Example Sentences

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If Ryan Gosling wins best actor, then La La Land really will be sweeping everything before it.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2017

I assure you, that no one will be sweeping the Reds this time around.

From The Guardian • Oct. 4, 2012

“To renew the ministry, there will be sweeping personnel changes,” Kaieda said.

From BusinessWeek • Aug. 4, 2011

By September, they will be sweeping like beneficent locusts across North Dakota into Manitoba.

From Time Magazine Archive

Next Sunday the patron At home will be keeping, And the young active hurlers The field will be sweeping.

From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)