sweep out
Example Sentences
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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
Shawn Fain, who took office in March after workers voted to sweep out most of the union’s old leadership, listed grievances with Stellantis, General Motors and Ford in a wide-ranging talk Friday with reporters.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 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
The real issue, Schrap says, is just that the shipping companies won’t take their empty containers back: “The ocean carriers need to come sweep out the empties.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2021
Kepler’s first two laws may seem a little remote and abstract: planets move in ellipses, and sweep out equal areas in equal times.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
