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Example sentences for: swept

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Just as with actual costumes, the deep thought and careful work are undiscernible and no part of the appeal; everything must look easily conjured up and as easily swept away.
the Child Pornography Prevention Act are our home-grown fairy tales, ghostly adumbrations of the hysteria that swept over us in the eighties.
Captain Arthur Knowles and his First Mate Harold Sherman used a neat expression for the sky when a cool northwesterly breeze swept over the bay clearing out every vestige of cloud except those low to the southeast, where the warm water of the Gulf Stream condensed as a ragged range of billowy clouds.
I was waltzing around Seattle earlier this summer when the political candidates swept through The Unity Conference-the big confab of black, Latino, and Asian journalists.
Sometimes, when I read Fish (his frightening "Mission Impossible" essay, for example), I get swept up by his great gift, and am ready to move the family to the woods to avoid the end of the world.