Sweep

to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney

I will sweep it with the besom of destruction.

The wind sweeps across the plain.

The offended countess swept out of the ballroom.

[H]as the course of the argument so accustomed you to agreeing that you were swept by it into a ready assent?

Drifting thus, we made fast time down the bank through Cove Bay, and at 72 m.p.h. came sweeping round the curve past Girdleness light house, and so to the first sight of Aberdeen itself.

Everton took that disputed lead in a moment that caused anger to sweep around the Emirates.

The channel was swept twice before the battlefleet proceeded through it.

She swept the peelings off the table onto the floor.

The wind sweeps the snow from the hills.

The flooded river swept away the wooden dam.

In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.

Their long descending train, / With rubies edg'd and sapphires, swept the plain.

Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

And like a peacock sweep along his tail.

Deſcend ye nine! deſcend and ſing; / The breathing inſtruments inſpire, / VVake into voice each ſilent ſtring, / And ſvveep the ſounding lyre!

to sweep the bottom of a river with a net

to sweep the heavens with a telescope

O5-8 does an impressive job of controlling himself, keeping his attention focused on Marion. Clay doesn't fare so well, and quickly sweeps the whole room, even checking behind his back. Making an ass of himself, essentially. He finds nothing. He looks baffled.

Give the front steps a quick sweep to get rid of those fallen leaves.

He was, perhaps, the English railwayman's conception of the French mécanicien - short and broad, black as a sweep even before we left Calais (but no blacker than I was on arrival at Paris) and wearing goggles and his uniform cap back to front.

Bradman attempted a sweep, but in fact top edged the ball to the wicket keeper

Jim will win fifty dollars in the office sweep if Japan wins the World Cup.

The MiG-17's inner wing has 45 degrees of sweep.

the sweep of an epidemic disease

the sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye

the road which makes a small sweep

I intend to muffle the sweeps and row the schooner up to the head of the creek there, from which point we can command the pile of sandal-wood with our gun.

I am primarily a sweep rower.

Octopus clambered about from hole to hole and startled sweep blurred away as we passed.

The Himalaya guards the southern rim of the plateau in one continuous sweep of 2250 km, each end marked by a massive mountain, Nanga Parbat on the Indus in the west and Namjagbarwa at the great bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo in the east.

A proposal to redistribute the diaries used in sweeps to provide a 4-week "buyer report" earlier than the normal November sweep followed by three quarterly reports was not welcomed […]