The phrase "a wide sweep" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a broad or extensive range or coverage of something, often in contexts like analysis, surveys, or physical movements.
Example: "The artist's latest exhibition offers a wide sweep of her work over the past decade, showcasing her evolution as a creator."
Alternatives: "a broad range" or "an extensive scope".
Appellant's argument here took a wide sweep.
The military had launched a wide sweep to capture the bombers, Turkish authorities said.
The Maastricht and Amsterdam treaties created and extended a de facto power of veto for the parliament across a wide sweep of law making.
"The city is so big that it's hard to tell the scale of that space," he said, indicating a wide sweep of river.
Houston Street just after demolition could have been London after the blitz: views show a wide sweep of bare lots, raw party walls and ghostly sidewalk outlines.
A wide sweep of white sand surrounded by boulders and pristine fynbos (the indigenous shrubland of the Cape), Sandy Bay is one of Cape Town's most unspoiled beaches.
Here Vogel has something in common with the late Stephen Jay Gould (and an even better grasp of his field to boot --a wide sweep of knowledge and the aboot --ao connect seemingly unrelated dots across it.
The may allow the marlin to make a wider sweep with its tail, generating greater thrust.
However, many activists believe the detentions are part of a wider sweep ahead of the world's first European Games, due to be held next summer in Baku.
Their strategy is a jazz horn sound derived from Ornette Coleman's unruly sax/trumpet harmonies, laid over the hooks and backbeats of rock – and here they do it with even more laid-back nonchalance than usual, and a wider sweep of sound effects.
Kert Davies of Greenpeace said: "The organisations eliminated in this latest rounds of cuts could be called the engine room of the climate sceptic industry, but if Rex Tillerson [head of ExxonMobil] is serious about his company shaking off this shameful legacy, he needs to make a wider sweep".
