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Example sentences for: swept

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Unlike Soundscan, which swept swiftly through the music business after it was introduced, when Bookscan was unveiled last year, it was dismissed by the American Association of Publishers, whose official line on it was that it was too expensive.
the Child Pornography Prevention Act are our home-grown fairy tales, ghostly adumbrations of the hysteria that swept over us in the eighties.
Massive tidal waves swept over Crete, and other parts of the Mediterranean, smashing buildings and drowning many thousands of people.
Big Mac wrappers, half-full Slurpee drink cups and french fry bags have to be constantly swept out of sight."
When Baltus Van Tassel (Michael Gambon), the town's richest citizen, intones the story of the Hessian who lopped the heads off revolutionaries for sheer love of butchery, the flashback is mythic in its ghastliness: Christopher Walken--his hair swept up, with boiled eggs for eyes and teeth like sharp spikes--wheels, hacks, impales, and drenches the snow with gore.