Tis nothing--a passing, chilly touch that sweeps away the world!
The wind favors us, and the tide sweeps forward--forward!
Miss Haye was silent, and the old man's brush made long sweeps back and forward over the shining gunwale.
Who sweeps a room as for thy laws, "'Makes that and th' action fine.
The necessary and sufficient condition is that the razor must be worked in little sweeps over the stone, and pressed against the latter by little more than its own weight, and the grinding must be regular.
The tool is carried in small circular sweeps round and round the lens, so that the centre of the tool describes a many-looped curve on the lens surface.
There is a slight tendency to polish most at the edges; but if the sweeps are of the right shape and size, this may be corrected approximately.
Every fifty sweeps or so the tool should be simply ground backwards and forwards along a diameter of the lens surface.
We did climb the stair of the cathedral of Notre Dame de Puy, which sweeps upward in broad majesty, like a ladder to heaven.
It comes, and, glancing terror down, Sweepsthrough the bosom of the town.
Around her, spotted as a leopard skin, She draws her cloak of whin, And through the dark hills sweeps dusk's last red glare Wild on her hair.
And suddenly a shadow sweeps Around, and in its darkening deeps.
The wind sweepsaway the flowers and leaves; but the seeds remain.
It shows us that a Roman education, while it enlarges the view and sweeps away local prejudices, yet leaves untouched the salient points of national character.
To the world's ridge, and sweeps me off like rubbish?
Then a shining glory cloud sweeps down out of the blue, and now they see Him no more.
A remarkable campaign of preaching starts up and sweeps everything before it.
The man behind the counter-the man of savage face, has filled the maniac's bottle, which he pushes toward her with one hand, as with the other he sweeps her coin into a drawer.
Mr. Snivel, looking on unmoved, as the man of the moody face declares a blank, and again sweeps the money into his heap.
Then some twenty sweeps were shot out from her wooden sides, and like a gigantic caterpillar she came crawling towards her prize.
Then, plunging on in her course, she bore down upon the large prahu which had led the attack upon those who had been arrested by the boom, and ere the latter could be moved aside by means of her sweeps the schooner was upon her.
For an instant they hesitated, and then with shrill cries of fright they plunged into the river, and went clambering into their own ship by means of the sweeps which hung overboard.
I sent him to her home, and he trod the forest paths as the sunshine sweepsfrom wave-crest to wave-crest in the brook that hurries on, leaving the sound of peace in its murmurs.
It includes that; for a man lifted to a height is safe from the flood that sweeps through the valley, or from the enemies that ravage the plain.
A rush of emotion sweeps over him, and he breaks into a passion of vowed loyalty to the mother city.
It is in the "Great Basin," and the south wind is the broom that sweeps it clean.
Fresh as the grass our bodies stand, And flourish bright and gay; A blasting wind sweeps o'er the land, And fades the grass away.
There sweeps no desolating wind Across that calm, serene abode; The wanderer there a home may find, Within the paradise of God.
His voice sublime is heard afar; In distant peals it dies; He binds the whirlwinds to his car, And sweeps the howling skies.
O Sextant of the meetin house, wich sweeps And dusts, or is supposed to!
I hear, I feel how the eternal World Spirit sweeps all the strings of the terrible harp with constraining fingers, how all the most diverse forms are born of his playing and speed throughout nature upon spirit wings.
Afterwards I shall show how this reaction was met by a breeze of liberalism blowing from the eighteenth century, which swells into a gale and sweeps away all opposition.
One long fine curve sweeps along the right arm, is continued down the left arm, and is carried to completion in the left leg and foot.
The counter curve starts under the right shoulder, and sweeps down the right side and leg.
Their flight is swift and more direct than that of terns; they fly in compact flocks, in long sweeps over the water, feeding by dropping their long, thin mandible beneath the surface and gathering in everything edible that comes in their path.
Not in civil strife Your blows shall fall -- the battle of to-day Sweeps from the earth the enemies of Rome.
Eagles and standards wave above his head, And broad the march that sweeps across the land.
She looks at him with utter scorn; sweeps across to the couch; and sits down imperially.
She flings it on the table and sweeps back past Charteris, exclaiming contemptuously) You fool!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sweeps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
