SWEEP in a Sentence

Learn SWEEP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

152 example sentences for SWEEP, such as:

1. Don't forget to sweep under the beds.
2. He was sweeping up leaves in his garden.
3. Security forces were given sweeping powers to search homes.
4. He is making sweeping generalisations to get his point across.
5. The owner of the store was sweeping his floor when I walked in.

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 Meanings and Examples of SWEEP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sweep
 n.  movement in an arc; clean with a broom; wide scope; winning all
Classic Sentence: (136 in 10 pages)
1  There were harsh lines of fatigue and urgency in his face but his tattered gray hat was off with a sweep.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
2  With the clearing of her vision the sweep of peril had extended, and she saw that the post of danger was no longer at Dorset's side.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
3  From the cliffs across the river Carol and Kennicott looked back at St. Paul on its hills; an imperial sweep from the dome of the cathedral to the dome of the state capitol.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  It had a clean sweep of clapboards, a solid squareness, a small tower, and a large screened porch.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  Sides, the brick house was too big for me to sweep, and it was way out, and it's nice to be living down here among folks.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  She was conscious of an unbroken sweep of land to the Rockies, to Alaska, a dominion which will rise to unexampled greatness when other empires have grown senile.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
7  Nor, will the tragic dramatist who would depict mortal indomitableness in its fullest sweep and direct swing, ever forget a hint, incidentally so important in his art, as the one now alluded to.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder.
8  The glittering mouth yawned beneath the boat like an open-doored marble tomb; and giving one sidelong sweep with his steering oar, Ahab whirled the craft aside from this tremendous apparition.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
9  It was too dark in these storage places to see well, but a man could run his hand over these piles of meat and sweep off handfuls of the dried dung of rats.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
10  He had, of course, dreamed of battles all his life--of vague and bloody conflicts that had thrilled him with their sweep and fire.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
11  She could reach a flitch of bacon or haul a tub of oil with one sweep of her arm in the shop.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
12  That's a man with a broom to sweep paths for the fine ladies' flounces.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
13  He sat looking at the greenish sweep of the riding downwards, a clear way through the bracken and oaks.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
14  Then he came round the great trees at the top of the knoll, on to the drive, which made a grand sweep round a lozenge of grass in front of the entrance.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
15  The reproof of an immediate conclusion of everything, the sweep of every preparation, would be sufficient.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  As we travel south, the countryside begins to undulate as the rolling hills sweep down to the riverbanks.
2  Don't forget to sweep under the beds.
3  It is highly important that we combine revolutionary sweep with practicalness.
4  Newspaper editorials spoke of the need to sweep away corruption.
5  The Republican sweep is good news for Afghanistan, said Nader Nadery, analyst and director of Human Rights Commission of Afghanistan.
6  The owner of the store was sweeping his floor when I walked in.
7  He was sweeping up leaves in his garden.
8  Soccer fever has been sweeping the nation as they prepare for the World Cup.
9  He is making sweeping generalisations to get his point across.
10  Security forces were given sweeping powers to search homes.
11  The missile-reduction treaty makes sweeping cuts, but the arms race isn't over by a long shot.
12  The house was all built to the highest level of quality by the best craftsmen, only nobody in town could build the sweeping banister for that grand staircase.
13  His exaltation had but one alloy, and that record in sand was fast washing out, under the waves of happiness that were sweeping over it now.
14  His exaltation had but one alloy -- the memory of his humiliation in this angel's garden -- and that record in sand was fast washing out, under the waves of happiness that were sweeping over it now.
15  His authority, at home and abroad, has been boosted by his sweeping victory in this month's election.