Words similar to sweep

Example sentences for: sweep

How can you use “sweep” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Its perianth is reflexed, meaning that the petals sweep back from the cup and twist a little, so that the flower looks as if it's being blown by a gentle wind.
The rugged mountains of the Serra de Tramuntana sweep down to the sea so steeply here that there are few points of access and only one harbor and port of any size along the coast.
But the newest and most radical trends in Serbian sweep through the fast-spoken slang of Serbia's first generation of youngsters--those who have come of age since the breakup of the former Yugoslavia.
But perhaps after a hundred years of skirts that liberate and expose, women will again feel the desire for fullness, drag, and bulk in their skirts; for the chance to swish, trail, and sweep; to swing heavy fabric from the hips; maybe even to lift heavy folds in front of the belly--or simply to have another way of muffling unsatisfactory legs with something that isn't pants.
The second item, by contrast, describes the results of the U.S. government's general indifference to the anti-competitive implications of the huge wave of mergers that continues to sweep across every sector of the U.S. economy.