Wondering how to use Sweep in a sentence? Below are 20 example sentences from real English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as move or cover.

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Sweep in a sentence

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Sweep meaning

  1. To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
  2. To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
  3. To search (a place) methodically.

Synonyms of Sweep

move cover continue extend cleaner chimneysweep chimneysweeper ambit compass orbit reach range scope expanse slam

Example sentences (20)

Barca didn’t just sweep them last season, they are unblemished in the last five meetings with the Yellow Submarine.

McBrine brought up the hundred partnership off only 106 balls and brought up his half-century with a reverse sweep.

For engineered wood, a dust and a sweep regularly will help to reduce the possibility of damage occurring long-term.

A ping sweep is a network scanning technique used to identify which IP addresses map to live hosts on a network.

But with the Nets facing a sweep in Game 4 on Saturday afternoon, the lessons may not pay off until next season.

Even with Embiid sidelined with a sprained right kneeand suffered another ignominious first-round playoff sweep.

A band of low pressure is set to sweep across the North bringing chillier temperatures as winter comes early.

And, if there is a Democratic sweep in an upcoming election, the Democrats could have a three to two majority on the board.

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Kuldeep continues and Latham with a paddle sweep to get 3 as Rohit Sharma prevents it from trickling over the boundary ropes.

Minnesota is coming off a home-and-home sweep at the hands of the Vegas Golden Knights but had won five of six prior to that.

Nine suspects were rounded up in a sweep on Wednesday, with law enforcement still seeking 11 more people.

Following the sweep, Quinnipiac drops to 3-7 in conference play, as the Bobcats have now lost eight of their 11 games in April.

Insp Field said: “After we find a discarded knife, we go back to the area the day after with our metal detector and do a sweep.

Instead of painstakingly painting each plank of wood you can literally sweep the paint on, and the results are pretty flawless.

Murray averaged 30-plus points in the Western Conference finals, a 4-0 sweep of the Los Angeles Lakers.

Mike Baumann struck out two in the ninth to complete a two-game sweep over Baltimore’s regional rival.

But a playoff sweep is not the final word on a season that reset Baltimore’s relationship with and expectations for its ballclub.

Nora’s worst memory is of her birthday in June 2021, when she had to sweep shattered glass that fell from the greenhouse ceiling.

But come Nov. 1, when Mariah Carey defrosts, I sweep away the cobwebs and hang the Christmas lights.

Even the mayor himself here in Mogale City dons an overall every now and then to clean up a park, prune a tree, or sweep a street.

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Common combinations with sweep

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "sweep" in a sentence?
An example: "Barca didn’t just sweep them last season, they are unblemished in the last five meetings with the Yellow Submarine." This page contains 20 example sentences with the word "sweep" from real English texts.
What does "sweep" mean?
Sweep means: To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
What are synonyms of "sweep"?
Common synonyms of "sweep" include: move, cover, continue, extend, cleaner, chimneysweep, chimneysweeper, ambit. Plus 7 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "sweep" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 20 example sentences with "sweep", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.

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