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Example sentences for: swept

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The longer, slower way back downhill meanders through the upmarket shopping area of Chiado, now totally rebuilt after a 1988 fire that swept through the district.
I almost became a born-again Christian but I was swept away by the tithe.
A 95 mph wind yesterday swept through the Champs-Élysées, the rest of northern France, and parts of Switzerland and Germany, according to a NYT front-pager.
Certainly, though, most of these freaks will be dislodged and swept away by the passage of time while those already rooted in the French language, like smoking and week-end, have become naturalized and no longer jar in the Gallic ear.
I occasionally still see some of these people--two have gotten clean, and two live on and deteriorate, but the other half-dozen faded from view, three because they died, and two of those in circumstances directly related to the more dangerous, harder-assed neighborhoods into which they were swept by Giuliani's quality-of-life campaign, one because he was set on fire.