sweeping
of wide range or scope.
moving or passing about over a wide area: a sweeping glance.
moving, driving, or passing steadily and forcibly on.
(of the outcome of a contest) decisive; overwhelming; complete: a sweeping victory.
Origin of sweeping
1Other words for sweeping
Other words from sweeping
- sweep·ing·ly, adverb
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How to use sweeping in a sentence
These sweeping observations are, disappointingly, the most thorough analysis Ehrlich provides on climate change as a whole.
What Gretel Ehrlich Gets Wrong About Climate Change | Erin Berger | February 8, 2021 | Outside OnlineThe big influencers on state privacy bills are Europe’s sweeping General Data Protection Regulation and California’s now-strengthened privacy law.
Cheat sheet: What to expect in state and federal privacy regulation in 2021 | Kate Kaye | February 1, 2021 | DigidayIt’s critical that advertisers take their exclusions seriously and understand what the implications of broad-sweeping exclusions can mean for their brands and their metrics.
Facebook testing brand safety topic exclusions for advertisers | Carolyn Lyden | January 29, 2021 | Search Engine LandThe sweeping social and economic transformation that scientists say is needed to attack the problem will require a global effort.
How to stop your house’s expensive drafts — and save the planet | Sarah Kaplan | January 27, 2021 | Washington PostThe distribution of funding for health care providers is just one example of complications with the sweeping $2 trillion CARES Act.
How the CARES Act Forgot America’s Most Vulnerable Hospitals | by Brianna Bailey, The Frontier | January 26, 2021 | ProPublica
Two years ago in Michigan, she oversaw AFP operations to help the Republican-controlled legislature pass sweeping anti-union laws.
The Next Phase of the Koch Brothers’ War on Unions | Carl Deal and Tia Lessin | December 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 1695, still under an imposed silence, she died in a plague sweeping the capital.
Sor Juana: Mexico’s Most Erotic Poet and Its Most Dangerous Nun | Katie Baker | November 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe classic film that opens with a tornado sweeping through a Kansas farm made its debut 75 years ago in 1939.
These tensions run throughout the conference, but also throughout the “mindfulness” movement that is now sweeping America.
As the Ebola epidemic began sweeping through the region, fear and mistrust of the health workers in West Point escalated.
"Yes, Alessandro," she answered faintly, the gusts sweeping her voice like a distant echo past him.
Ramona | Helen Hunt JacksonHe stood aside, and bending from the waist he made a sweeping gesture towards the door with the hand that held his hat.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael Sabatini“Yes; that would be indispensible,” said the baron, whose eyes were sweeping the room from corner to corner, fiercely and swiftly.
Checkmate | Joseph Sheridan Le FanuShe did shout for joy, as with a sweeping stroke or two she lifted her body to the surface of the water.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinThe wave of religious fanaticism sweeping over the land might recede as rapidly as it had risen.
The Red Year | Louis Tracy
British Dictionary definitions for sweeping
/ (ˈswiːpɪŋ) /
comprehensive and wide-ranging: sweeping reforms
indiscriminate or without reservations: sweeping statements
decisive or overwhelming: a sweeping victory
taking in a wide area: a sweeping glance
driving steadily onwards, esp over a large area: a sweeping attack
Derived forms of sweeping
- sweepingly, adverb
- sweepingness, noun
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