How To Use Swept In A Sentence

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.
The cliffs closed in as the river swept round a bend, its waves slapping against vertical rocks.
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.
At least one car was overturned and others had windows smashed by what locals described as a mini tornado that swept through the area shortly before 1pm.
Kislev is a land of dark pine forests, snow-clad wilderness and wind-swept steppes.
The streets were swept with electronic gadgets seeking hidden bombs.
The organist was a slightish man, white-haired, who seemed to hover in the alcove, his back to the audience, wizardly in his very smallness, and he hit the thunder pedal just as a figure on the screen drew back cowering from some danger above, and laughter swept the auditorium. Underworld
Sehwag let a couple go by, 'hipped' one away and then reverse swept him magnificently past point. Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'
Negotiations, then, must not be unduly hurried while the veldt was a bare russet-coloured dust-swept plain. The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct
From a flurry of delighted children sledging down a snowswept street in Bath to policemen joining in with group of teenagers having a snowball fight in Poole - your pics are helping us capture Britain as it is swept by snow.
Katherine grinned as she was swept to the left by the waltz, her eyes gleaming underneath the light of the crystal chandeliers.
Early this morning, a blast of freezing rain and ice swept across parts of Georgia and the Carolinas.
Opened in 2007, the family-run Forte S ā o Jo ā o da Barra is part of a small but growing band of hotels running countercurrent to the wave of mass tourism that has swept over much of the Algarve region during the past 40 years. Portugal's Alluring Hideaways
A veil of acknowledgment swept across her face as she slowly lifted her eyes and shifted her expression to see me.
Beyond, the Pacific, dim and vast, was raising on its sky-line tumbled cloud-masses that swept landward, giving warning of the first blustering breath of winter. Chapter 21
Its seamless curve swept across the canyon and imbedded itself in each side, a gigantic but somehow graceful intrusion.
Don't trample mud from your shoes on to the floor; I've just this minute swept it.
To his surprise,he swept through the exit easily.
I saw it over and over again, blooming bravely in dooryard gardens despite the sizzling heat on the rough, wind-swept prairies.
Clad in a nightdress, boots (no socks) and a mackintosh, I am swept along by the crowd running before the speeding police jeeps until we are surrounded on all sides by heavily armed police.
_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
A throwback to the Polynesian craze that swept North America in the '50s and '60s, the restaurant is full of Eastern Island statuettes, wooden tikis and a Hawaiian ukulele soundtrack.
After we had lost all steerage way we were swept bodily southwards by the inblowing winds towards the cyclone's centre.
Upon his return he felt "exhilarated" by the new mood that had swept over the country. A Chinese Art 'Star' in His Sphere
Her shiny, long, brown hair was parted on the side, and swept back into a mass of curly locks at the nape of her neck.
Soon, however, social turmoil swept the country, weakening the monarch's effectiveness as an arbiter of political disputes, and exacerbating communal violence among Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa, the three major ethnic communities.
She stumbles off the escalator and is swept along with the crowd of Asian businessmen and tourists towards the luggage carousel.
A rush of pure affection swept over him.
A spangled shoal of fish swept by him, rainbow-hued, fins of intricate filigree. CORMORANT
The question of food miles is swept away with the explanation that they need the sun to ripen their fruit. Times, Sunday Times
The labour unrest which swept the country last week has quietened down.
On one occasion we enjoyed a medium drift down a V-shaped channel, watching the usual teeming reef life flash by below and finning back every now and then to peer into crevices before being swept on.
The Blackshirt column would be swept up and engulfed when it appeared. THE WHITE DOVE
Immediately after the first sea swept over our stern, I ordered the Boatswain to take sufficient men and shutters to close all windows in the after cabin.
A light wind swept over the shoreline, rippling Tilly's hair gently in the breeze as she sat cross legged on the ground, staring out over the sea.
The MiGs dropped like hawks stooping on their prey, four silver-gray aircraft with backswept delta wings. Carrie
Those songs are so full of life and spirit here, it's impossible not to be swept up in their grandeur and occasional sadness and desolation.
Switzerland swept the board in the skiing competition.
Lake Taupo looked windswept and the volcanoes were obscured by low grey cloud.
Thu 10/22/09 6: 48 PM tuna salad past it’s expiration date, pumpkin insides, apple cores, the gum from underneath my shoe, the stuff I swept out from underneath my kids beds, the after effects of a sixth grade science experiment gone horribly wrong … Is Jon Gosselin worth $10K? (Hate to say it, but maybe he is...) | EW.com
She has remained still, unchanging, as change has swept through the world around her.
There were even suggestions the England team's hotel was swept for bugging devices during the 2003 Six Nations series.
The next moment a giant delphin swept down from the hills, the animal and ferret rider in ancient colors. Writer Ferrets: Chasing the Muse
The trade union movement was swept along by the same tidal wave of patriotism which affected the country as a whole.
Almost all were too stunned to speak, as fire swept through the nearby houses, including their own. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
I reminisce about the sight of a hawksbill turtle and the sound it made as it swept its fins over the sand for a comfortable spot to lay eggs.
As you devour this book, you will be swept away to another world - and want to stay there. The Sun
These elements are set against a large field in shades of pink, swept with arabesques of grays and dashes of white, sometimes with light impasto in the brushwork.
Also striking was a realistic portrait from around 1970 of a woman with upswept hair seated in an ornate chair and another more painterly portrait of a faceless male figure against a background of abstract gestures.
I find it interesting that both "Obama gaffes," from the first and the most recent debates, occured with questions where he was the first to answer, followed by Hillary Clinton who swept in and "whomped" him - proving his inexperience. John Edwards Doesn't Exist. Why? Because He Just Doesn't.
The icefall created waves as tall as 11.5 feet, which swept up and down the lake for 30 minutes. Quake in New Zealand kills at least 65, traps more; shears ice from glacier
Swept Overboard is scheduled to make just two more starts before heading to Japan for stud duty at Shadai Stallion Station.
Jennifer Lopez, in a strapless dress and an upswept hairstyle, waved from a balcony to admirers on the floor of Union Station at the Latino Inaugural Gala on Sunday night. Life of the Party: Latin Flair in Washington - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
I have many memories of being foundered on that windswept strand in the name of family holiday time.
PLANNINGPlanning laws will be swept away in a bid to unleash a wave of housebuilding; councils will be allowed to keep more of the tax paid by local businesses, giving them an incentive to approve new development. Budget 2011: Osborne will ease the pain while keeping his cutting edge
Two or three athletes, who stood erect on their boards as they swept exultingly shorewards, were received with ringing cheers by the crowd. The Hawaiian Archipelago
Gulls crawled up the wall of the wind and a jet-skier swept by, spray trailing him like a broken wing, a petrol-driven petrel. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
A terrific east wind swept away the groups of clouds.
A prairie fire had swept away all traces of vegetation and there was a black, funereal mantle as far as the eye could reach in every direction.
The epidemic swept off most of the villagers.
Both originated on our vast wind-swept prairies for good reason.
Yes, 20 years of fantasies of breaking through that Vulcan reserve and being swept up into a passional Vulcan embrace. February 2007
We've been fortunate because none of the eyes' of the hurricanes have swept through our area.
The boat overturned, and the people in it were swept into the foaming water, but were retrieved.
As the fire swept over the car the fuel tank began to boil and a six metre jet of flames spurted out of the back of the car.
The pain from her leg, ribs, and back swept over her in one giant wave forcing her to the floor again.
Pay attention to detail in the portfolio images and notice if the photographer has neglected unswept floors or left unsightly trash cans in view.
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
His stormy gaze swept over all the buildings until it landed on a run down apartment with boarded up windows and crumbling walls.
The sexual revolution has swept up young adults in a perilous tailspin.
We're actually quite a hopeful, not to say romantic, lot schlepping off to plays week after week in hopes of being swept off our feet.
As the fingerpicking gets faster and more furious, you get swept up in the frenzy without even once noticing how out-there the opinions or plans you're contemplating are.
We stood on the windswept ridge and looked down at the valley below.
Fortunately, Graham is understanding and, when he comes home and finds a cobweb here and an unswept patch there he waits until I'm not looking and puts it to rights for me.
Just my hair swept under a baseball cap. I have also learned to ignore some advice over the years. The Sun
One is not even made wet by the rain nor cold by the frost; while death, instead of stalking about grewsome and accidental, becomes a prearranged pageant, moving along a well-oiled groove to the family vault, where the hinges are kept from rusting and the dust from the air is swept continually away. THE UNEXPECTED
They had had to ram the boat into the bank in order to avoid being swept away - or sinking, since the planking proved far from watertight. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
Aerial photographs showed great swaths of slum dwellings flattened or swept away by landslides. Times, Sunday Times
Professor Ramsay has published an account of a downthrow in Anglesea of 2,300 feet; and he informs me that he fully believes that there is one in Merionethshire of 12,000 feet; yet in these cases there is nothing on the surface of the land to show such prodigious movements; the pile of rocks on either side of the crack having been smoothly swept away. X. On the Imperfection of the Geological Record. On the Lapse of Time, as Inferred from the Rate of Deposition and Extent of Denudation
In the cart house across the street, swept clean in advance, a barrel of Guinness was set on a trestle and the black stuff was dispensed to all comers.
She tangled her hands in his hair, loving the soft feel of it, reveling in the sheer pleasurable delights she was being swept up in.
The volcanic cloud gradually swept around the northern hemisphere as a thin veil of dust and acid. Times, Sunday Times
Immediately, they swept across the room, searching for anyone who may have entered.
You might have seen this tall man, hair swept back, with a thick black moustache striding the stage in plays.
Fire swept through a multi-storey nursing home in eastern India on Friday morning, killing at least 35 people and trapping many more elderly residents in the smoke-filled building, an official said. Fire kills 20 at Indian nursing home
Aerial photographs showed great swaths of slum dwellings flattened or swept away by landslides. Times, Sunday Times
Though Boston swept Anaheim in the League Division Series, Guerrero was not finished.
Can't see the windswept look catching on. The Sun
The Admiral remembers all too clearly returning from long Cold War submarine patrols, and having to queue on a rainswept jetty to use a phone.
The possibility of being swept away by a cumulonimbus cloud or non-English-speaking tourists drinking frozen lemonade and carrying digital cameras in pedicabs in Central Park? Storm Chaser and Tank Blow Into Town
In 2003, Dutch agriculturalist Marc de Ruiter saw dairy farmers in windswept Shanxi province literally pouring their milk down the drain because there was not enough demand.
Laurel Canyon (2003), each focused on an innocent young woman swept up in the glamorously baffling sex-and-drugs scene swirling around a charismatic older female artist, the situation here is reversed; unexpectedly drawn in to and fascinated by the ultra-domestic household created by a pair of charismatic femmes, the swinger is the straight man (literally). SF Weekly | Complete Issue
The River Araxes is noisy, rapid, vehement, and, with the melting of the snows, irresistible: the strongest and most massy bridges are swept away by the current; and its indignation is attested by the ruins of many arches near the old town of Zulfa. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Timothy tenderly swept stray locks of hair from her face.
Canadian bareback rider Kyle Bowers swept the event, winning both the slalom and Stampede races.
The man threw up an arm to ward him off, but Quin swept it aside and knocked him out cold with a single blow.
Her barely there makeup took almost an hour to apply and she’d arranged her hair in an upswept ’do that required forty-five minutes of concentration as she created an off-center part, gathered her hair tightly into place, and then strategically released strands of hair, allowing the tresses to dangle, successfully pulling off the impression of whimsical undoneness that was both capricious and exceedingly sexy. Pure Paradise
We double-teamed the flocks, an archer in the lead and the scattergun as backup when the birds took to wing, watching for hunting jaegers and glassing from windswept ridgelines. The Great Alaskan Cast and Blast
The searchlights swept across the sky
A brisk motion of his hand swept the last of the crypt dust away, and the magic word scribed on its side seemed to glow: Atari. The Escapist : Latest News
Seven generations of Kelpers have made their homes on the remote, wind-swept islands.
Just then a bearded, hatted figure swept into their midst. LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
Moreover, Bartol and company managed to visualize the flow of water around a boxfish by placing neutrally buoyant beads in the water and filming the beads as they swept past plastic models of the fish.
This is supposed to prevent good fortune from being swept out of the family.
The small drudge before the grate swept the hearth once and then swept it again. A Little Princess
September 5, 186 --- i got up erly this morning befoar father went to Boston and took cair of Nellie and swept out the stable and luged in the water and split a lot of wood and blacked fathers boots and set up and had breckfast with him. i was hoaping he wood let me go out of the yard. but he dident say nothing about that but did say i had got to get up evry morning befoar he goes away and do my chores i done them so well this morning. i thougt that was a prety mean thing for him to do. i wished Brite and Fair
There was a spasmic hush as he swept out of the room. Times, Sunday Times
Below these, thousands of tiny fry with bulbous blue eyes were swept aside as we finned on deeper into the rocky slit.
Her new show dog swept all championships
Another barge swept past, downstream. IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
He let himself be swept away by the ecstasy of pure computation. THE BROKEN GOD
As the rains crashed down, ferocious torrents swept along swollen rivers and through narrow gorges. Times, Sunday Times
Vast clouds of volcanic dust were shot into the stratosphere and swept around the globe. Times, Sunday Times
Again, the continued burghership of the newcomers was made to depend upon the resolution of the first Raad, so that should the mining members propose any measure of reform, not only their Bill but they also might be swept out of the house by a Boer majority. The Great Boer War
He lay down on his pallet still pondering, but the exhaustion from his long vigil the previous day swept him off almost at once into a dreamless, leaden sleep.
A blast of cold air swept through the hut.
Most dressed like holidaymakers to the Balearics and paid the price as downpours swept the city while temperatures fell to autumn levels. David Haye cut down to size by Wladimir Klitschko's ram-rod power | Paul Hayward
I was approaching a fairly sharp bend that swept downhill to the left.
Over the decades, as America evolved -- as slavery was prohibited and the Civil War was fought, and as the New Deal swept through the country -- our constitutional values, like a vine, wrapped around the knottiest ethnic and historical features of our landscape. Mike Signer: Vision of a State: Ultra-Federalism in Afghanistan
A wave of panic swept through the crowd and people started running.
Jennifer Lopez, in a strapless dress and an upswept hairstyle, waved from a balcony to admirers on the floor of Union Station at the Latino Inaugural Gala on Sunday night. Life of the Party: Latin Flair in Washington - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
Make an agreement with your partner to look for the signal after each time that the cards are swept away.
And although American and British ideas of constitutional government dominated the first stage of the French Revolution, the constitutionalists were soon swept aside by the dictatorship of the Jacobin club.
The wave simply swept through, destroying buildings along the way, sweeping people away and carrying them into the lagoons behind.
Floods that have also swept through the neighbouring countries of South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe have particularly hit Mozambique.
Below, the greens of windswept reeds and phragmites are intersected constantly by the twisting, interlocking Hackensack and Passaic Rivers, canal drainages, raised highways and railroad tracks.
The riotous crowd around him swept him along through arcane underground tunnels to a vaulted hall.
He kept trying to reach me and getting swept away. DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
Known for his quick starts, Lewis swept passed several cars in dramatic fashion at the green flag.
Desirée stifled a laugh as she swept the candles and bits of wax into a dustpan.
After all, balloons defy gravity and bob around in the air, just like windswept hair. The Sun
Bermuda's windswept northern coastline is protected from spray by non-native tamarisk trees.
The icy blast of polar weather that swept in from Canada saw planes grounded, ferries hit and cars slithering off roads. The Sun
The spritely 27-year-old was swept in as a last-minute understudy for the part when Clairemarie Osta came down with double tendinitis.
She says the couple'were engulfed and then swept away by a wave of fame and fortune. Times, Sunday Times
She bent over the table and swept her head over the mushrooms, giving a loud sniff.
I tell her I'd like some of the bulk trimmed out, and that I'm thinking of cutting some side-swept bangs to soften up my angular, Central European moonface. Model Project: Exposed
The craze has swept the country, with patriotic motorists showing their support for the team.
Any hopes of an improvement after the interval were quickly swept away. The Sun
He swept his paddle over the water, indicating the whole lot.
I provided little sunshine for the company as we swept indoors and barred all apertures against wind and rain.
African runners swept the medals in the distance events.
We stood outside to get windswept, missed the commentary and walked ashore to discover that Rottnest Island is overrun with quokkas - long tailed, short faced, round-eared marsupials that look disconcertingly like giant rats.
We stood on the windswept ridge and looked down at the valley below.
If the Braves had been swept in the Division Series, the perception might have been the same.
It's not entirely terrible that a lot of the past has been swept away. Times, Sunday Times
One end of the upper stone was fixed to a pivot and both stones were ‘dressed’ with small diagonal grooves which crossed each other at an angle as the upper stone swept across the lower in an arc.
But that was before "Cleggmania" swept the country. 'Cleggmania' Sweeps Britain, Liberal Democrats Surge In Polls
Old laws were swept away by the revolution.
Fifty years ago, an epidemic swept across this nation affecting millions of people and lasting for many years.
Her hair fell in tight blonde ringlets or was swept into an auburn chignon.
He swept his finger along the surface of the mantle and turned to her, grinning.
We advocate a harmonious society where corruption is swept away , and social mores are cleared.
Dust suppressants work by binding fine particles to larger particles that cannot be swept up in the backdraft of passing vehicles.
Her face is splattered with mud and her hair is tangled and windswept.
She saw the animals in the marshes, the herds of caribou that are, above all creatures, natives and habitants of the snow-swept mountains, the little, lesser hunters such as marten and mink and otter. The Snowshoe Trail
In 1093 the Moors of the Almoravide dynasty, under the Caliph Yusuf, swept irresistibly upwards into the Iberian Peninsula, recapturing The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series
He apologised for keeping me waiting (although it was our photographer who had delayed him) and swiftly swept away his papers to make way for me.
This was an unusual year for the Oscars: No single film dominated the field and swept the board.
A wave of euphoria swept across shops and workplaces as thousands of people got behind the lads in their bid for glory.
After saving the life of the President, two Secret Service agents find themselves abruptly transferred to Warehouse 13 – a massive, top-secret storage facility in windswept South Dakota that houses every strange artifact, mysterious relic, fantastical object and supernatural souvenir ever collected by the U.S. government. Sci-fi TV Preview: Warehouse 13 « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
Only seconds after removing the vent cover and ducking inside, nearly a dozen powerful beams of light swept the area in search of the intruder.
Yet from our plane window, we can see idyllic seaside villages seemingly impervious to the devastation that has swept the region.
The tide swept most of the boxes ashore along the beach near York Watergate. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
A sudden wind swept a pile of leaves in.
Her eyes dropped from the massive glass chandelier and swept around the apartment.
Snow, sleet and rain had swept Britain during the night.
The outermost layer of skin is swept clean of dead cells, which are vacuumed away.
He swept away much of the petty criminality that financed other illegal activities in the city.
She swept up the bottle, opened it, and poured the liquid into the kitchen sink, then switched on the garbage disposer and ground the root into nothingness. Root in a Bottle
How many streets will have to remain unswept, how many refuse bins left to overflow, and roadways left to crumble to help pay for this latest face-saving exercise.?
The Sequoia sempervirens, which is commonly called redwood, is distributed along the Coast Range, the trees thriving only when they are constantly swept by the sea fogs. History of California
A sense of danger swept her, a skittery sensation washing over her skin. ON A WILD NIGHT
The burning oil is believed to have swept into the area's storm water drains on Monday evening after a fire broke out at the Hursthill substation on Perth Road, near the dam.
Apparently he was swept out to sea by a strong backwash.
The walls should be whitewashed and all swept down and a few stones of lime slacked in every loose box and spread all over the shippon floor.
But at least he was high above the city, where chill winds swept the air clean and freshened the skin.
As the rains crashed down, ferocious torrents swept along swollen rivers and through narrow gorges. Times, Sunday Times
As a result, the junta's party swept to a predictably resounding victory. Times, Sunday Times
There are simply too many unanswered questions that can't be swept under the carpet, and it's not enough to glibly claim the legal system has already ruled on these claims.
He complained that the community flooded every time a typhoon or tropical storm swept through Taoyuan.
With blond hair swept high off his forehead, Delbert was the handsome rebel-without-a-cause.
She dreamed she heard the sound of a car, and saw lights as they swept across the window. LOST SUMMER
Every weekend thousands of thrifty Yorkshire folk trek to windswept fields to rummage through boxes of junk in the hope of finding something special.
Yorkshire is a land of many faces - from the plains and windswept moorlands to tranquil fishing villages.
You would have needed to be mightily stone-hearted not to have been swept along by the sense of occasion yesterday.
With a graceful gesture she swept the tresses framing her right cheek behind a delicate ear, revealing that the pinna contained two openings to the auditory canal, one in the center, and a smaller one near the upper edge. Star Trek: Voyager®: Full Circle
Asian airlines remain untouched by the deregulation that has swept America.
He lost his hold on the rock and was swept away by the tide.
With high-tech businesses this became much easier to achieve when technology mania swept through the stockmarkets and shares in such businesses were lapped up by private investors.
They were swept into a grand room full of rich clutter and fine carpets. Times, Sunday Times
Prepare to be swept away (geddit?). The Sun
The timberwork was sharp, the shutters were painted, the paths were neat and swept. Two For The Lions

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