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194 examples of Sweep in a sentence

He was busted in a drug sweep.
We then talked about her coming to my lab and us performing a radio sweep of her car, but I wasn't even sure that would work, given that some of these devices are configured to only transmit when they're inside safe zones or when the car is moving.
Sophisticated communications sweep.
You can list what you don't like about them, but then you sweep that aside and focus on what you do.
And the new wave of innovation which is beginning to sweep through industry is no different.
We can view not only the vast sweep of nature, but the restless movement of humanity.
It looked really helpless, like you just wanted to sweep it up into your arms and reassure it.
It's also about how appearances deceive, how our culture can sweep us along into doing and saying things we didn't intend or don't like, and Armantrout's style is trying to help us stop or slow down.
As a journalist in Havana, I watched the first 97 Nicaraguans arrive in March 1999, settling into dorms barely refurbished and helping their professors not only sweep out the classrooms but move in the desks and the chairs and the microscopes.
So, businesses who catch Johns buying sex, using company-based equipment or company resources, but cut them a break or sweep it under the rug and don't fire them, are complicit in fueling demand.
And our brain has come to us through the enormity of the deep sweep of time.
And in a way, it's all thanks to him, because he challenged known facts, and with a sweep of his hand, got rid of the theoretical beliefs and all the mental limits that we like to impose on ourselves.
With sufficient gene blockers, we can address many different kinds of mutations, allowing the chance to sweep out tumors, without leaving behind any bad guys.
So they do what they do in nature when they're looking for something: sweep things out of the way with their beak.
They sent dogs trained to smell explosives to sweep the area I'd been in.
So the challenge for the SDGs is to try and sweep all these dots across to the right, to 100 by 2030.
At the same time, her arms sweep open to help her keep her balance.
Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
James Nachtwey, who was honored at last year's TED, took a look at the sweep of the medical system that is utilized to handle the American wounded coming out of Iraq.
They're the things you would expect: mop the floors, sweep them, empty the trash, restock the cabinets.
The real key observation he made is that a free-flying wing can sweep through more sky and generate more power in a unit of time than a fixed-wing turbine.
And it's an idea that I think is very prevalent at these TED Talks, the idea that we can invent our way out of a profound economic and energy crisis, that a move to a knowledge economy can somehow neatly sidestep those energy constraints, the idea that we'll discover some fabulous new source of energy that will mean we can sweep all concerns about energy security to one side, the idea that we can step off neatly onto a completely renewable world.
So it's not about devaluing, or negating, these more trying times as something we want to avoid or sweep under the rug, but instead to find those opportunities wrapped in the adversity.
I wanted to focus on activities that would help to alleviate poverty, fight disease, combat climate change, bridge the religious, racial and other divides that torment the world, but to do it in a way that would either use whatever particular skills we could put together in our group to change the way some public good function was performed so that it would sweep across the world more.
Week after week these women just sweep all the men of their feet.
Ugo Filippini's robust, rousing score has a nifty majestic sweep to it.
After the first shock of realizing this is not like any other movie you have seen since Bringing Up Baby you have to let it sweep you along and run with it.
Ford uses a relatively small cast, but directs them and photographs them with a verve and a sweep of epic proportions.
All shots are close up so we never see a broad sweep of anything.
If the first one goes down in history as a débutant's clean sweep the latter will definitely carve a special place as a "mature" film.
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