Sweeping

//ˈswiːpɪŋ//

"Sweeping" in a Sentence (19 examples)

A banking scandal is sweeping across Capitol Hill.

Everybody is calling for sweeping reforms.

The party won a sweeping victory at the general election.

His music is sweeping the whole country.

My father is sweeping the garage.

Sweeping the room is my daughter's job.

Moreover, the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam.

I see her sweeping the room.

Kids these days have no imagination whatsoever. Only a nationwide revolution and sweeping economic reform will bring the hoop and stick back into vogue.

Her grandfather extrapolated an isolated incident at a grocery store into a series of sweeping, unflattering generalizations about every Mexican on earth.

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The sidewalk needed a sweeping every morning.

Sweeping took all morning.

The sidewalk needed sweeping every morning.

The government will bring in sweeping changes to the income tax system.

He loves making sweeping statements without the slightest evidence.

We steamed easily across the first part of the Tay Bridge, and then after passing over the long spans in mid-stream we coasted smoothly down the 1 in 114 gradient, and around the sweeping curve through Esplanade Station.

By the time politicians in several cities backed down on Tuesday and announced that they would cut or consider reducing fares, the demonstrations had already morphed into a more sweeping social protest, with marchers waving banners carrying slogans like “The people have awakened.”

The thing is, we've even had formal confirmation from Government itself that the crucial research required to make such sweeping claims hasn't been done!

He claimed a sweeping victory.

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