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Sentence Examples New brooms tend to sweep clean, and new regime could spur Liverpool's players on to achieving what their forefathers did. As the clock-hands sweep into the witching hour, on October 30, a new season of gab and glitter will open at the Varscona Theatre. During the sweep, Company A destroyed nearly 3,000 mortar and recoilless rifle rounds and searched dozens of caves and bunkers. One reason why the new rules are so radical is that they sweep away all the previous ones. The latter had pledged to sweep all traces of Zionism, imperialism and the forces of reaction in the Arab world. Still, I wouldn't like to see it sweep through the Oscars just because Academy voters are blinded by its razzle-dazzle. If civilisation lay in ruins, then there was a momentous opportunity to sweep away this heap of broken images and start afresh. A distant relative of the whippoorwill, the potoo feeds mainly at night, opening its short, curved bill very wide to sweep up flying insects. On 18 February 1857 the souls of dead Xhosa warriors would sweep in from the Indian Ocean and sweep the hated British into the sea, she said. 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. It is a movie so jacked up on its own hedonistic excess that it'll sweep viewers along on its wild ride without really providing much to chew on. A stroll through the gardens, past the pools and down a short flight of steps brought me to a great sweep of dark golden beach. The party's modernising zeal is set to sweep away Britain's archaic alcohol restrictions. The eyes need one to two seconds for accommodation before they can focus, so a continuous sweep is useless for identifying targets. Johnny waved the question aside with a graceful sweep of his hand, as though all was forgiven. A high resolution camera will also sweep the surface, resolving details as small as two metres across. A clean sweep of domestic cups and two European trophies should have been followed by a Premiership title. Add a smoulder of darker shadow to the outer area of the eyelid and sweep a little below the lower lash line as well. The landlocked country is dominated by the rugged Hindu Kush mountains that sweep from the west to the east. More alarmingly, a broader historical sweep suggests that commodities are in a longer-term upward trend. Show More Sentences Popular and prize-winning, these angst-ridden accounts of the aspiring outsider seem to sweep the bestseller stakes. You see her intermittently through the windshield, as the wipers sweep back and forth, brushing the rain aside. He and his son, James, mechanically sweep the ripe nuts that have fallen to the orchard floor into windrows. I was windbound on the lengthy sweep of a beach at Lumsden for six days due to strong, gusting, offshore winds. It would be foolish to expect democracy to sweep across the Middle East, transforming the political landscape in a matter of years. Women in satin dresses display a plucky determination as well as lush beauty, as men sweep them off their feet. Jim made another sweep of the room, opening the drawers on the writing desk. It's no use waiting for a knight in shining armour to ride in and sweep you off your feet. The winds of change blowing through Cairo could sweep away quite a few regimes in the region. Along the lakefront a curving sweep of barberry and daylilies terminated at gazebos overarched by old apple and willow trees. The whole chivalry thing was probably some ploy to catch unsuspecting girls off guard only to sweep them off their feet and then discard them later. But few people realize how long it will take before these directors get up to speed, change a corporate culture, and, if necessary, sweep out the laggards. The broad sweep of The Sleepwalkers seems at first to belie its central thesis. All women really want is a man to sweep them off their feet. The horizontal shaft with windsails was not set at a true 90 degree angle but approximately 80 degrees making it possible for the said sweep to clear the turret completely. We could follow the entire sweep of the river, from the lower meanders upwards to the source of the tiny stream high in the glaciated peaks of the cordillera. That explains this lovely lass following you, but then again, I don't think you need to pull them out of the icy sea to sweep them off their feet. The days are long past when we sent children up chimneys to sweep them. The warrant officer used a spare boat to recover the sweep in the darkness, battling against a six knot tidal stream in waters not yet cleared of mines. This vast sweep of subject-matter has a grand effect of countering any tendency to polemic or sectarianism. Show More Sentences The result will force Romney to settle for a crushing win on his native turf, rather than a clean sweep. In the long sweep of LGBT equality, it could have stood as a seminal moment. There was a shelf of rock jutting out from the cliff and extending all along the sweep of the bay, providing a broken highway three to five yards wide. They then helped sweep the floor, feed the fish, give the dogs treats, and even water the garden with leftover puddles from the backyard wading pool. The centennial West line, which would be about the same size, would sweep west from Oklahoma towards California. Out of the corners come the shadowy shapes of the janitors, to sweep the pamphlets, trinkets, and candy wrappers from the floors and tables of the rapidly emptying room. It covers a broad sweep of the events, personalities, and forces that have shaped this vacationland. In group two, Tritoma narrowed the gap from leaders Waxflower following a 4-0 sweep of Carnation. Other features include ball-bearing hinges, a full-perimeter weather strip, a concealed double-seal bottom sweep, and an aluminum threshold. With each sweep of the witch's broom, the ground grew more green and fertile. Fillies sweep the board in the Prix Morny at Deauville, with Broadway Dancer beating Janthina by six lengths. The graph jags like a Toblerone, stabbing the heights in times of prosperity and the new-broom sweep of incoming governments. He forged forward against the current, even as it tried to sweep him down river. Our bank does a nightly sweep of accounts, to adjust the float so we stay within our reserves limit. Winslow started on his dulciloquy. With an autocratic, barely perceptible sweep of the hand, the general cut him short. He had invited Destiny to sweep him up in her reaping, by placing himself in the ambit of her scythe. Antimonarchical sentiment threatened to sweep away the last vestige of royal prerogative. The areal sweep efficiency EA is defined as the fraction of the total flood pattern that is contacted by the displacing fluid. As he swept out of the room with a bellying sweep of his gown and a toss of his silver hair, his old heart was beating madly. So on the first play, I asked the quarterback to call my number on an end sweep. Show More Sentences In November 1928, as the beneficiaries of this revulsion, the Liberals made a clean sweep of every seat on the borough council. He achieved a clean sweep winning four professional majors in a span of 294 days. The Bavarian felt a mad wave of desire for her sweep over him. What scheme wouldn't he compass to mould that girl to his wishes. On highways such as I190 and I290 a conga line lets plows make a clean sweep from curbline to curbline on one pass he said. He had no hair on the front of his head at all so that the sweep of bone skin, daunting in its fungoid pallor, came right over above his ears. I always supposed he was called Goog because the tiny flattened ears did nothing to interrupt the goog-like sweep from crown to jaw. Violent and sudden storms often sweep the surface, due to large transient temperature differences and a long reach of wind. From Reading heading west, the line would curve in a northerly sweep back to Bath. The England that emerged from the Conquest was a decidedly different place, but one that had been opened up to the sweep of outside influences. The bow and stroke positions have a set of sculling riggers and two and three have a sweep set. An 'oar' is often referred to as a blade in the case of sweep oar rowing and as a scull in the case of sculling. A sculling oar is shorter and has a smaller blade area than the equivalent sweep oar. North Atlantic Deep Water forms when the relatively warm and salty North Atlantic Ocean cools as cold winds from northern Canada sweep over it. The skip evaluates the path of the stone and calls to the sweepers to sweep as necessary to maintain the intended track. Once the leading edge of a team stone crosses the tee line only one player may sweep it. Additionally, when a stone crosses the tee line, one player from the other team is allowed to sweep it. In a single sweep with the sword called Caledfwlch, Llenlleawg the Irishman kills off Diwrnach and all his men. In basket stars, the arms are used to rhythmically sweep food to the mouth. They remain in still waters until the tide rises, ascending and allowing it to sweep them back into the bay. Having their own navy, the Hansa were able to sweep the Baltic Sea free of pirates. Show More Sentences Tugs Patapsco and Patuxent towed Admiralty wooden sailing smacks Red Rose and Red Fern out to conduct the first trial sweep in December. After the first sweep took two days to clear 221 mines, Strauss requested more ships in the hope of clearing the mine barrage that summer. The United States Navy even used specialized Mechanized Landing Craft to sweep shallow harbors in and around North Korea. They are much harder to detect and sweep, and can carry a much larger warhead than a moored mine. If a contact sweep hits a mine, the wire of the sweep rubs against the mooring wire until it is cut. The distance sweep mimics the sound and magnetism of a ship and is pulled behind the sweeper. Modern influence mines are designed to discriminate against false inputs and are therefore much harder to sweep. These techniques are the only publicly known to be employed way to sweep pressure mines. It alone could survey the full sweep of galactic history and experience the development of knowledge on a panstellar scale. Mop heads attached to the wooden plank would sweep across the sea floor and release organisms from the ocean bottom to be caught in the nets. Having their own navy the Hansa were able to sweep the Baltic Sea free of pirates. Heading north, Cabral's armada takes a wide sweep to avoid Calicut, and pays a quick visit to Cannanore. Everton took that disputed lead in a moment that caused anger to sweep around the Emirates. Jim will win fifty dollars in the office sweep if Japan wins the World Cup. Octopus clambered about from hole to hole and startled sweep blurred away as we passed. The Bill is going to apply to a much wider group of people and I think it will sweep an awful lot of things under the carpet. A strong undertow may sweep a returning swimmer off their feet but it does not carry them far from the shore. In the league of best and worst kissers, the Brits sweep the board with nearly half of the vote for great kissing. Then dip a clean mascara wand or cotton swab into some baby powder and sweep it along the underside of the lashes. The shadows of the chestnut trees sweep wetly through the afternoon. Show More Sentences And Fitzgerald chose the well-beaten Kingsmark of the two Robert Ogden-owned runners in the Whitbread Gold Cup, and had to watch Ad Hoc sweep to victory in the same colours. From the front a gravelled parking sweep with stone steps runs down to the lawns dotted with a variety of mature trees and shrubs including a magnificent wellingtonia. The woman weighs anchor with the dog, which learns to cling to the deck with toenails and teeth, so a fierce gust or extra wild wave doesn't sweep him away. Scott Russell, who had sewn up the Yokohama 750cc Supersport championship earlier in the year, completed a clean sweep of the series races with his ninth victory in Miami. I used a whisk to sweep the counter, then a push-broom for the floor. His cheeks were wrinkled like a last year's apple, but his sweep of shoulder, and bony, corded hands, told of a strength which was unsapped by age. Give the front steps a quick sweep to get rid of those fallen leaves. The king is in love with a beautiful shepherdess in a painting on his wall, but she herself is in love with the handsome chimney sweep in the painting beside her. This beach suffers from a riptide that can easily sweep you out to sea. He claims that on one occasion he was nearly crushed by the machine and that, despite the injuries to his head, he was beaten for not completing the sweep in a single turn. The planets continued to sweep up, or eject, the remaining matter during a period of intense bombardment, evidenced by the many impact craters on the Moon. At transonic speeds, near the speed of sound, it helps to sweep the wing backward or forwards to reduce drag from supersonic shock waves as they begin to form. In other words, the waves sweep sediment together from both sides. When the wire of a mine sweep hits the mine, it sinks, letting the sweep wire drag along the anchoring wire of the mine until the sweep hits the mine. The tails of grazing animals, such as horses, are used both to sweep away insects and positioned or moved in ways that indicate the animal's physical or emotional state. The River Afan commences the wide sweep of Swansea Bay, which from Port Talbot arcs around taking in Baglan Bay, Briton Ferry, Swansea and ending in Mumbles. One of the basic technical aspects of curling is knowing when to sweep. Ergometers do not simulate the lateral balance challenges, the exact resistance of water, or the exact motions of true rowing including the sweep of the oar handles. Boaz Lalang led a Kenyan clean sweep in the men's 800m final. Webb played an advantage that enabled Cazorla to supply a low cross from the left for Giroud to sweep home first time, despite Gallas and Vertonghen being in close attendance. Show More Sentences The riggers in sculling apply the forces symmetrically to each side of the boat, whereas in sweep oared racing these forces are staggered alternately along the boat. This in turn can enable reasonably sized minorities to achieve some representation, as it becomes impossible for a simple plurality to sweep every seat. So go with me on a short timed, multi-millioned mile journey with the earth as it spins neatly on its axis and revolves lazily in its elliptical sweep about the Sun. To the south the view is dominated by Edinburgh Castle, built high on the castle rock, and the long sweep of the Old Town descending towards Holyrood Palace. Thanks to certain alchemic pens, which have touched even garbage to gold-paper, murder has been as fine, and withal as jocund among us, as a May-day sweep. Paxton also designed machines to sweep the floors at the end of each day, but in practice, it was found that the trailing skirts of the female visitors did the job perfectly. New for this season are golden, tiger, blue and rainbow trout marked with special sweep tags and stocked in Fontburn, Derwent, Grassholme and Scaling. This wind-borne refuse adds to the work of tidying up after storms, but gardeners should do more than just sweep up the mess after the winter gales. Examples from Classical Literature From this position he commanded with his rifle the sweep of hillside all around the cabin. The apophyge is the inverted cavetto or concave sweep, on the upper edge of which the diminishing shaft rests. Dorcas had no dreams so happy that such an avalanche could not sweep them aside. We two will pull the state in pieces, and sweep away the laws as with a besom. The billow and the wind And the still waters will sweep us away Mercilessly! Lieutenant Lucas, who commanded them, told off half his company to sweep the sangar, and then the remainder dashed at it. What do you do with the papers and stuff you sweep up of a morning, Bucephalus? The sugar-loaf hills, with their castellated escarpments, go marching by with stately sweep. Very rarely is there a spate, an upheaval, and a cataclysmal sweep that bursts the ice and ends its reign in an hour or two. The chimney sweep and the shepherdess looked most piteously at the old mandarin. A child of six might be worked for fourteen hours a day in a mine, as a chimney sweep, at a potter's oven, or in a cotton mill. Word of the impending event went from cabin to cabin, and Mr. Mahony, the chimney sweep, put his head out of his door. It was used by the chimney sweep alone, but Caleb had another use for it now. After he relinquished the army, he became a chimney sweep, in which capacity he was constantly engaged for nearly twenty years. Before the law the chimney sweep and the peer have exactly the same standing. Our soldiers have been making a clean sweep of the hogs, sheep, and poultry on the route. Above all, she must at once and for ever make a clean sweep of all her old friends. A clean sweep was made, and made with a decision and unanimity that was incredible. But I stayed not to look at these, nor at the long sweep of the enclosure, crenellated and pavilioned. When Ah starts makin' up de berths you kin sweep out de cah an' 'cumulate de sheets an' pillow cases. Show More Sentences The posters, maculated with filth, garnished like tapestry the sweep of the curbstone. Like lightning Ferry's sword was out, but he only gave it a deferential sweep. I lunged at the first with my blade, but with a sweep of his own he drave it out of my hand. Then the cavalcade would sweep on its way and the street be duller than before. Many of these tools vary only in size and sweep of cutting edge. In fact, there was a clean sweep of all the Venetians in Florence. Simply spray it on with an atomizer and sweep with a suction hose. The instructions were to make a clean sweep as the line advanced. With one powerful sweep I hit one of the barracuda on the head. The cold, steely, darkling sweep of desert had been transformed. The ground dips down to the fort there, and we had a clean sweep. I 'll have an apron, with a bib to it, like Polly's, and a feather duster, and sweep the stairs, maybe, with my head tied up, like Katy. Stan laid over and made a sweep, ducking in and out of the flak. We'll make a clean sweep of all those humbugging Deputies and Ministers! As new adulterant trends sweep through the testing pool, rely on Thermo Scientific Detect line of specimen validity tests. After the grains are threshed out pull off the hardware cloth, sweep the grains up, and winnow. I have never had to sweep out the schoolhouse since the time you know of. To west and south sweep the Maritime Alps and the Apennines. One of the fierce summer storms which sometimes sweep over the gulf was ravaging the sea. The cavalcade, following the sweep of the drive, quickly turned the angle of the house, and I lost sight of it. Show More Sentences Chimneys are to be built large enough to admit a chimney sweep. When a boy he ran away from home, and became a chimney sweep. Vast are its possibilities and vaster still its sweep of conceivability. Shrieking and crashing, the vulture-forces of destruction sweep upon it. She arose, and with a grand sweep of her drapery, moved toward the door. To get the lawn ready for spring, rake up any dead leaves and sweep any worm casts with besom. If I hoped to serve my country there and sweep the Confederate cruisers from the Adriatic, I am afraid my prime intent was to add to her literature and to my own credit. You were to have no capital punishment, but were first to sweep off the face of the earth all legislators, jurists, and judges, who were of the contrary opinion. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of sweep? Words that rhyme with sweep What is the past tense of sweep? What is the plural of sweep? What is the adverb for sweep? What is the adjective for sweep? What is the noun for sweep? Translations for sweep Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Swedophile Swedish Swedes swedes Swedenborgian Sweden sweep away sweeper sweepers sweeping sweepingly sweeping measures 5-letter Words Starting With s sw swe swee