Synonym: brush, clean, coast, extend, glide, move, range, skim, slide, slip, stretch, vacuum. Similar words: week, weed, weekly, weed out, swell, swear, between, weekend. Meaning: [swɪːp] 
n. 1. a wide scope 2. someone who cleans soot from chimneys 3. winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge 4. a long oar used in an open boat 5. (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line 6. a movement in an arc. v. 1. sweep across or over 2. move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions 3. sweep with a broom or as if with a broom 4. force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action 5. to cover or extend over an area or time period 6. clean by sweeping 7. win an overwhelming victory in or on 8. cover the entire range of 9. make a big sweeping gesture or movement.
n. 1. a wide scope 2. someone who cleans soot from chimneys 3. winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge 4. a long oar used in an open boat 5. (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line 6. a movement in an arc. v. 1. sweep across or over 2. move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions 3. sweep with a broom or as if with a broom 4. force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action 5. to cover or extend over an area or time period 6. clean by sweeping 7. win an overwhelming victory in or on 8. cover the entire range of 9. make a big sweeping gesture or movement. 
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61. A clean sweep, that was what was needed.
62. There was a lake and a sweep of land blurring into mountains.
63. This is just like the sweep stroke where we extend the reach to apply more force.
64. Elfant gestures expansively, the sweep of his arm passing over the thousand of tiny circles at his booth.
65. She had always assumed that something would happen, sometime, to sweep away her marital comfort.
66. The poll also pointed to a clean sweep for the Democrats in elections for lieutenant-governor and attorney-general.
67. The farm was beside Lake Eyrie and rain, along with bitter winds, would sweep over the vineyard.
68. When the bonus was announced, racing insiders joked that it would take another Secretariat to sweep the events.
69. Grant obeyed, flinging the pistol off to one side with a sweep of his arm.
70. With a sweep of one mighty fist, the daemon dashed the wounded warrior aside.
71. Must be fitted so that sweep is in direction of water flow.
72. Then it began to sweep slowly over her in the deprecating manner that Jessamy remembered so clearly from four years ago.
73. As the water rose it eddied into whirlpools that threatened to sweep her away.
74. If only I had a crinoline to sweep down the grand staircase in!
75. Yet the world champion is so unpredictably gifted that one on-song display could easily enable her to sweep aside the opposition.
76. I took my place in the refectory at a separate table near the dais and watched the lady prioress sweep in.
77. Behind the long black sweep of counter Sergeant Camb sat fanning himself with a newspaper[sentence dictionary], the sweat dripping down his forehead.
78. The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! Henry Ward Beecher 
79. He had reasoned that, like him, Eleanor would want to continue their friendship and sweep the quarrel under the carpet.
80. A sweep of light remained between frayed brocade curtains, without a gleam on the parquet floor.
81. Thirty-four of those suspects were arrested early Friday in a sweep by federal agents.
82. His route curved away in a graceful sweep ahead of him. Three hours later he was obsessed with petrol.
83. I was visible for a sweep of sixty degrees and anyone entering the courtyard would get a full view.
84. They paused a while to let a fleet of barges, packed with city dignitaries, sweep by as stately as swans.
85. Although regulations relating to health and safety have a long history, the sweep and scope of the new powers are unprecedented.
86. To stop bad things before they become great floods that sweep away all living things.
87. We continued through the sweep and found a few huts and found no bod-ies whatsoever.
88. The skin tone, the shine on the dark hair, the thick sweep of lashes, were lifelike.
89. His route curved away in a graceful sweep ahead of him.
90. The War threatened to sweep away such fears in the uninhibited jingoism that greeted the outbreak of hostilities.
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