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Sentence Examples Shy daughter Kea is left on the shelf for the senior prom until Lieutenant William Calley sweeps her off her feet. It is only a matter of time before the sport of mixed martial arts sweeps the United States. Many fighters now just practise triangle chokes, armbars and sweeps, all from the guard. Wood veneer sweeps right round the cabin, leather covers the floor as well as the seats, and many jewel-like details are silver-plated. The bregma, forehead, nose, mouth, and chin are born in succession as the sinciput sweeps along the sacrum. We can regard the unabsorbed fibre content of food to be the broom that sweeps the intestines clean. The minister then sweeps in and proceeds to sit in on each table's discussion. The grey seafog sweeps in, blurring the boundary between sea and land, disorientating anyone held in its spell. The cruelty endured by the children of the Victorian poor, who were sold to work as chimney sweeps, was unimaginable. An incomprehensible dispute breaks out in one corner, then sweeps terrifyingly across the whole room. Hermada is a multi-function cereal whose grains can be used to replace rice or wheat, and its blades of grass can be transformed into sweeps. This circuit begins in the plaza, with a processional staircase that sweeps up to the piano nobile entrance level. They adapted to the variable bounce, and then launched into the bowlers in a flurry of cuts, sweeps, drives and lofts over the infield. The road sweeps past vast stands of banana trees, and every single tree is encased in blue plastic. It's a stone cold fact that orchestral music either makes you fidget in your seat or it sweeps you away to another place. Then they added more grasses and some butterfly weed, asters, and anemones, often in repetition and sweeps. The tensor palatini muscle joins this muscular sling as it sweeps around the hamulus, a bony prominence of the lateral palate. The new units will be lightly trained, to carry out tasks like guard duty and border patrols, rather than raids and weapons sweeps. Henin-Hardenne gets right round the net post to steal advantage again and sweeps the ball past the Russian on the next point to break. The pathfinder teams provided tactical ground intelligence to law enforcement aviation assets, during aerial drug sweeps. Show More Sentences This fully expresses one characteristic of the stream, which, in former times, fetched many serpentine sweeps in its passage through the carses. Groundcover plantings of smoky mauve heathers come alive in spring with surrounding sweeps of cobalt blue grape hyacinths. I twist the throttle and with a tinny burble the bike leaps forward and sweeps around the first right-hand curve and into the straight. Walk in and you survey a dramatically curved staircase that sweeps down one level to the brasserie's bar and lounge. Finally the ash falls on his white cotton slacks and he sweeps it with his hand in an absent-minded manner. Through an eyehole you see a figure with a tiny flashlight that sweeps across you. Every morning in Times Square at around 11.30 am GMT, an incredibly bored looking cleaner sweeps the streets. One of its manifestations was naturalistic sweeps of winter aconite, bluebells, daffodils or anemones multiplying by the thousands in woodlands. Local authorities' occasional sweeps of the esplanade along Beach Road have done little to relieve the problem. The big freeze will finally come to an end this weekend as warmer weather sweeps the country, weathermen said last night. One could observe where the power of the Southern Ocean sweeps its mighty rollers up to dash their force onto the land. Morgan sweeps the last piece of china into the dustpan and heads towards the kitchen. The radius vector from the sun to a planet sweeps over equal areas in equal times. In Voyage the dust devil merely sweeps by and we are told that the atmosphere is so thin on Mars that such mini-tornadoes do not pose much risk. In contrast, the western half of the route is nearly flat and offers long, expansive views across large sweeps of farmland. The ratings and the sweeps, everyone takes everything else into consideration. Police divers and forensic officers were at the canal yesterday as the Force helicopter made several sweeps of the area. When mist fills the Himalayan valleys and heavy monsoon rain sweeps across the hills, it is natural for the wild creatures to seek shelter. Two sets of wrought-iron gates herald the entrance to a driveway that sweeps in a horseshoe round the front of the building. He sweeps them off their feet, uses them for his own selfish purposes, and then dumps them when he gets tired of them. Show More Sentences The reflex peristaltic contraction sweeps any refluxed gastric fluid back into the stomach. Plus, the holiday season is to retailers what the advertising rate-setting sweeps months are to TV networks. Walking briskly, he covers the meat-packing district in concentric passes the way a Zamboni sweeps an ice rink. The performances also have the depth of emotion that sweeps you into the lives of the characters without doubts or reservations. They say a new broom sweeps clean, but in the case of Naas Rugby Club they are banking on old friends are best. Now he has been caught out by the new boss, President Hu Jintao, which proves that a new broom sweeps clean even in China. What might be a crucial story at any other time of the year may be left for dead during sweeps. The rate at which a planet sweeps out area within its orbital ellipse is constant. Lush jungle sweeps by at arm's length, breaking occasionally to reveal lakes, mountains and ships. Guarded or shielded sweeps are very useful because they permit shallow cultivation of a wide strip without forming ridges. Accelerating out, the track leads to the long right-hander of turn three that sweeps you round onto a short straight. A groundsman yesterday sweeps dew off the lawn at Oakland Hills Country Club, with the Ryder Cup standing at right. The sweeps were part of his strategy for weeding predators out of the Skid Row mix, and not designed to roust people legally on the street. A two-part expose aired on our local CBS affiliate during sweeps week in May, the same week when the EEOC complaint was filed. Averaging a speed of 35 kph, the Skytrain gracefully sweeps over the traffic below, which rarely exceeds 14 kph. A tarmacadam driveway sweeps down to this ranch-style bungalow with a difference. The storm, with deluges of rain, sweeps over the mountain and the monsoon reigns over the low lands of Malabar. Using a seine four feet wide and at least 12 feet long with a mesh no larger than 0.5 inch, make several sweeps in shallow areas of your pond. There are prizes galore for the best dressed male and female, and best hat, plus sweeps and raffles during the day. This included sweeps of the 100 and 200 freestyles, led by Ethel Lackie and Martha Norelius, respectively. Show More Sentences Especially with the delightful back garden that Adrian designed with sweeps of gravel and curving footpaths. The team sweeps into the area and takes over any investigation, often angering local officials. In previous winters, the US military has mobilized one or two battalions for sweeps of particular areas, an approach which brought few results. Once reinforcements arrived, in the form of New York City's Tactical Police Force, the streets were cleared in coordinated sweeps of the area. The brushwork varies from broad sweeps of the brush for fur and fabric to short strokes for beard and skin. I find that the coverage of recent events comes on the heels of the May ratings sweeps. Should that mean that Geiger counter sweeps searching for dirty bombs would become unconstitutional? A crop duster sweeps low over a field, aiding farmers in a battle against late season insects. You should choose the appropriate door sweeps and thresholds for the bottom of the doors as well. Door weather stripping is installed on the door frame except for door sweeps and some thresholds. Previous work has shown that recurrent selective sweeps lead to a strong skew in the frequency spectrum toward an excess of rare variants. This implies that there is room for improving the power to detect selective sweeps by adding LD into frequency spectrum. It is during schooling when the male crappie sweeps out the nests and attracts the female. The classic English fairy tale is embellished with elegant visual sweeps of the beanstalk and the castle in the sky. My handwriting was so much more simple than her flourishes and sweeps and big spacing. A very cold south westerly wind from the Andes that sweeps across the pampas of Argentina and Uruguay. Get your filthy paws off her, I think as anger sweeps through my body but it is shortly replaced with a desire. The 42-page comic can be read in a single sitting, though it'll take several sweeps to pluck out the myriad subtexts and visual motifs. As the wind sweeps the warmer-than-air lake water, it collects moisture and carries it ten miles inland to a collision with Tug Hill. He sweeps through the Debussy pieces with a nonchalance that is almost disarming but his keyboard touch is indeed lithe and very beautiful. Show More Sentences They track the radar sweeps of drug surveillance planes to map out gaps in coverage. Complaints about these sweeps aroused the ire of not only the activists, but the Mexican government, whose LA consulate expressed its displeasure in no uncertain terms. The pulses are from a beam of light produced by the intense magnetic field, which sweeps across Earth as the neutron star rotates. The ngosha is a small but very numerous granivorous bird that sweeps over the sky in flocks like small clouds and descends on grain fields to feast. The train sweeps along the valley along Suisun Bay, where a collection of weather-beaten old ships from WWII sit looking forlorn in the still water. In the second law, Kepler used the idea of radius vector, and stated that the radius vector from the sun to a planet sweeps out equal areas in equal intervals of time. During the sweeps, police anti-truancy vans visit schools and officers visit every child absent from school without a justified reason on that day. Contact had been lost with the yacht on September 6, but sweeps of the sea failed to spot the crew or the ketch, a converted fishing boat, which is believed to have sunk. It is on the windward side of the island and so the full force of the Atlantic winds and waves sweeps in against it, pushing up a thirty-yard breadth of sand. Multiple sweeps of the cockpit indicated the light had no related emergencies, and since I couldn't reset it, I dismissed it as a bad annunciator panel. Occasionally the authorities make sweeps of certain neighborhoods, collecting the dishes and fining their owners. For humans, shark Week is just a once-a-year sweeps event for the Discovery Channel. Streams and standing winter water are pretty, grouse butts are everywhere, and with three sweeps of its scimitar wings a raptor slid into the next valley. An outgoing tide can sometimes be a lucky charm when a channel current sweeps all the baitfish through it and the predator fish line up and wait for them. A 3,000-meter rowing course with submersible lane markers is laid out on the Lower Otay Lake to accommodate athletes training in sweeps and sculls. Natural African bass fibre is coarse, stiff and provides good flexibility for use in upright floor sweeps and as a blend with other fibres for other applications. Each male sweeps round in a wide circle before suddenly soaring upwards. Each bird works to and fro across the levels, buoyant wings beating steadily with a pause every now and then before the hunter sweeps onwards in an easy glide. As Rick the zombie-slayer returns, a deadly flu strain that makes your head burst like a shaken soda can sweeps across the prison. As the mustachioed fun of No Shave November sweeps the country, its roots as a charitable effort may be getting lost. Show More Sentences The citizens of those countries understand the hazards of unmaintained chimneys, and their chimney sweeps are regular members of their home safety team. About 50,000 children in England bunk off school each day, despite the fact that millions of pounds have been spent on initiatives including town-centre truancy sweeps. There is an uneasy sensation akin to loss of control, a whirlwind that trips my balance, sweeps me off my steady feet and into a foggy daze at odd times of the day. Beautiful in appearance, yet deadly in application, capoeira uses the natural physics of the human body to deliver amazingly swift sweeps and crushing blows. These tactics not only failed to engage the guerrillas, who easily evaded the large jungle sweeps, but their heavy-handedness alienated the local population. From the Malaspina Glacier west of Yakutat Bay, the Tongass sweeps south 500 miles over most of Alaska's southeastern panhandle and the Alexander Archipelago. Vegetable fibers act a little like a brush which cleans and sweeps. Unlike previous sweeps in the area, the Americans and their Iraqi allies plan to establish a long-term presence to keep insurgents from returning. These are military sweeps of areas known to be hostile to the Karzai government to kill or round up suspected opponents and terrorise the population. We made a few sweeps around the area to make sure when we dropped the smoke, no South Korean fishing vessel would see our action as a sign of aggression. The Golden Fleece here would appear to be a Nielsen rating during sweeps. Did I think that it would descend to the depths of some people suggesting we were doing this because the networks are going into a sweeps period when ratings become important? Outside the wind howls, the snow falls, the occasional taxi sweeps past. It forms a significant bulwark against the tide so that, even on neaps, there is an appreciable movement of water as the pent-up flow sweeps around the headland. As foot and mouth sweeps the land and crops fail because of the disastrous growing season, farmers must be wondering where the next disaster will come from. As this margin inclines dorsally, it sweeps around in a distally concave arc to produce a rounded, distally pointing extremity adjacent to the dorsal margin. The rustle and bustle that regularly sweeps the British front row at the shows is usually just some generous soul handing round a bag of licorice comfits. By contrast, St Cecilia sweeps in on joyous flourishes from trumpets and drums, with rushing strings as buoyant as those that welcome Handel's Queen of Sheba. The 136 men, all members of the Fur ethnic group aged between 20 and 60, were rounded up in early March in two separate sweeps in the Garsila and Mugjir areas in Wadi Saleh. Some believed officers crossed that line with the parole sweeps conducted last month, which resulted in 192 arrests, more than half of ex-cons violating their parole. Show More Sentences Selective sweeps can be detected by measuring linkage disequilibrium, or whether a given haplotype is overrepresented in the population. Selective sweeps occur when an allele becomes more common in a population as a result of positive selection. There's some lovely writing here, though, especially when the prose takes flight in likably offbeat, even cinematic, sweeps. At the head of Langstrath the perimeter crosses Stake Pass, another pedestrian route, and sweeps eastward down Great Langdale to Windermere. I Jagdgeschwader 3 were able to conduct fighter sweeps over Calais after noon, with the battle winding down. Is there a future for, er, Caskett? Or is this just a November sweeps romance? Influence sweeps are equipment, often towed, that emulate a particular ship signature, thereby causing a mine to detonate. He added the Australian top order is woefully ill equipped to play spin, adding ugly sweeps and hoicks are taking them nowhere. Then Cathy sweeps Cannistraci literally off her feet in a bear hug. Senior Ranger Gavin Hall said the team made daily sweeps of Cefn Sidan's strand line and they never knew what they would find. His journey was sprinkled with magic as chimney sweeps, rocking robins and giant Christmas bells lined the way. Half of the six and seven-year-olds dressed up as gentry, while the rest of the youngsters took on the persona of chimney sweeps and pickpockets. Almost 1,500 chimney sweeps can be found using CSIA's free zip-code locator at csia. I went on a training course in Derby and then did some training with one of Yorkshire's master chimney sweeps, which was very intense. Up to the middle of the 19th century, poor Alpine farmers in Ticino sold their children as chimney sweeps in Milan. The intelligence meant that the British did not need wasteful defensive standing patrols and sweeps of the North Sea. Beyond the Tawe the bay sweeps for six miles before reaching Mumbles Head, its most westerly point. There were also clean sweeps in the women's 200m through Vicky Carmichael and Shona Burns and hammer with Lisa-Marie Shippen and Leah Weatheritt. Sophisticated, nuanced, melodious pop music, that sweeps you away. This approach easily sweeps Assange and WikiLeaks into its ambit. Show More Sentences Cats-paw, a light air of wind perceived... by the impression made on the surface of the sea, which it sweeps very lightly, and then decays. But to a child's vision at least those May Day sweeps did much to brighten the city dullness, and year by year I watched for them eagerly from the window. Motivated by these approaches, we aimed to use selective sweeps to detect markers associated with artificial selection for racing performance in Thoroughbreds. The early Victorian era before the reforms of the 1840s became notorious for the employment of young children in factories and mines and as chimney sweeps. In service since 1982 are the RAN's two 520-ton auxiliary minesweepers Bandicoot and Wallaroo, which also deploy reconfigurable permanent-magnet influence sweeps. And as effortlessly as a drunken gunslinger sweeps a bartop full of shot glasses onto the saloon floor, the wind upended all the potted plants on the porch. Lord Shaftesbury, a devout Evangelical, campaigned to improve the conditions in factories, in mines, for chimney sweeps, and for the education of the very poor. In the harrowing, Christ sweeps down upon death, hell, and the Devil, smashes down the doors of hell, and triumphantly carries the just off to heaven. The most common such sweeps are magnetic and acoustic generators. Mechanical sweeps are devices designed to cut the anchoring cables of moored mines, and preferably attach a tag to help the subsequent localization and neutralization. It has been noted that the new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows the corners. Every now and then, the older broom must trust the young broom's judgment. The tree-lined gravelled drive, approached over a cattle grid, sweeps between indigenous woodland and post and rail paddocks towards an electrically operated gate. From Saalfeld the Saale enters the limestone hill region north of the Thuringian Forest, and sweeps beneath the barren, conical hills enclosing the university town of Jena. Numerous Highland Jacobite supporters, captured in the aftermath of Culloden and rigorous Government sweeps of the Highlands, were imprisoned on ships on the River Thames. In winter, too, There is grand aeolism upon my hills, When the blast sweeps the pine-boughs, and wails forth In long-drawn sobs and shrieking semitones. Latino activists say they are satisfied that the new role the Immigration and Naturalization Service will have in joining police-led gang sweeps is within legal guidelines. Examples from Classical Literature The coronoid process in Thrinaxodon sweeps upward posterodorsally at an angle oblique to the long axis of the ramus. Others of the crew had scrambled to their feet and ran to help those at the sweeps. Then he sweeps them all together in one heap, along with snail shells and rush-seeds. To expect that, after taking part in half a dozen drag sweeps, any one of them will turn up trumps. The ocean current which sweeps past this cape, and opens the way to the other side of Baffin Bay, is wonderful. The most dangerous of these winds is the Borea or suer, that sweeps down from the north as through a funnel. I could not swim a stroke, and it crossed my mind to get one of the sweeps to keep me afloat. It appeared to have run aground, and they were trying to push it off with the sweeps. This German-creed sweeps the earth with all the bombast of a war-mad Kaiser. The Osmia dusts them, brushes them thoroughly with her tarsi and then sweeps them out backwards. This is so violent that it even sweeps across to the distant Ural Mountains. Well, I like baronesses to do my dirty work for me and Montmorencys for my sweeps. All else is but the setting, and the eye sweeps with indifference the line of unpeopled rocks. Those sweeps of flatness on either hand, how they tell in the midst of a Mountain View! The Merrimack sweeps grandly along in front of them with a broad curve to the ocean, three miles below. It is like the pursuit of the gossamer, which the least breath sweeps away. But it was a desert outpost then, a catch-all for the human drift which every whirlwind of discovery sweeps along. He makes a feint of offering a protest, but she sweeps it away with her disdainful hand. A silent rush of air draws back the creature's pointed ears and sweeps its long braided tress upward into a sinuous curve and whiplike spiral. No huge concave sweeps of the brush, no daubing or splashing here. Show More Sentences It is a noble river, this San Juan, with its broad sweeps and curves. From this point the track sweeps downward to Bartons Crossing, Helmdale, and the purely agricultural county of Merton. The sextant of the meetinouse, which sweeps And dusts, or is supposed too! This caused the other ends to slide, and all the sweeps got away from me. Instead, it sprang up to a gale which now and then, from a tattered sky, flung pale sweeps of sunlight over a landscape chaotically tossed. On her thwarts two figures, dipping and rising, labored with the sweeps. I soon reached the beckets of the sweeps, and found four in them. He springs forward, he louts low and sweeps upwards with Whitefire. Here, for the first time, the American flag was unfurled to the breeze that sweeps the great naked wastes of the central wilderness. She had four long sweeps at each end, so we judged she carried as many as thirty men, likely. Time-lapse photography of growing shoots reveals spooky, circular sweeps called nutation. The radius vector of a planet sweeps over equal areas in equal times. If not, it can be carried further with a few sweeps of the raspatory. This is suicide as a cry against implacability, as big history sweeps down upon the little man. The wind that sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens that hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw closer together. Alas the freezing water temperatures meant that the fish stayed doggo on the bottom and only 10 carplets were caught in three major sweeps of the net. In the cold hour the fire began to die, and I was about stepping forth to replenish it, for now the snow came in flying sweeps and with it a chill mist. Wu Luan does not move, embodying an extreme motionlessness in contrast to Wan's energetic exit as she sweeps out, her long robes trailing behind her. Slowly he followed it with his eyes, winding in wide sweeps among the bleak, bare hills, bleaker and barer and lower-lying than any hills he had yet encountered. Its orientation is such that as it spins, a beam from its magnetic pole sweeps repeatedly past the Earth, giving rise to regular blips of radio waves. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of sweeps? Words that rhyme with sweeps What is the adverb for sweeps? What is the adjective for sweeps? What is the noun for sweeps? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words sweeping statement sweeping measures sweepingly sweeping sweepers sweeper sweepstake sweepstakes sweepy sweer sweet Sweet 6-letter Words Starting With s sw swe swee sweep