- present participle of sweep.
sweeping
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Leading the Cincinnati Symphony, conductor Kevin Miller relished the sweeping, Disneyesque optimism of the score.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Just up the sloped bank, Antonio Solano and Erick Torres were sweeping outside their tent, where they live under the Glendale Freeway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
After slamming into the Japanese islands and sweeping past Taiwan's northern tip, Bavi is expected to make landfall in eastern China over the weekend.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
It comes as an interim report by Sir Stephen Timms into Pip is expected to outline the need for sweeping reforms to the benefit system.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
During that turbulent final week of July 1943, William Faulkner was on the other side of the world in Hollywood, California, feverishly pulling together the screenplay for the sweeping wartime movie Battle Cry.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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In a statement Banksy jokes: "While the unauthorised Banksy shows might look like sweepings from my studio floor, CUT & RUN really is the actual sweepings from my studio floor."
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2023
It’s peanut sweepings, as Homer Simpson would say.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2022
But sweepings demands for a more equitable society were left for later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2020
“The paper of ‘A sketch of the viscera,’ c.1515–16, contains fragments of wood chips, hair, wool and insect parts, possibly sweepings from the mill floor,” explains the Royal Collection, in its statement.
From Fox News ● Jan. 29, 2019
Twisting the wet cloth around the mass of sweepings, Ranofer cast about for some way to change the subject.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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