sweeping
IPA: swˈipɪŋ
noun
- (countable) An instance of sweeping.
- (uncountable) The activity of sweeping.
adjective
- Wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things.
- Completely overwhelming.
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Examples of "sweeping" in Sentences
- The Celtics ended up sweeping the Bucks.
- The sentence was sweeping and simplistic.
- An incurable plague is sweeping the country.
- The critics called for sweeping changes to the team.
- The progressives played a huge role in sweeping Democrats into power.
- The example of the Prince of Wales has been largely instrumental in sweeping away the old restrictions.
- The girls 'father, Giuseppe De Vito, disappeared in 2006 when the RCMP issued a warrant for his arrest as part of what they called a sweeping crackdown on organized crime.
- The girls 'father, Giuseppe De Vito, has been missing since 2006 when the Mounties issued a warrant for his arrest as part of what they called a sweeping crackdown on organized crime.
- The girls 'father, Giuseppe De Vito, disappeared in 2006 after the RCMP issued a warrant for his arrest on drug charges as part of what they called a sweeping crackdown on organized crime.
- The government in July said it would set up a regulator outside of the ministry and in August, the previous minister, Banri Kaieda, fired the country's top energy bureaucrats in what he called "sweeping" changes.
- Our system of bicameralism, and the staggered elections for the Senate – were both designed to prevent a single big-bang election from resulting in sweeping changes (unlike a Parliamentary system, e.g., the U.K. after the 1945 election).
- If a moiety of sweeping the kennel from the Mews-gate to the Irish coffee-house opposite to it, could fetch a good price, and I was a witness once that it did, to an unfortunate beggar-woman, who was obliged by sickness to part with half of it; what might not a beggar expect, who had the _sweeping_ of the _Pont du Gard_; or a monk, who erected a confessional box near it for the benefit of _himself_, and the fouls of poor travellers?
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