Synonym: wholesale. Similar words: weeping, creeping, sleeping, housekeeping, sleeping bag, in keeping with, sleeping partner, out of keeping with. Meaning: ['swɪːpɪŋ] n. the act of cleaning with a broom. adj. 1. taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination 2. ignoring distinctions.
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61. I just finished sweeping the kitchen floor.
62. He is sweeping along on a tide of revisionism.
63. A supposed crime wave is sweeping the land.
64. Meanwhile Vaughan, caught sweeping, failed to score.
65. A couple of inmates were picking up leaves from around the graves, sweeping them into a large black sack.
66. The city eventually decided that ambulance service, street sweeping, and maintenance of median strips were better handled by public employees.
67. You couldn't bear the thought of a chit of a girl sweeping in and scooping the jackpot.
68. State officials say the changes, which were included in the sweeping welfare overhaul law approved by the Legislature and Gov.
69. The greenkeepers were already sweeping the dew off the greens with elongated poles - the final polish to an immaculately groomed course.
70. This is a sweeping statement which makes little obvious sense on first reading(http://sentencedict.com), so let us dissect it more carefully.
71. He found sweeping the floor too boring and manoeuvred himself into a role making electrical control panels.
72. He didn't speak as he led her through a stone-floored hallway to a sweeping staircase.
73. Quietly, slowly and significantly, sustainable agriculture is sweeping the farming systems of the world.
74. But now a new outlook is sweeping large segments of the academic community.
75. There were a few people around, polishing and sweeping, and maybe spreading incense for all I knew.
76. Sweeping thou-shalt-not rules also overlook the different costs of complying.
77. However, the strong current carried her away, sweeping her over a weir where the boat overturned.
78. You try to thumb a lift from the cars as they approach from either direction, sweeping you with their headlights.
79. A small revolving brush on the front was sweeping dust into a slot.
80. Clinton, sweeping smoothly over the recent nastiness, this week presented his friend as the visionary of a new Middle East.
81. Departmental localism paralyzes our capacity to apprehend a sweeping panorama.
82. He got a job sweeping out a saloon and was allowed to sleep in the carriage house behind it.
83. The road climbed, kinked back on itself and started a sweeping curve around a nearly bare hill.
84. River ice in springtime, breaking, a force of nature coming alive, rising, sweeping everything before it.
85. The whole of Centaurus is very rich, and well worth sweeping with a low magnification.
86. To be applied to everything from religious observance to sweeping the kitchen floor.
87. The concept of a north-south divide was always too simplistic and sweeping.
88. Economic reforms On Nov. 16 sweeping reforms were announced in a step towards a free-market economy.
89. She was sweeping out the yard while Bella cooked the lunch and sang to the baby.
90. While the keen amateurs struggle with maggots and nets on the bank ... these professionals cruise by sweeping up.
More similar words: weeping, creeping, sleeping, housekeeping, sleeping bag, in keeping with, sleeping partner, out of keeping with, sweep, let sleeping dogs lie, sweep up, keep in, keep in mind, keep in touch, deep in thought, keep in touch with, sweet, sweetly, sweeten, weep, semisweet, sweetener, sweetness, bittersweet, short and sweet, sheepish, sleepily, sheepishly, step in, repine.