sweep out
Example Sentences
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Every household, every culture has some new year’s practices, like cleaning the house beforehand so you don’t sweep out the new year’s luck with the trash after Jan. 1.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2023
Once outside the cell, chloride ions attract water that helps tiny, hair-like cilia sweep out mucus from the airways.
From Science Daily • Oct. 10, 2023
There are no jetties to sweep out the piling sediments, or buoys to mark a channel through the breakers.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 19, 2023
The new Domestic and Sexual Offences Unit - or Daso unit - represents an attempt to sweep out the dark corners of a force with a trust problem.
From BBC • Oct. 12, 2022
They were to sweep out and prepare the family cabin for the winter move.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
