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sweep English

Meaning sweep meaning

What does sweep mean?
Definitions in simple English

sweep Verb

— When you sweep the floor, you use the broom to clean it. The road cleaner swept the roads clean.

sweep

— verb (= brush) sweep across or over Her long skirt brushed the floor A gasp swept cross the audience — verb (= sail) move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions The diva swept into the room Shreds of paper sailed through the air The searchlights swept across the sky — verb (= broom) sweep with a broom or as if with a broom Sweep the crumbs off the table Sweep under the bed — noun a wide scope the sweep of the plains — verb (= sweep up, drag) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action They were swept up by the events don't drag me into this business — verb (= traverse, span) to cover or extend over an area or time period Rivers traverse the valley floor The parking lot spans 3 acres The novel spans three centuries — verb clean by sweeping Please sweep the floor — verb win an overwhelming victory in or on Her new show dog swept all championships — verb cover the entire range of — noun a long oar used in an open boat — noun a movement in an arc a sweep of his arm — noun (= end run) (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line — noun (= slam) winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge — verb make a big sweeping gesture or movement — noun (= chimneysweeper) someone who cleans soot from chimneys

Synonyms sweep synonyms

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sweep English » English

brush clean broom dust clear away wipe whisk swing stroke rake wave traverse sweep up shadoof swing out sweeping span scope range glide flapping end run embroil cross clear chimneysweep chimney sweep wipe out whistle upsweep tidy up tangle sweep oar slam shave scan sail rake up movement move flap field expanse erase drag in drag clean up chimneysweeper brush away wipe up

Topics sweep topics

What do people use sweep to talk about?
Person Sense, perceive See

Look
Daily life Cleaning

Sweep, rake
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Move quickly
Physical actions Move something Handle something

Touch
Social behavior Conflict War

Win
Language and thought Communication Say Ask

Hide your thoughts

Conjugation sweep conjugation

How do you conjugate sweep?

sweep · verb

Examples sweep examples

How do I use sweep in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He ordered me to sweep the room.
Just sweep it under the rug.
You have only to sweep the floor.
I made him sweep the floor.
Sweep my room.
I had her sweep my room.
All you have to do is sweep the floor.
Mary wants to sweep the house.
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
You sweep the kitchen floor while I clean the bathroom.
I sweep the floor.
I'll sweep the floor while you wash the dishes.
We need to sweep up the dust.
After you blow up those balloons, could you sweep the room?
It will be hard to sweep these crumbs.
I have to sweep my room.
Sweep the floor.

Movie subtitles

With this. we can finally sweep away the parasites who were sucking Prince Clovis dry.
When the new emperor called home Zheng He's mighty navy, he virtually guaranteed that it wouId be the West's version of civilization that would sweep the globe.
Sweep with a finger.
Go on, sweep the cellar.
When Lohmann has untied all the knots, then you may sweep up as much as you like.
The nation that wins my secret can sweep the world with invisible armies!
She's gonna make a clean sweep of the old.
And when the great columns of the movement. sweep through Germany today. then I know that you will close ranks. and we know that Germany lies in front of us.
We'll sweep the country with this stuff.
You must sweep 'em off their feet.
I'll wash and sew and sweep and cook and.
The Red Flag will sweep the country.
You didn't sweep me off my feet like you did the others.
Fetch the firewood! Put the samovar on! Sweep the floor!
He could sweep the seas for England.
We'll sweep the seas for England.
Disguised as a sweep.
Boys, sweep them out of the gutter.
Well, sweep out the gutter.
All my life I've hoped and prayed for a Prince Charming that would ride up on his white steed and sweep me into his heart.
What a dirty little sweep it is.
Come here, you dirty little sweep.
Tonight, the wind will sweep the sand away.
But the little chimney sweep knows another way to get into Belinda's house. Down the chimney.
Belinda is saved and the hero of the hour is the little chimney sweep.
We're going to sweep him right off his feet, - right here in the dust of Havana. - How, V. S?
Oh, come on. Sweep me off my feet, huh?
Why don't you have it cut or sweep it back behind your ears?
Chimney sweep ladies, i know why the old chimney won't draw.
Or before a maid gets in to sweep up.

News and current affairs

As Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff have shown in their book This Time is Different, over the long sweep of history, post-crisis recoveries in output and employment tend to be decidedly subpar.
A clean sweep, however, will ultimately be good for stocks and certainly much better than cover-up and lingering doubts about what the books really look like.
Of course, it is tempting for Europe not to propose or do anything, and simply wait for the Iraqi crisis to sweep John Kerry into the White House and George Bush back to Texas.
Its 14-foot surge of seawater was backed by the sea-level rise already caused by a century of global warming, and the storm's sweep and intensity was fueled by a warming planet's warmer ocean waters.
I spent the last ten years watching huge changes sweep Eastern Europe.
Syria's opposition leaders do not need to sweep their political differences under the rug in order to gain the international community's support.
Acemoglu and Robinson argue that in the broad sweep of history, political orders that include everyone in the economic process are more likely to succeed in the long term.
Taken together, these events have the potential to sweep aside today's nuclear arms control regime -- something that the Republican majority in America's Senate would not be sorry to see.
People were afraid of malevolent computer viruses that would sweep the world and destroy information and programs in the space of a few hours.
The journalists were part of a spring sweep that turned 75 Cubans-including librarians, writers, and other professionals-into political prisoners.
Ninth-grade physics, unlike ninth-grade biology, illustrates the grand sweep of the laws of nature, and the power of an equation to describe a vast number of different phenomena can be taught at this level.
What we heard was a robust form of Christian conservatism unheard since the days of de Gaulle, Adenauer, and de Gasperi - and the communitarian tone helped sweep the post-communists away.
Arab democracy, he claims, has now become a domestic concern in the United States, which will make it hard for American presidents to sweep the abuses of friendly Arab regimes under the rug, as they did in the past.
Many diplomats would prefer to forget the Russo-Georgian war or sweep it under the rug.
Sooner or later the Taliban will sweep to power again, at liberty as happened before to throw acid in women's faces.
They must be addressed head-on, with a clean sweep of its leadership and a complete overhaul of its governance structures.
This is the core element of the behavioral economics revolution that has begun to sweep economics over the last decade or so.
Yes, Castro jailed 75 independent journalists and others in an April sweep - that is the monster in him.
But any renegotiation following a Syriza victory would undoubtedly unleash a political avalanche in the southern EU that would sweep away austerity and fully reignite the eurozone crisis.
In the meantime, Labour seems to be hoping for who-knows-what to turn the tide, while keeping their collective fingers crossed that they will not be eviscerated in Scotland, where the Scottish National Party is threatening to sweep the board.

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