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Example sentences for: sweep

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

The healer will sweep the patient with a little broom made of herbs, such as sage, rosemary, and rue, believed to be effective in eliminating evil influences.
In a carnivalesque reassigning of roles, he hired a model to sweep away the flies from the decaying meat.
In the first three cases were diamond brooches made to adorn the spacious dresses of the belle époque , gleaming leaf-and-flower compositions that could sweep across a whole décolletage from shoulder to shoulder, or smaller ornaments festooned with graceful diamond swags and dripping with pendant diamond drops.
Everything he says--Hillary's a lesbian, there are seven stages to the television age and he's got them all figured out, the Republicans are going to sweep the November elections--is clever and provocative.
Peripheral fibers seldom sweep a full 360 degrees around a given structure before they either encounter another structure and supercoil pulling the two together or simply supercoil themselves onto the ball surface.