sweep
Example Sentences
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A home court sweep is off the table.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
He was in the running against Nathan Lane in the season’s most talk-about show’s “Death of a Salesman,” and many bets were surely placed on the latter to sweep.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
"But Korea had the courage to look what it had done straight in the eye" while "Denmark prefers to sweep everything under the rug," he said.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
This process creates tightly focused bursts of radiation that sweep through space.
From Science Daily • Jun. 2, 2026
She sat against the clay wall as far from the entrance as she could manage and watched the dense sheets of water sweep past.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Vocabulary lists containing sweep
"The Vietnam Wars" by Tod Olson
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