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Example sentences for: sweep

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Yesterday, the NYT led with a special report alleging that the Chinese made a leap in their nuclear capability using secrets stolen from Los Alamos and that the White House attempted to sweep the issue under the rug to avoid disturbing its "strategic partnership" with China.
Clinton credited the Republican sweep of Tuesday's election to 1) a good economy and 2) the abundance of Republican incumbents.
But the German candidate who'd been slated to run decided in the face of a looming Republican sweep that he'd like to be postmaster, so Yates, who is Jewish, got his chance.
Scholarly reviewers honor it as "an enduring masterpiece that immediately catches up readers in its transpersonal force and sweep" (Steven Marcus, the New York Times Book Review ).
We hear the scrape of a sword as it's unsheathed and barely see it sweep across the frame and pop the victim's noggin into the air--so fast that the head seems to have been shocked off its torso.