sweepy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of sweepy
Example Sentences
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“Then the breaking ball gets sweepy, the fastball is inconsistent.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2022
The police filmed all this, using sweepy drone shots and a little Bollywood magic.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2020
But at last I got it done, and Rowley stood up with rather a red face from tacking the sweepy, lacey thing that had come undone.
From The Girls and I A Veracious History by Mrs. Molesworth
Cf. the posthumous fragment by Gray on Education and Government, 48: "And where the deluge burst with sweepy sway."
From Select Poems of Thomas Gray by Robert Carruthers
The day was still grey, with sweepy rain-clouds on the sea—gruesome, objectionable.
From The Lost Girl by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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