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Example sentences for: sweeping

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Except on official occasions, the guards in appropriately British uniforms will usually let you drive or walk in to admire the sweeping stretch of lawns and gardens — look for the governor’s toboggan slide and skating rink.
Under pressure from the poorer classes, who did not want the Revolution appropriated for the exclusive benefit of the bourgeoisie, the Jacobin-led revolutionary committee ordered sweeping measures of economic and social reform, which were accompanied by a wave of mass executions, the Terror, aimed at moderates as well as aristocrats.
Our mandate was sweeping.
The mucous membrane barrier traps microorganisms, and the cilia present on the epithelial cells assist in sweeping the microbes towards the external openings of the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts.
The Los Angeles Times puts that story on Page 3 of its business section and goes instead with the announcement of a sweeping free-trade agreement between Mexico and the European Union that would (if given final approval by the participating governments) eliminate most trade barriers between the two by 2007, a development that, the paper observes, should help Mexico expand its already booming exports and reduce its economic dependence on the U.S.