They knew that if they could hold the Giants even, it would be something; if they could take three out of four they would be forgiven; while if they could make a clean sweep of the series they would "own the town.
With the Phillies, however, the Pirates had made a clean sweep of the four games.
He went out in three surges, making a clean sweep of a boat, which turned bottom up and sank in the darkening troughs alongside.
If they were beaten in this round the chances were there would be a clean sweep to crown the efforts of those who were working so hard for home protection in Oakvale.
Perhaps he's realized, that he was doing something that would grieve his mother, and so made a clean sweep of things.
We'll make a clean sweep of all those humbugging Deputies and Ministers!
We must make a clean sweep of everything," Charvet would curtly say, as though he were delivering a blow with a cleaver.
One evening, Logre, after indulging in wilder outbursts than usual, banged his fist upon the table, declaring that if they were men they would make a clean sweep of the Government.
In 1810 the Federalists controlled the Assembly which chose the council; and they enjoyed a "clean sweep" as keenly as had the contending Republican factions.
In the "clean sweep" of office-holders that followed, Tallmadge went back to the United States Senate, and Weed took from Croswell the office of public printer.
A Lewis Council of Appointment made a clean sweep of the Governor's enemies and of DeWitt Clinton's friends.
Then he took a palette-knife, made a clean sweep of much previous labor and began again.
You anarchists should make it clear that you are perfectly determined to make a clean sweep of the whole social creation.
You plan the future, you lose yourselves in reveries of economical systems derived from what is; whereas what’s wanted is a clean sweep and a clear start for a new conception of life.
I shouldn’t wonder if it weren’t one of your detonators that made a clean sweep of the man in the park.
And in the month of March following, in one year and in two campaigns, he brings us within sight of Vienna; we had made a clean sweep of them.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clean sweep" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
