Word Finder - swept

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To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.

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to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney

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To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.

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The offended countess swept out of the ballroom.

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To search (a place) methodically.

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To travel quickly.

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To play a sweep shot.

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To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.

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To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.

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To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.

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To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.

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To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.

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She swept the peelings off the table onto the floor.

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To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.

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Their long descending train, / With rubies edg'd and sapphires, swept the plain.

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To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.

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To strike with a long stroke.

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To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.

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To draw or drag something over.

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to sweep the bottom of a river with a net

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To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.

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to sweep the heavens with a telescope

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(including) to vacuum a carpet or rug

His multi-colored eyes swept over her.

His blue gaze swept over her.

He stood and swept her into his arms.

His eyes swept over her.

He swept her around.

Her jet black hair was swept up gracefully into a plaited crown.

Bordeaux stepped forward, and before she had time to protest, he swept her up and deposited her on the back of the bay.

He held her for a moment then swept her up in his arms.

He withdrew, and the cold wind swept over her.

One hand on her waist, the other holding hers lightly, he gracefully swept her around.

Satisfied, the nurse swept up the linens she'd changed and left.

His gaze swept around the room methodically, coming to rest on her.

His silver gaze swept over her.

Her eyes swept over his muscular form, from his shapely shoulders and wide back to the thick thighs outlined by the sweats.

Fear swept through her, and he offered a tight smile.

He swept his hand to motion her through the doorway, then walked to the desk and the only chair in the room.

The Angevins were less successful towards the south, where the first signs were appearing of that storm which ultimately swept away the Hungarian monarchy.

In less than twenty years after the death of its founder, it collapsed before a combined attack of all Poland's enemies, and simultaneously a terrible pagan reaction swept away the poor remnants of Christianity and civilization.

This is not me fighting against the tide of history but being swept along with it.

The Lun-Ho valley Where it cut through the line was closed by entanglements and fougasses, and swept by batteries on each side.

Thirty-six guns swept the ground with shrapnel.

He failed as a political reformer because the merchants and the moneyed classes, whom the Gracchi had tried to conciliate, feared that they would themselves be swept away by a revolution of which the mob and its leaders would be the ultimate controllers.

At Marston Moor Lucas swept Fairfax's Yorkshire horse before him, but later in the day he was taken prisoner.

The main features of the tariff history of the United States since the Civil War have been that the internal taxes have been almost entirely swept away, the import duties on purely revenue articles similarly abolished, while those import duties that operated to protect domestic industries have been maintained, and indeed in many cases increased.

Their kingdom was destroyed by an invasion of the Kara-Kitais, another Turkish tribe pressing westwards from the Chinese frontier, who in their turn were swept away in 1219 by Jenghiz Khan.

King John Casimir, betrayed and abandoned by his own subjects, fled .to Silesia, and profiting by the cataclysm which, for the moment, had swept the Polish state out of existence, the Muscovites, unopposed, quickly appropriated nearly everything which was not already occupied by the Swedes.

He was at his best at such a moment, and the rallied Federals under his command swept all before them.

These works swept aside the dry traditional fossil lore which had been accumulating in France and Germany.

He was not, however, destined to compass the downfall of the Sullan regime; the crisis of the Slave War placed the Senate at the mercy of Pompey and Crassus, who in 70 B.C. swept away the safeguards of senatorial ascendancy, restored the initiative in legislation to the tribunes, and replaced the Equestrian order, i.e.

The prestige thus won by the British in the south in 1779 was immensely increased in the following year, when they victoriously swept up through South and North Carolina.

One smote the threshold with an axe, another with a pestle, the third swept it with a broom - three symbols of culture (for trees were hewn down with the axe, grain pounded with the pestle, and the fruits of the field swept up with the broom) which Silvanus could not endure.

The Tigris may have swept the western wall, though now a wide belt of sand has accumulated between the ruins and its present channel which is perpetually shifting.

The neighbours said that the fairies caused the phenomenon, as the man had swept his chimney with a bough of holly, and the holly is "a gentle tree," dear to the fairies.

Nearly the whole of the abbey buildings, including the magnificent church, were swept away at the close of the 18th century.

Modern influences, one of the most marked of which is the widespread erection of vast blocks of residential flats, have swept away much that was reminiscent of the historical connexions of the "old court suburb."

Headed by Joseph Howe, the advocates of repeal swept the province at the Dominion election.

Old buildings in the heart of the Altstadt have been swept away, and their place occupied by modern business houses and new streets.

During an invasion the Avars swept off the five sons of this warrior into Illyria, but one, his namesake, returned to Italy and restored the ruined fortunes of his house.

Of earlier bridges one, which crossed at High Street, was swept away by the flood of 1621, and another, constructed by General Wade in 1723-1733, was apparently the predecessor of Smeaton's bridge.

There was also the castle of the O'Reillys, but this and all other antiquities of the town were swept away during the violent and continuous feuds to which the country was subjected.

The Victoria Bridge is a fine steel structure, which replaced the bridge swept away by floods in February 1893.

The power of the Caisse de la Dette, which had virtually controlled the execution of the international agreements concerning the finances, was swept away, together with almost all the other financial fetters binding Egypt.

The 1st Division attacked a few minutes later, and the cavalry swept round the left of the line of entrenchments, cutting down any fugitives who attempted resistance and reaching the enemys camp in rear.

The sirdar sent him rifles and ammunition across the desert from Korti; but before they arrived, Mahmuds army, sent by the khalifa, swept down on Metemma on the 1st of July and massacred Abdalla wad Said and his garrison.

But it would not have terminated advantageously for them at all, had not the powerful and highly efficient Danish fleet effectually prevented the Swedish government from succouring its distressed German provinces, and finally swept the Swedish fleets out of the northern waters.

After the withdrawal of the Romans the country became for centuries the prey of the various peoples who swept across it in their restless migrations.

Bruce now swept the country, but Carlisle he could not take.

But he also fostered a navy, under Sir Andrew Wood, who swept the seas of the English pirates.

These serve to modify the temperatures of the plateau, which is swept by cold winds at all seasons of the year.

The Russian infantry halted for the guns to prepare the way, and the heavy projectiles both swept the crest of the British knoll and destroyed the camp in rear.