Example Sentences

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Volunteers have been sweeping the runway of the main airport to allow planes to land.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2022

In recent days Vizcarra described Peru’s justice system as having “collapsed” and expressed his support for anti-corruption demonstrations that have been sweeping the country.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2018

Just follow #MeToo to understand that organizations large and small have been sweeping such behavior under the rug and blaming the victims for decades.

From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2017

The rhetoric may have been sweeping, the scheduling startlingly ad hoc and the pace unusually hectic.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2017

No. 3 column should by this time have been sweeping out towards Hill Q along the whole ridge of the mountain, but it was nowhere to be seen.

From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) by Parrott, James Edward