Sentence examples for attempting to sweep from inspiring English sources

Ben Pynt from Humanitarian Research Partners said the government was simply attempting to sweep torture allegations "under the rug".

No. 1 Brazil was attempting to sweep the indoor volleyball titles after its women's team beat the United States in Saturday's final at Earls Court.

Moeen now produced his second classy half-century of the game but lost Tom Fell cheaply before himself going lbw, attempting to sweep Batty.

Abbott has used his first year in power to negate this image as a climate change denier, not so much by aggressively supporting the overwhelming science, but by attempting to sweep the issue off the agenda entirely.

Mr Owen's book provides a sharp look at the tyrannies the Arab spring is attempting to sweep away.As for Bashar, we now know that his inheritance was blood and tears.

In a way though it was to Vince's credit that it was Root who cracked first, attempting to sweep Yasir Shah out of the rough and getting a gentle top edge to short fine leg.

Yes, there was just a slight underedge as he attempted to sweep.

He attempted to sweep Mark Craig, the off-spinner, who bowled much better than at Lord's, and he was given out lbw after a review.

His book attempts to sweep away the fatuous ambition of college today, but it falls back on another, less cohesive set of myths.

Later, when 147, he attempted to sweep Zulfiqar again, top edged, only for a substitute fielder, Fawad Alam, to drop the catch at square leg.

He had made 44 when he attempted to sweep Yasir, the ball ballooning from pad to short leg, who completed a diving catch.