Sentence examples for curious sweep from inspiring English sources

"I believe that marriage has been defined the same way for literally thousands of years by virtually every civilization in history and that marriage is, by its definition, a relationship between a man and woman," he said earlier this year — a statement of curious sweep, given his religious ancestry.

A curious phenomenon swept the frigid streets of New York City today, where temperatures plummeted to 8 degrees: people looked where they were going.

"The last I saw of him", he wrote, "was running across the open downs with his net unfurled...making curious little sweeps and lunges as he pursued his prey".Mr Newby was often asked why he loved to travel.

By the late nineteen-eighties, as the sounds and styles of hip-hop pervaded youth culture, budding stars jostled for position, and a curious internal debate swept the tristate area — where exactly had it begun?

The governors have been swept away and a curious divided structure, unlike anything else in corporate Britain, has been put in its place - and it shows.

That leaves two leading contenders that have sweep, ambition and big ideas: "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button".

My approach had always been more of a woozy supermarket sweep, and it meant I'd built up a curious one-track miscellany.

But it is a simply fantastic song – one that stands the test of time long after that curious mid-decade phase of dodgy genre-melding experimentation was swept away by punk's merciless anti-music.

To provide a rough idea, though, he mounted a stone wall here and swept his hand in the general direction of a curious cow and the hoof-pocked pastures beyond.

The curious part is why the Athletics did not mention the team's history of sweeps before that.

Quite possibly the most un-magaziney thing that ever happened to magazines is the digital archive, as curious a collection of what was as jars of sharks' teeth or boxes of hair swept from the barbershop floor.