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Sentence Examples Public morality, especially, had been swept away in France by a tidal wave of bribery and corruption. Their mother joined the frantic rescue effort but all three were swept away. To the evident delight of most citizens, the regime which had repressed them for so long was swept away. He swept away much of the petty criminality that financed other illegal activities in the city. He was swept away by him and the flush of inspiration and excitement led to some of his religious masterpieces. Then the Roman legionaries swept away the smoking ashes and sowed the land with salt to prevent anything from ever growing there again. He thought his number was up when his fishing boat capsized and his life jacket was swept away. Many of these immotile spermatids are dislodged from the spermatheca and swept away as oocytes parade through the reproductive tract. Its individuality and its links with York, which is not a faceless city but has its own special character and heritage, are swept away. This morning the rain swept away, the clouds rolled back, and we were blessed with pellucid blue skies and sunshine from dawn till dusk. A prairie fire had swept away all traces of vegetation and there was a black, funereal mantle as far as the eye could reach in every direction. The rocks and soil were mutilated into mush that could easily be swept away from the scene. The machinery at main branch on Cairo road was swept away by bailiffs to recover money owed to Luscold, a subsidiary of the Galaun holdings. This happened in Spain under the Visigoths and in Italy under the Ostrogoths, but both those kingdoms were swept away. There is a way, however, to decrease the risk of being swept away in a slide and becoming another statistic. There was not a single corner without a spiderweb waiting to be swept away by Steph's washcloth. Maybe it's meant to raise your bloodlust, but Daniel didn't get swept away. Roads and ports were swept away, making it impossible to get to some of the most devastated areas quickly. Make an agreement with your partner to look for the signal after each time that the cards are swept away. Should a hammerhead or whitetip come belting along expecting a tasty snack, I was not anxious to be swept away by its enthusiasm. Show More Sentences Several trees snapped and broke apart like matchsticks, and as I climbed my tree, I could only hope that it, too, would not be swept away. Legalist institutions that manage that pursuit maladroitly are ultimately swept away. He wasn't seen as a rebellious American any more, simply part of the establishment that was being swept away by glasnost and perestroika. The busy streets of Los Angeles were swept away by the unusual heat wave baking the city. The vortex of wars and revolutions swept away all paper evidence of his education. He apologised for keeping me waiting and swiftly swept away his papers to make way for me. Typewriting institutes are becoming an oddity, as manual typewriters are swept away by word processing software and computer keyboards. Snow blew madly in a near-blinding wave, big wet clumps collecting on the windshield only to be swept away by the wipers. Maybe we don't need to get swept away in a tidal wave of gift wrap every 12 months. Walls are made by the owners weaving together local reeds and leaves, which can easily be replaced if swept away. The moderates so often seem to be swept away by the extremists and rejectionists. Sunday drinking has also become a fact of life in recent years, as a host of licensing restrictions have been swept away. It raises the question of whether they will avoid resorting to a new round of military dictatorships, or, alternately, be swept away by social revolution. Horst Ulrich, a 72-year-old German on a trek with a group of friends, watched four Nepali guides swept away by an avalanche. We, the men in the audience, sympathised from somewhere deep in our gut as these brave youths were swept away in the sea of Ulster's dancing womankind. His body is swept away with all the others, like a dried-up fly in a dusty corner. Will love interest, Rianna be swept away by his animal magnetism? She glared at him, taking a long drag from the cigarette and exhaling a small cloud of smoke that was quickly swept away by the unforgiving Chicago wind. The costs associated with risk were stunningly apparent to the young girl, as curious people wandering out to the beach were swept away by the rising tide. It swept away the old feudal order of aristocrats and kings. Show More Sentences Here the creaky melodrama is swept away by Tchaikovsky's lyrical music. In a scene recalling the earthquake's devastation, riverfront houses loomed over the river at a dangerous tilt after a landslide swept away most of their foundations. David was on a bodyboard, being swept away before Sarah's eyes. The vehicle was removed by 4pm and leftover rubbish was swept away. If the rig could be damaged and its contents lost, a spokeswoman for the agency asked, could not DU shells be swept away or moved from the seabed too? When he wishes to replace a footbridge, swept away by the river in flood, he gives instructions for it to be built of larch, because it is cheap and quick. What remained of the guild system was swept away in the name of free enterprise and repressive legislation choked the beginnings of the trade union movement. The swan nest at Kempten Promenade, which was on danger of being swept away by the rising waters of the Garavogue River, is now inhabited by a duck and six ducklings. It was swept away in 1864, and replaced by a new iron bridge, built at the Milton Ironworks near Elsecar. During the Great Flood, large quantities of debris built up behind it, and then caused the iron bridge below it to be swept away. A clear breach is when the waves roll over the vessel without breaking. A clean breach is when everything on deck is swept away. On 11 March 1864, the previous wooden bridge was swept away by the Great Sheffield Flood, caused by the collapse of Dale Dike Dam. Next day, the German positions near the wood were swept away in the Battle of Polygon Wood. Even at the time the law tracts were being written these petty kingdoms were being swept away by newly emerging dynasties of dynamic overkings. In Montpelier, where this prison stands, the inveterate prejudice against prisoners has been swept away. I was living in Baltimore, teaching art and sleeping with an artist when, out of nowhere, I was swept away in a tide of baby fever. That is why the jackboot of fascism and dead-hand of communism were swept away. Two more people drowned when they were swept away by a swollen river in the state capital Chilpancingo. Rao and one of the students who was swept away in the Beas river near Mandi early this month. The group was swept away on the 4,000m Dome de Neige near the town of Gap, in the Massif des Ecrins range. Show More Sentences The present parish church was built in 1778 after the church built in 1476 was swept away in a flood the previous year. In 1924, another storm swept away part of one of the houses and it was determined the site should be made secure and more seriously investigated. As they are unzipped and swept away by powerful wind machines, hair becomes freed, and make up is wiped away. And the power of the waves was demonstrated on Fair Isle in Shetland, where a wall at the 120-year-old lighthouse was swept away. Thousands mund reservoir of wheat and chaff were swept away in hours by the flood. Pearce has swept away the poison and paranoia which infested Billy Davies' unlamented regime at the City Ground. Instant drama ensued as Wolves appealed for a penalty as Brazilian right-back Rafael swept away any danger from Jarvis with his upper body after 40 seconds. The timber defences were destroyed or damaged by the storm with most of the beach swept away, and a large amount of cliff eroded exposing the underlying clay. The youngster had been playing with his brother, nine, when he was swept away on Tuesday afternoon and a massive search was carried out along the River Towy until 10pm. However, not every architect or client was swept away by this tide. There is also a lot of dust, which builds up because in order to undust, everything would first have to be swept away, and that has never happened. The river burst its banks in the late afternoon, flooding areas of Sheffield from the Wicker to Meadowhall, and two people died after being swept away by the water. The sluice was later swept away in a flood and never replaced. The same winter floods saw the bridge at Tenbury also swept away. In 1795 the bridge at Bewdley in Worcestershire was swept away in the winter floods and Telford was responsible for the design of its replacement. All was to be swept away by the tumult that was to overtake Europe at the turn of the 19th century with the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. There is struggle for food, accentuated by the fact that small items tend to be swept away by the outgoing tide or to sink down the slope to deep water. Eight bottlenose dolphins that lived at the Marine Life Aquarium in Gulfport, Mississippi were swept away from their aquarium pool during Hurricane Katrina. A passerby spotted her being swept away and threw her a life buoy. These shows were immediately widely copied in America, and the Edwardian musical comedy swept away the earlier musical forms of comic opera and operetta. Show More Sentences These attacks have succeeded in surrounding the composer with a kind of barricade of prejudice which must be swept away before justice can be done to his genius. Might it not be true, though, that this comet and others have periodically had lighter molecules swept away by the solar wind as they have neared the sun and formed tails? Examples from Classical Literature If the hurricane swept away our tent, I dont know where we should find it again. His love welled out in blissfulness, and the sight of it swept away the beholders in a torrent of love. The others had barely got beyond the embankment, when they were swept away. Even the grove of banana trees that used to embower his house had been swept away. All these, however, are a concession, and are swept away by Professor Peano. He heard it over the noise of the waters he had been swept away from the cataract. Then she swept away, flouncing her pink silk dress, and with her head in the air. The madrepore pier had been nearly swept away, and the houses near the water were flooded. The farm-house in which we resided has long since been swept away, with its barns, its piggery, and its shippon. The reputation we have been building up so arduously for years has been swept away in two short hours. The whole narrow peninsula of North Holland was in imminent danger of being swept away for ever. The parsonage is swept away, and the rector of the church, Rev. Mr. diller, was drowned. Suddenly they swept away from the hilly country and were over the German air base. The youngsters who had tangoed best and had shone in cabarets were swept away as grass by scythes. This is probably the intention, since I was assured that the level crossing would shortly be swept away. Rome, undutiful daughter, swept away her mother city so thoroughly that its site has become a matter of dispute. All superficial accumulations were swept away, and the bedrock was exposed. All her skilful arguments, all her fine resolutions, were swept away. The Hun and the Avar had been driven back or swept away from the earth. All sense of weariness had been swept away by the invigorating refreshment of the great and hopeful discovery which he had made. Show More Sentences Its teeming population has been swept away by the besom of Jehovahs wrath. With song and halloo and blast of horns, they swept away into the forest. I am swept away and overwhelmed by some chimeric longing that has no name. Heedless of scaramouche's howls of pain, he swept away shoe and stocking. Clemens's resolutions for secluding himself were swept away. Then he chanced upon Kipling's poems, and was swept away by the lilt and swing and glamour with which familiar things had been invested. Then it was that Eppie had been swept away by the engulfing relative. What had swept away those bodies might be comparable to a flash flood. And again the fortune of schmaltz was swept away and again he was kicked. But before she could speak, Harold, the office-boy, entered the room with a card, and the conversation was swept away on a tidal wave of work. However, the deliberate staginess of the setting stops us from being swept away by the drama and emotion of it all. When this was swept away the floor presented no suspicious traces. All detailed thoughts, all the minutia of the mind were swept away. I am sure you did not, for a duster would have swept away these shreds of varnish. He swept away conventions and revolutionised art all over the world. The US Coast Guard has opened fire on a derelict fishing vessel, swept away in the Japanese tsunami and found floating off the coast of Canada. The grandmother had saved a little money, but it was swept away by the illness of the daughter and by the cost of the two funerals. He rose and placed his candle unsuspectingly on the floor near his loom, swept away the sand without noticing any change, and removed the bricks. As it meandered among rocks and precipices, they were frequently obliged to ford it, and such was its rapidity that the men were often in danger of being swept away. All the old fire and passion with which he had written it were reborn in him, and he was swayed and swept away so that he was blind and deaf to the faults of it. Show More Sentences And anxious thoughts may be swept away, As we bravely wield a broom. Houses, barns, and fences are quite commonly swept away in their course. And so the night's round came to an end, and a couple of days later the government, whereby all his plans were overthrown and swept away, as will be seen farther on. Find more words! 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