How To Use Sweeping In A Sentence

As the phalanx of furious, excited inmates came sweeping into the servery, Jerrold recognised his danger. THE SCAR
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
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
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.
Establishment politicians don't quite seem to grasp the changes that are sweeping through the country.
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
The body was low-slung, sweeping up to a neat fastback, the windows tinted dark.
Transnational links were shattered by closing frontiers and the tide of nationalist sentiment sweeping through society.
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.
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.
Woodbine, with big, sweeping turns and a long straight, is the perfect track for European horses.
The article describes the religious mania which is sweeping the US.
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.
Furthermore, the Scottish curlers had succeeded by deploying the ‘traditional womanly virtues of patience, lower lip-biting and sweeping’.
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
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
The servant had a lazy habit of sweeping the dust under the edge of the mat.
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
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 . . . . . .
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
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 is the first time that any Arab government has called for outside military help during the current wave of protests sweeping the region.
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.
The chief instrumentality of this sweeping program would be a league of nations.
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
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.
It is an easy walk along the concrete seawall that protects the sweeping shoreline. Times, Sunday Times
And almost immediately she'd felt the forceful beam of Ross's hard grey eyes sweeping over her slender figure.
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
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
The report's tone is admonitory, its assertions sweeping.
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 servant had a lazy habit of sweeping the dust under the edge of the mat.
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
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 sweeping rise and fall of the melody settled softly into her mind.
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 owner of the store was sweeping his floor when I walked in.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
But the harshest rhetoric and most sweeping policy changes have been reserved for the poor, particularly poor women.
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.
We called in at a discount store on the way home but we weren't really in the mood for shopping and nothing there appealed to us except a dustpan and brush for sweeping up all those cat hairs.
To call this footage anything other than cutting room floor sweepings would be to mislabel them.
Analysts say sweeping tax reform that comes into effect in January 2002 is another key factor.
Thanks friend," he said, while sweeping the money into his pocket.
The wave simply swept through, destroying buildings along the way, sweeping people away and carrying them into the lagoons behind.
Known for his sweeping, orchestral presentation, the puppy-petting "popera" star dials it down a notch with an intimate show featuring only voice, guitar and piano. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Privacy advocates called it the most sweeping privacy law in decades and said it would have a major impact on health care.
It is far too early to make sweeping statements about gene therapy.
But sweeping narrative is not Leaf's style; instead, she represents incisive moments, many of them funny, some harrowing, and all equally free of portent and nostalgia.
The sweeping staircase has been refurbished and the house has a new roof, conservatory and flooring, as well as new fireplaces to replace the looted originals. Times, Sunday Times
It's looking very handsome out back, all sweeping lawns backed by a soft mixed hedge perhaps ten feet high, composed of a good blend of native trees and bushes.
The great sweeping ideologies had been a failure. Times, Sunday Times
Erasure, like silence, suggests a sweeping lack of authority by owning up to a loss of control.
Samantha Cameron, Smythson creative adviser and the British prime minister's wife, chose a particularly day-glo shade for the cover of the stationer's beloved Fashion Diary this year, and Raf Simons cut a floor-sweeping skirt the tint of bubbly Fanta at Jil Sander. Orange Crush
Be ready to make a mercy dash after heavy snow, shaking it off the upward sweeping branches of conifers. Times, Sunday Times
Mr. Sembiring claims legal authority for his various crusades from sweeping antipornography legislation passed in 2008, a law that has become a powerful tool for advancing Islamic values in a religiously diverse but secular, majority Muslim state. RIM on the Ropes
The sweepings are from a previous search in February 2003 which has already been dealt with by the court.
For a democracy enjoying peace and plenty, the terms of the Bill were sweeping.
Their gowns or tunics are so immensely long, that the fair dames are obliged to hold them up, to enable them to move; whilst a sweeping train trails after them; and over the head and round the neck is a variety of, or substitute for, the wimple, which is termed a _gorget_. Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851
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There's a few sweeping statements in there that would not stand up to scrutiny.
Nigel was beaten down on to the crupper of his horse by a sweeping blow; but at the same instant Chandos 'quick blade passed through the Frenchman's camail and pierced his throat. Sir Nigel
I became aware of a rush broom in a far corner and, hung along the wall, bags of sweepings.
Be ready to make a mercy dash after heavy snow, shaking it off the upward sweeping branches of conifers. Times, Sunday Times
This farmer spreads his barley sweepings and leftovers on the field, and this must have been what attracted them. Times, Sunday Times
The aggressive front end with its big grille and air-scoop gave way to sweeping compound curves as you moved towards the rear of the car.
“ 'Well, since I am disowned, and relegated to the sweepings,' the old man begins, draped in his sayon, and with a majesty that frightens us, 'you shall hear the crow sing!' Frederic Mistral
The neighborhood's main attraction, however, is Glen Canyon Park, a 70-acre swath of city-owned wilderness nestled in a sweeping ravine and just out of sight of several major roads.
Like the 1939 classic it adores, Australia is stiltedly comical, sweepingly starry-eyed, and melodramatic in its approach to war and racism. Buzzine » DVD Roundup
The former history professor frequently held court about the technological changes sweeping the nation and the political implications thereof. DOT.CON
It features soulful vocals over sweeping violins and a twangy bassline. Times, Sunday Times
By my halidom!" and all the rest of the sweepings and tailings of Scott and the third-rate romanticists. A Lost Story
Anyway, he is very industrious and energetic in his sweeping.
Detecting a certain ennui sweeping across Belfast's healthy but slightly stale, generic dance music-dominated gay scene just over a year ago, Niamh Rowan, Mairead Hughes and Stephen Dorothy launched Eclektric, offering a fusion of left-of-centre electronica, indie and pop with an equally quirky dose of live-mixed visuals. Clubs picks of the week
The manor house where Orwell, a declared socialist, was forced to recuperate during one of his lung hemorrhages is among the island's most patrician -- bone-white, with many fluted chimneys, its own boat dock and a tamed lawn as sweeping as the playing fields of Eton, Eric Blair's alma mater. Literary Pilgrimages: George Orwell
Can you hear the wind sweeping through the branches?
On top of this, sweeping technological change, immigration, and imports have made conditions difficult for undereducated workers.
Royal Marines sweeping the mountains have discovered a significant arms dump in a cave complex.
Visually sumptuous, the film overwhelms with sweeping shots of the now bleak, desolate, "Potter"-dom. ABC News: Top Stories
The cold Benguela Current sweeping northwards supports the best fishing on the southwest coast of Africa, and in season South African anglers flock here to catch steenbras, galjoen and blacktail. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
He provides a sweeping overview of the period and engages with many of the ideas Europe is struggling with about its future.
With a sweeping gesture, she lowered the dipper into the steaming cauldron holding the noxious purple brew that was going to cure Alicia's headaches and Chino's gall-bladder problems.
It has a sweeping driveway, terrace and a curved brick wall surrounding an orchard. Times, Sunday Times
Grimsby and her sister ships are specifically minehunters - instead of sweeping for devices, they use powerful sonar to pick out suspicious objects in deep and exposed waters and identify them.
He didn't speak as he led her through a stone-floored hallway to a sweeping staircase.
She stuck her head out of the stall to see Arlan in a sweeping black cloak, a haversack over his shoulder, a scowl on his face.
Many different countries, with very different cultures and economies are classed under the term third world and I will be examining how accurate or inaccurate the sweeping "third world" statement may be and the possible justifications for its continued use by not only the media and charity organisations, but the leaders of the third world themselves. The British National Party
The figures suggest that sweeping reforms to a system riddled with bureaucracy and inertia are beginning to bear fruit. Times, Sunday Times
Hospitals across the country were forced to close wards after a winter vomiting virus began sweeping the country. Times, Sunday Times
The scenery is flat and open, lacking in trees and hills but with sweeping vistas across stunning landscapes.
So I made some vague, sweeping statements, as usual, and Meg made them into code and pictures and layout.
Court officials will be handed sweeping powers to enter homes in a bid to crack down on fine-dodgers.
Heavy rain sweeping eastwards across the south. The Sun
When you do push it beyond the limit of grip into a sweeping bend or large roundabout the front end drifts wide, revealing that the chassis is biased towards mild understeer.
The idea that the Mexican state is on the verge of collapse or that narco-violence is relentlessly sweeping north echo the kind of hyperbolized threat of Africanized bees or Sandinista convoys swarming our southern border during the Reagan era. Ted Lewis: Bad Assumptions Guide US Policy on Day of Obama Visit to Mexico
The official excuse for a sudden wave sweeping every column inch of coverage is that a genuine revelation has occurred.
Sadly, if it continues, that is what is threatening to become of the great Liberal Party tradition: a cold-hearted butcher to the withering slab of the Australian body, and the public get sausages for policy from the sweepings off the floor.
It is a very attractive, narrow evergreen with upsweeping branches and drooping branchlets.
An internet cleansing movement, or antismut campaign launched by the Chinese authority, is sweeping across the internet in recent days. China Media Blog
Radical, sweeping changes are riskier but often more effective, because they quickly yield benefits visible to everyone.
The energumens, who were exorcized daily, were prevented by the daily exorcisms and sweeping duties from pursuing their usual callings.
They would be awakened by a weight pressing on them, or the clothes would be pulled from the bed, or they would hear the sound of a dress sweeping the floor.
And there was poor old Flashy, caught behind the companies of the 24th as they poured their volley-firing into the "chest" of the Zulu army, cheering and shouting for the ammunition-carriers, and Durnford 's bald forehead glinting in the sun above his splendid whiskers as he pulled his men back to the donga and blazed away at the left "horn" sweeping in towards them. Watershed
In smoke-coloured folds, closely matching the lowering dim canopy of vapour brooding overhead, the prairie spread about her, deepening to a basined valley in the middle distances, sweeping to a rise beyond, so that the edges of the basin looked down upon the town. The Dop Doctor
When street sweeping and a boxing match against a bruiser twice his size fail to raise the necessary funds, the Tramp turns to his millionaire friend for help.
A stone travelling more slowly can be made to go further with the assistance of your team mates, sweeping vigorously just in front of its path, warming the ice and making it more slippy.
In addition to rubbish collection and street sweeping, they clear litter from the open spaces in twelve of the council's estates.
Somewhere along the line, perhaps around the time most people forgot its steps, the name metamorphosed into a sweeping term that could encompass almost all of African-American popular music, or at least everything that has arisen since World War II. One Nation Under a Groove
She could have typeset their pretty record of the expedition, ridden bareback on the ponies with her sweeping hair, floored him in their singing contest, sewn ration bags, repaired worn socks.
Zander de Bruyn missed his hundred, bowled sweeping at the young, slow left-armer Danny Briggs for 95. Somerset scent victory over Hampshire after James Hildreth century
A bitter row could be brewing as anxious publicans face sweeping changes to the licensing system.
It is this convergence of class, gender, and race that makes a sweeping attack on one segment of society possible.
He guns the engine and gels away from them, sweeping up to the front door and locking up the brakes in a skid.
The patch of ground she was sweeping is now a smart lawn rimmed with flowers and a vegetable garden.
Finally, there's a sweeping vista of a white beach fringed with coconut palms, with a pristine coral reef.
Security forces were given sweeping powers to search homes.
The servant had a lazy habit of sweeping the dust under the edge of the mat.
The following afternoon they encountered not a herd of the achivar but a veritable spiny army, sweeping toward them from the south. The Deluge Drivers
Twilight at Mrs. Wickett's, when the School bell clanged for call-over, brought them back to him in a cloud — Katherine scampering along the stone corridors, laughing beside him at some "howler" in an essay he was marking, taking the cello part in a Mozart trio for the School concert, her creamy arm sweeping over the brown sheen of the instrument. Goodbye, Mr Chips
Sweepingly, postmeridian can recently pomatomus by an premedical foolhardy of the imperceptibility of ablaut bedrock and uncooked mellon. Rational Review
Rowing equipment is costly - an eight man sweeping boat, the largest of rowing shells, runs in around $28,000.
He observed that he was the victim of a tide of radicalism sweeping Europe: revolution in Russia, anticlerical radicalism in France, socialist advance in Germany.
The owner of the store was sweeping his floor when I walked in.
The storm is sweeping past, already the rain diminishes, the lightning pales, the thunder retreats till leagues and leagues away we hear it "moaning and calling out of other lands. An Island Garden
She is a vision of sweeping strides and soft steps swathed in airy veils and supple furs.
The eminent historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. has sometimes been labeled a hagiographer for the Camelot chords he struck, but A Thousand Days is an intricate and serious narrative biography with sweeping historical themes and incisive drypoint character sketches. American Sketches
Belmont Park is a broad sweeping track which will suit the European style of running.
The main roles of the ships are: coastal surveillance, naval reserve force training, mine countermeasures for route survey, minesweeping and mine inspection operations.
The government in July said it would set up a regulator outside of the ministry and in August, the previous minister, Banri Kaieda, fired the country's top energy bureaucrats in what he called "sweeping" changes. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
He was wearing full, sweeping chaparejos, and on the blaze-faced roan he rode was a high-horned The Pride of Hannah Wade
Of course, these podiums did not literally resemble the gondolas in the canals outside, except in very general terms - their sweeping curves and elevated tips.
He made a sweeping gesture at the microphones, cameras and reporters.
The silence was broken as the warder hung the notices, the crowd rushed forward, blocking the road, halting the traffic, and sweeping the police aside.
Paul Zahl in his book Deliver us from Evil gives a graphic illustration of a bush fire sweeping towards two duck hunters.
The court's decisions range from the sweeping to the minute.
Home to the world's largest dormant volcano, Haleakala, the park offers hiking and horseback riding trails and sweeping views.
The centre was involved again for his team's third when a sweeping move which started in the Naas twenty two criss-crossed the pitch and finished in the hands of Barry Walsh, who barged into the try area.
He creates so many goals for others with his precision crosses and his sweeping through balls.
Fans of Johar, however, need not fear, as the director still inserts his characteristic film tropes: the park bench, the sweeping skyline and a saccharine let's-fall-in-love song picturisation. The Asian News - RSS Feed
They are winds that put the mind in tumult, sweeping us along like ships in a gale, and as storms disturb the harmony of nature, passions are discordant and jangling.
It is a sweeping blow and only one who has seen them in action knows how tremendous it is.
The personal, intersocial, sympathetic, moral, and religious relations and obligations, would have to be summarily set aside for future revision, if not for sweeping rejection. Life: Its True Genesis
Fortunately, the chore of leaf sweeping is well worth the effort.
This car wears about as fresh and handsome a suit of clothes as a four-door sedan can … The roofline is a single sweeping curve from front pillar to rear," and the chrome band across the grille is "repeated in back" with a broad chrome band along the trunk lid, "attests Automedia. The Car Connection
Using the brush provided you apply the mask to the face and neck using an upwards and outwards sweeping motion. The Sun
To what extent did Blunt succeed in melding the old-fashioned qualities of the "perfect" ranch wife with the ideals set forth by the feminist movement sweeping through the county in the 1960s? Breaking Clean by Judy Blunt: Questions
Whenever the noise of warplanes began the child would mime the approaching bombers, sweeping her arms through the air.
With its lush scenery, vivid colours and sweeping vistas, the film is a sumptuous feast for the eyes. The Sun
The effect was caused by it sweeping along the lowest point of elliptical orbit around the Earth as it was in its full phase. Times, Sunday Times
Paltrow plays a businesswoman infected by a deadly virus sweeping the globe. The Sun
Flags and Slovenian colours are sweeping the town, and shop windows are being painted.
He was a great driver of the ball, but with his irons he didn't come down on a steep enough plane, and he hit these sweeping draws.
The road should have as broad, sweeping curves as the site will allow.
The referee made a sweeping gesture with his arm over the prostrate figure of the white fighter.
In winter, it looks positively Alpine when the snow forms sweeping cornices.
To the left the beach runs round to a low cliff, sweeping back to the right and vanishing into blue haze. IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
It was the official uniform of motherhood and she looked like the angel of terror and memory sweeping down from the sky.
The election fever is sweeping through Zambia and it is not a surprise there is pushing and pulling amongst politicians both in the ruling party and the opposition camps.
It was beautiful, in the same way that frost etchings on windowpanes are beautiful: cold, ordered, sweeping and vast.
He gestured with the knife in a wide sweeping move, and from between the pillars, several dozen young people entered the circle.
Rhotic and non-rhotic are terms I never use coz they seem too sweeping etc. Intrusive r | Linguism | Language Blog
Congress recently enacted sweeping anti-terrorism legislation which expanded law enforcement powers, and outlawed biological materials.
They flow with gentle curves and long, sweeping tails.
Berlusconi then reverted to his normal strategy by pleading for several more years to put into effect the sweeping reforms he had promised on his election.
David Machuca suggested the Peruvian medical student Daniel Alcides Carrión, who wanted to know if "Oroya fever" - a lethal and hitherto unknown disease sweeping across his country - was linked to an increase in the incidence of growths wart-like eruptions known as "verruga peruana". New Scientist - Earth
Well, I was outside the shop sweeping the dead leaves and flower stems away into the street gutter, and He walked by.

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