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Example sentences for: sweep
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Encouraged, we proceed to a change of subject: A new broom sweeps clean (F) Il n'est rien de tel que balai neuf There is nothing like a new broom, or Un balai neuf nettoie toujours bien A new broom always cleans well; (G) Neue Besen kehren gut New brooms sweep well; (R) \?\ A new broom sweeps cleanly; (S) Escoba nueva barre bien A new broom sweeps well.
How will it sweep away ignorance about racial hatred or empower people to take control of their lives?
The LAT emphasizes that the campaign has "no logical political objective," but the WP suggests militia leaders may be trying to sweep out an anti-independence sector in the west.
The stories dominating the European press Wednesday were: in France, the opening of the manslaughter trial of three prominent French politicians for the state's distribution of HIV-tainted blood; in Germany, the Christian Democrat Party's sweep to power in the state of Hesse using an anti-immigrant election strategy; in Italy, the government's decision to regularize some 250,000 illegal immigrants from outside the European Union; and in Britain, no particular story, though the Daily Telegraph led its front page with the opening of the country's first ever war crimes trial--that of Anthony Sawoniuk, a 77-year-old former Belorussian accused of leading "search and kill" squads to hunt down Jews who had escaped a massacre during the Nazi wartime occupation of Belarus.
I was allowed to waveAway the tray of nougat--or rather, the flies on it.Sipping, I waited for a word, a sign from the saint.I'd wanted to lie, as if underground, and watch Him dig up the sky, or stand at a riverbankAnd have the water sweep off my presumptions,Have him blow light into my changeling bones.I wanted to feel the stalk rise and the blade fall.I wanted my life's arithmetic glazed and fired.I wanted the hush, the wingstroke, the shudder.
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