Example Sentences

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The star’s nearness to us is only temporary—within tens of thousands of years, its trajectory will have swept it out of our solar system’s list of top five closest stars.

From Scientific American • Nov. 14, 2018

A lot of pain will have swept across the state by January.

From Washington Times • Oct. 27, 2015

By this week, when his odyssey comes to an end in Barbados, he will have swept through 20 countries, gathering raw material for the Administration's effort to reappraise U.S. policy in Latin America.

From Time Magazine Archive

It may be that if we tarry the fever will have swept him off.

From The Sign of the Red Cross by Everett-Green, Evelyn

My dear wife,—Before these lines reach you, grim death will have swept me off the stage of time.

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various