sweepy

American  

[swee-pee] / ˈswi pi /

adjective

sweepier, sweepiest

1. sweeping.

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Etymology

Origin of sweepy

First recorded in 1690–1700; sweep ¹ + -y ¹

Example Sentences

“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

With broader sweepy base, in gather'd might Majestic, swelling to stupendous height, The mountain billow lifts its awful head, And, curving, breaks aloft with roarings dread.

From Poems, &c. (1790) Wherein It Is Attempted To Describe Certain Views Of Nature And Of Rustic Manners; And Also, To Point Out, In Some Instances, The Different Influence Which The Same Circumstances Produce On Different Characters by Baillie, Joanna

The expanded waters gather on the plain, They float the fields and overtop the grain; Then, rushing onward, with a sweepy sway, Bear flocks and folds and laboring hinds away.

From Mosaics of Grecian History by Willson, Marcius

The river's opening breast some upward plied, And some came gliding down the sweepy tide.

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de