclusion: that this is a legitimating 'construction of fictive continuities'. The Times Literary Supplement
For instance, I used lots of daylilies which I staggered in a sweeping curve.
With some notable exceptions, modem developments along the Thames have failed to respond to the scale of the river and wide flat sweep of the estuary landscape.
Furthermore, the Scottish curlers had succeeded by deploying the ‘traditional womanly virtues of patience, lower lip-biting and sweeping’.
They bombed granaries and rural villages, destroyed crops and irrigation systems, mined pastures and fields, destroyed herds and launched sweeps through rural areas - conscripting young men and destroying the infrastructure.
A future presidential candidate might have participated in harrowing door-to-door sweeps during the bloody fight for Fallujah last month. December 2004
My job was to sweep the seas with powerful binoculars from the bows on the left side to 45 degrees.
He makes us see and hear with him the tens of thousands of stone cutters and the ring of their tools squaring the "setts"; and then one platoon after another stepping forward and laying down its row of stones followed by rank after rank of men with the paviours 'rammers, which rise and fall at the sweep of the band-master's rods, keeping time in a stately music as they advance; the continuous falling and crashing of the trees as other thousands of hands ply the axes along the lines, that creep, slowly, but visibly, on through the Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
When one impinges on the other there is an uneasy feeling - the kind which happens when unrelated TV shows crossover during the sweeps week on American television.
So sweeping it'll leave your surfaces spotless. Times, Sunday Times
Sweeping global changes in recent years have presented significant new challenges to the US aeronautics industry.
England have the added complication of food poisoning sweeping the camp. The Sun
Street sweeping requires a rudimentary understanding of how a brush works. Times, Sunday Times
Each night she would sweep up to the club in her flashy car and take him home with her. EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER: A Journey Through the Science of Feelings
To sweep it under the carpet and pretend it never happened would only dishonour those, the majority, who are a credit to the country they serve.
Strong winds regularly sweep the islands.
The hotel gardens sweep down to the beach.
Even when, later still, the general's eager hand, stretching forth for the dusky flagon (it was sacrilege to sweep away those insignia of age and respectability), managed to capsize the candelabrum and sent the fluid "adamantine" spattering a treasured table-cloth (how quick the dash of the young trooper's hand upon the flame -- and its extinction!), a gentle smile was the sole rebuke, followed by a "Thank you, Mr. Harris. Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War
It can be argued that a first-person singular such as Mr. Singh is too sweeping, too apt to be essayish and generalized, to be quite accountable all the time. Crack-Up
To one flank rises a sweep of sand dunes that lead off into pristine wilderness. Times, Sunday Times
Different sweeps - sideways, front and back, or up and down - each alter different musical attributes.
Rita permalink you love benefit dandelion – i lurv georgia – sweep and go. its so simple. and then there is smashbox o-gloss – goes on clear and becomes your own personal shade of pink. Makeup makes my world go ’round « Bored Mommy
A rough, dry wind which should sweep away the miasmas of the swamp, the misty staleness of the _Lieder, Liedchen, Liedlein_, as numerous as drops of rain in which inexhaustibly the Germanic _Gemüt_ is poured forth: the countless things like _Sehnsucht_ (Desire), _Heimweh_ (Homesickness), _Aufschwung_ Jean-Christophe, Volume I
A quick sweep of the broom and it was gone back out into the backyard.
The servant had a lazy habit of sweeping the dust under the edge of the mat.
More important, he's not likely to forget that it was a naval minesweeper that picked him up out of the North Sea. SAN ANDREAS
If you're thinking about investing in Asia, look no further than Excelsior Pacific / Asia to play the macroeconomic trends sweeping the region.
The creature was about the size of a bushbok, was a dirty white in colour, and carried a pair of horns about two and a half feet in length, slightly curved, enormously thick at the base, strongly ridged for about half their length, and thence sweeping smoothly away to points as sharp apparently as those of bayonets. Through Veld and Forest An African Story
The gyrocar purred softly away, with two horses left wandering and two men clinging fast in a sweep of wind. Morale A Story of the War of 1941-43
Cooks made big defensive plays coming up on their sweeps.
An outgoing tide can sometimes be a lucky charm when a channel current sweeps all the baitfish through it and the predator fish line up and wait for them.
As a child, he watched a river sweep away the wheat planted on the family farm in Indiana.
Lismore's minor outfit were beaten 21-14 by Notra Dame to destroy chances of a clean sweep.
If voters pass it, California - a bellwether state for criminal justice trends - will have among the country's most sweeping DNA sampling policies.
Grandma is up about then and is found sweeping up the street in front of the family home picking up the beer cans and shoveling away the cinders left from the fires. OK! Now that I know . . . . . .
Sergeant Irving told his squad to sweep the area.
For someone like myself who finds meditative pleasures in sweeping, I'll spend a few more shekels to whisk away all that scuzz and dreck with my plant-based broom.
Early leaves scattered before it, sweeping along the street and piling against the railings of the school.
Located in the town of Ingleside about 12 miles northeast of Corpus Christi, it was the primary home to minesweeping ships belonging to the Navy's Mine Warfare Command. All In for Texas Hold 'Em
The shine is being taken out of Ulverston because of dirty streets cleaned by street sweepers who have become strangers to brooms, the town council agreed this week, reports Jennie Dennett.
In an open voice the narrator implores the reader to ‘Come along,’ to enter the ‘wind’ that sweeps over the cane, to become part of this vision based on an almost physical palpability.
It was one of the many fads that sweep through mathematics regularly.
Apparently, a report commissioned by LC recommends sweeping changes in cataloging procedures, including redefining the "gold standard of quality service" to mean "fast turnaround and delivery of library materials to users ... not the fullness of catalog data. Bad News From the Lilbrary of Congress
This arc of pristine sand sweeps around a bay backed by swaying palm trees. Times, Sunday Times
So not just journalists are being targeted and caught up — also caught up in sweeps, just citizens out in the streets are getting swept up. It’s that ‘land of the free’ again
This is the first time that any Arab government has called for outside military help during the current wave of protests sweeping the region.
Be like and prove oneself talks not and falsely, as well lift T-shirt dime, from wore the outlook that her ash receives to once sweep several best locations of his bodies to grasp a scar.
Wanjiku started sweeping the bare concrete floor round the tatty sofa and dusted Austen's desk which rocked against the shiplap walls. WHITE LIES
We scurried along walls and zig-zagged from floor to floor effortlessly, battering demonic beetles with nunchakus, all to the accompaniment of a sweeping symphonic score.
To take off through the air, casting one's gaze across the endless sweep of the universe or upon the no less exciting realm of the microcosm.
The chief instrumentality of this sweeping program would be a league of nations.
Ranging from complementary offer delivery to sweepstakes prize supply, joint delivery of loyalty programs and referrals, the possibilities are unlimited.
This is a step to bind the working class, sweep aside any right won in the past with its own strength and suppress any uprising if it occurs.
She remembered because she told Paris to let them know that they needed to concentrate their re-modulated multiphasic sensor arrays in sweeps of the same area, the rationale being that two sets of eyes were better than one—especially when looking for a tiny submersible in about twenty-eight cubic kilometers of water. Distant Shores
Each bend in the road reveals yet another breathtaking panorama of the Dinara Mountains that sweep down to the Adriatic, a deep cobalt sea under an azure sky.
From here the ridge broadens out in a wide sweep all the way to the huge cairn on Carn Eighe.
I want to thicken my back and improve the sweep of my quads and upper pecs, and I'll work on my triceps, too.
Hermada is a multi-function cereal whose grains can be used to replace rice or wheat, and its blades of grass can be transformed into sweeps.
Out in the Atlantic, vast Japanese factory ships work nonstop, using modern sonar detection to spot the tuna shoals they sweep the ocean clean of fish.
HAMILTON: Hotez says ideally, vaccines should be administered before cholera is sweeping through an area because they take more than a week to provide protection. Officials Race To Contain Cholera Outbreak In Haiti
The first Indian missile boat attack occurred on 4-5 December, from the south; it sank a destroyer and a coastal minesweeper.
The instrumental color, finely crafted elegance, and glowing sweep of the music were exhilarating.
A bank of five bifold French doors stack to either side of the 15-foot-wide opening for a sweeping view west across the Rio Grande Valley.
The German introduction of the turbojet engine and moderate wing sweepback to improve high-speed flight performance was matched by Allied developments.
It is an easy walk along the concrete seawall that protects the sweeping shoreline. Times, Sunday Times
Lush jungle sweeps by at arm's length, breaking occasionally to reveal lakes, mountains and ships.
And almost immediately she'd felt the forceful beam of Ross's hard grey eyes sweeping over her slender figure.
The victory gave Edwards a sweep of the Cup and Busch races at Atlanta that weekend, and he is the only driver to pick up his first checkered flag in both series the same weekend.
Within these lines she made little dots at the top and bottom of stubby perpendicular strokes, and strange interlineal hieroglyphics, and sweeping curves, all of which would have puzzled an The Place of Honeymoons
The landscape of coastal Massachusetts is a mixture of wooded uplands, rocky outcrops, and long, low meadows that sweep down to the sea.
It's a genre in which sweeping narratives somehow manage to unspool through tiny but highly specific movements like a sharply bowed finger or a knowing lift of the brow. Priyadarsini Govind and Nrityagram Dance Ensemble offer intense Indian dance
Despite all of its concern for the sweep of history and the complexities of world politics, Walk on Water is at its most persuasive in the depiction of the relationship between Eyal and Axel.
The report's tone is admonitory, its assertions sweeping.
Along the lakefront a curving sweep of barberry and daylilies terminated at gazebos overarched by old apple and willow trees.
Jim made another sweep of the room, opening the drawers on the writing desk.
Now this friend was arranging Helen's hair in an intricate, graceful upsweep, with ribbons to match the dress.
We will get a chance for sweeping reform, but will find no joy in emptying the dust pan. Stimulus money needs to be spent faster, Dems say
As she got out and was starting to dry herself, the image of a fanlike lawn sprinkler sweeping back and forth caught her. NEVER WAVE GOODBYE
The seven-time Pro Bowler has been paving the way for 1,000-yard tailbacks for 15 years now, largely thanks to his unique speed for a lineman and ability to pull on sweeps from the interior of the line. The not-so-Super team: Best players never to reach the final
Yet the world champion is so unpredictably gifted that one on-song display could easily enable her to sweep aside the opposition.
The sweep up to the front of the $300-a-night hotel is rich with wafts of untreated river water.
The servant had a lazy habit of sweeping the dust under the edge of the mat.
Getting dressed on the side of a logging road with no real place to park, we scramble to get our clothes on, gear stashed and snowshoes lashed to our boots before the first crazed logger sweeps around the corner in his big rig.
I started to sweep the sand up - I do this periodically, sieve it clean andreturn it to the sandpit. *sigh* Parenting.
Angus had already poured his first glass of Tassie sauvignon blanc as we surveyed the 270-degree sweep of the ocean from the lodge's deck.
Just as a sweeping hand motion in freestyle (the "S" pattern) can help you grab more water, this inward-moving kick can help you grab a bit more water during the path to the finish of the kick.
Socinians, and Quakers: all of whom Kettledrummle proposed, by one sweeping act, to expel from the land, and thus re-edify in its integrity the beauty of the sanctuary. Old Mortality
If we don't have room for a glover, blacksmith, steamfitter, cobbler, hooper, chimney sweep and Balkan restaurant, what good are we? Archive 2006-10-01
Chisel shares, semi-and full duckfoot and sweep shares are commonly found in practice. 1. Labour productivity and distribution
Hoogie, whose new coiffed hairdo is a match for Thorpe's sweeping Eurotrash look, ripped the olive branch off his head after receiving his silver medal behind the Australian.
The classic English fairy tale is embellished with elegant visual sweeps of the beanstalk and the castle in the sky.
CBS affiliate KPIX-TV spokesperson Akilah Monifa said that due to sweeps, no one was available to comment on the station's lack of coverage.
Their other advantages are warmth and ease of cleaning with a carpet sweeper or vacuum cleaner.
The sweeping rise and fall of the melody settled softly into her mind.
Over the two days of competition, Navy teams battled it out in the 20 man and 12 man events with crews containing paddlers, a sweep and drummer.
Back then he was as famous for his angelic face and sweeping fringe as his hits. The Sun
A craze sweeping the nation is to sport a yellow wristband known as ‘Livestrong’, a trend started by champion cyclist Lance Armstrong.
His soft brown strands of silken hair shine in the fading sunlight, gently sweeping into his eyes and over the planes of his face.
The shape of the elongated spiky dorsal fin is reflected in the sweep of the flowing ventral fins.
The highest eulogy that can be pronounced on the intellectual character of a ruler, in times of great civil convulsion, is that it is his policy to have no policy, content with keeping his ship trim as he permits her to sweep downwards with the precipitous torrent. An Address in Commemoration of Abraham Lincoln
The nightly sweeps of raids and arrests are reinforced by daytime roadblocks and identity checks. Times, Sunday Times
The owner of the store was sweeping his floor when I walked in.
Newspaper editorials spoke of the need to sweep away corrupt practices in local government.
Unlike the other girls, whose only vestiary accommodation to the day's activities has been to sweep their hair out of the way with butterfly barrettes, Calloway sports a blue Derek Jeter jersey and her hair is done up in careful rows of tight braids that won't come down right after practice.
Bordeaux has a similar route — the D2 — a road that runs through the Left Bank commune of the M é doc, sweeping through some of the most famous appellations in the world, such as Margaux, Saint-Julien, Pauillac and Saint-Est è phe. Exploring the Wine Route
Now she set the figure on a pedestal, a blank-faced, bulgy-eyed little goat gazing into space, its wide stubby tail sweeping over its back while it grasped a large baseball in its hand; a sort of ghoulish beauty now emanated from the figure. Antonia Cruz Rafael: the ceramics of Ocumicho, Michoacan
Experts say the freeze will be followed by heavy rain and gales sweeping in by the middle of next week. The Sun
From the stone walls and landscaped embankments to the sweep of the footbridges and the modern viaduct that carries the road over the river, this scheme was designed not just not to offend the eye but to please it.
Thus comes it that we take a final glance through two childish prison-houses, in far-separate Russian cities, wherein a youth and a maiden lie nightly dreaming the same dreams: one of them a spirit already bonded to the service of mind under the whip of circumstance: destined to storm rocky heights, from which hard-won eminences he shall command great views of sweeping plains and far-off mountain ranges; the other a pretty chrysalis on the eve of her change into a butterfly of butterflies; who is, nevertheless, to attempt flights overhigh and overfar for her frail wings; venturing to unfriendly lands whence she must return with frayed and tired pinions and a bruised and bleeding little soul. The Genius
Julia Fordham sings in a smoky contralto that can also sweep upward to grab those higher tones when needed.
The grey seafog sweeps in, blurring the boundary between sea and land, disorientating anyone held in its spell.
We walked down the tar road that was shimmering in the heat, dodging the occasional car sweeping past, until we came to the bridge.
The craze that is sweeping America and Europe, sending crowds flocking to landmarks or shops to stage zany gatherings, arrived in Yorkshire at the weekend.
Over the course of 15 tracks, they gently shift from dark, carnival oompah to breathy, folky ballads to sweeping, expansive pop and old-timey backwoods country.
The poor sweepers in India would be stunned by the exalted status of the sanitation workers in America, who make pretty handsome salaries.
The conventionary passed his hand across his brow, as though to sweep away a cloud. Les Miserables
In his many books and articles, he posed sweeping questions about the nature of Islamic art, seeking to discover the impulses that generated its specific forms and dynamics of growth, and to explore the interconnections between faith and sociohistorical circumstances in its development. NYT > Home Page
Over this two - mile stretch, the massive sweep of the Junction Pool, with its lovely, choppy fly water at the throat and its tantalisingly glassy tail, is a sure thing at this time of year.
The administrative reorganization of France into departments, sweeping away the jurisdictional jungle grown up over a millennium, survives not much altered to this day.
Up the track, sweeping in a great circle as it swung the curve, a headlight's glare cut through the night -- and Toddles "shinned" the foot. The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories
Thirty-four of those suspects were arrested early Friday in a sweep by federal agents.
The trembling women were smitten into an ecstasy of bewildered fear (as one of the words, 'affrighted' might more accurately be rendered), and his consolation to them, 'Be not affrighted, ye seek Jesus,' suggests that, in all the great sweep of the unseen universe, whatsoever beings may people that to us apparently waste and solitary space, howsoever many they may be, Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark
When he sent weather balloons high into the atmosphere he was surprised to find them blown away by powerful high-altitude winds sweeping eastwards. Times, Sunday Times
The Mets are building a huge lead and could leave the Giants with no postseason hopes except for a division title with a sweep of this weekend's four-game series in New York.
I have seen illustrations in shipbuilding, where, after making quite a sweep, discharging of men that worked on a vessel, we drove more rivets with the smaller force than we did before. Conditions in the United States
He ghosted past two tackles and slipped the ball to his forward to sweep the ball into the empty net.
After filling the drinking water, I had to wash utensils, wash two buckets of clothes, sweep and mop the entire house.
I had made up my mind at the Scenic Overlook to make a clean sweep through the house.
But the harshest rhetoric and most sweeping policy changes have been reserved for the poor, particularly poor women.
Builders and road sweepers armed with brushes were among passers-by who stopped them. Times, Sunday Times
An unimpeded sweep of meadows and hills afforded a peaceful setting.
With two $1m winners last year, FreeLotto is now among the most popular internet sweepstakes in the US.
It is far too early to make sweeping statements about gene therapy.
Troubled times: Qaddafi's newfound coziness with Western nations, however, has done little to shield him from the wave of unrest currently sweeping the Arab world.

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