SWEEPING in a Sentence

Learn SWEEPING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

152 example sentences for SWEEPING, such as:

1. Don't forget to sweep under the beds.
2. He was sweeping up leaves in his garden.
3. Security forces were given sweeping powers to search homes.
4. He is making sweeping generalisations to get his point across.
5. The owner of the store was sweeping his floor when I walked in.

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 Meanings and Examples of SWEEPING
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sweeping
 a.  extensive; having wide-ranging influence or effect:
Classic Sentence: (136 in 10 pages)
1  Their leisured world had been turned topsy-turvy, and their pleadings, prayers and advice availed nothing against the powerful forces sweeping them along.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  "No," said Rhett clearly, his eyes sweeping the crowd carelessly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  The tide of the Confederacy's fortune was running strong and full now, sweeping the people jubilantly along on its flood.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  "Quick, Melly," cried Scarlett, her heart in her throat, exasperation sweeping her as she saw that Melly's hands were shaking so that it was impossible for her to read.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  "Good evening," he said, in his drawling voice, as he removed his hat with a sweeping gesture.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  The flames raced ever beyond her, toward the walls of the covered runway, fiery snakes that writhed and leaped and, exhaustion sweeping her, she knew that it was hopeless.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
7  Heartbreak and weariness sweeping over her, she dropped her head in her hands and cried.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
8  She was beyond caring who saw her, beyond anything except a fiery desire to kill him, but dizziness was sweeping her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
9  The house was high from the ground, built over a large cellar, and the long sweeping flight of stairs which reached it made it look slightly ridiculous.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
10  The old nightmare feeling was sweeping her, stronger than ever, and her heart began to race.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
11  Well,' he says, 'I've been looking for a man so useful sweeping floors that I could pay him four dollars a day.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
12  Terrified, pallid, noiseless in stocking feet, he did the kitchen work and the sweeping, his big red hands awkwardly careful.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  The prodigious strain upon the main-sail had parted the weather-sheet, and the tremendous boom was now flying from side to side, completely sweeping the entire after part of the deck.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
14  And then it was, that suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw beneath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab's leg, as a mower a blade of grass in the field.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
15  "Aye, aye, sir," cheerily cried little King-Post, sweeping round his great steering oar.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  The owner of the store was sweeping his floor when I walked in.
2  He was sweeping up leaves in his garden.
3  Soccer fever has been sweeping the nation as they prepare for the World Cup.
4  He is making sweeping generalisations to get his point across.
5  Security forces were given sweeping powers to search homes.
6  The missile-reduction treaty makes sweeping cuts, but the arms race isn't over by a long shot.
7  The house was all built to the highest level of quality by the best craftsmen, only nobody in town could build the sweeping banister for that grand staircase.
8  His exaltation had but one alloy, and that record in sand was fast washing out, under the waves of happiness that were sweeping over it now.
9  His exaltation had but one alloy -- the memory of his humiliation in this angel's garden -- and that record in sand was fast washing out, under the waves of happiness that were sweeping over it now.
10  His authority, at home and abroad, has been boosted by his sweeping victory in this month's election.
11  Melrose said his supply went dry Saturday after doling out 10 times the normal number of flu shots to victims of the coughing—sneezing-head-feverish epidemic sweeping the nation.
12  As we travel south, the countryside begins to undulate as the rolling hills sweep down to the riverbanks.
13  Don't forget to sweep under the beds.
14  It is highly important that we combine revolutionary sweep with practicalness.
15  Newspaper editorials spoke of the need to sweep away corruption.