How To Use swept In A Sentence
- Trent ducked under another swing attack, swept with his feet in a scissors kick that tripped up his opponent and forced him to the ground.
- _merit-thermometer_, a sort of _Aeolian-harp-test_; in the flat parts his voice was unimpassioned, but if the gust of genius swept over the wires, his tones rose in intensity, till his own energy of feeling and expression kindled in others a sympathetic impulse, which the dull were forced to feel, whilst his animated recitations threw fresh meaning into the minds of the more discerning. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
- He offered his arm to her, and the four of them swept out of the door into the blustery weather.
- He swept his hands up and down the smooth sides, trying to find a notch or groove.
- Have you failed to hear a word he's said since he swept you off your perfectly pedicured feet and into the nearest watering hole?
- The swimmer was swept away by the current.
- Vast clouds of volcanic dust were shot into the stratosphere and swept around the globe. Times, Sunday Times
- But this subtlety is swept aside in performances that are simply too hard-driven.
- It is more than a decade since a coach and her young prodigy stood on a windswept Sheffield running track and envisaged the future. Times, Sunday Times
- Flying this kite among the otherwise conventional swept wings on a breezy day was initially eerie.
