Sentence examples for doing a sweep of from inspiring English sources

An officer told me the authorities were doing a sweep of illegal immigrants.

Then he gave me a really big, rather more urgent, wave: he was doing a sweep of the top deck to warn us of fast-approaching low bridges, for which Germany's Main river is renowned.

Italian officials did a sweep of the Prato area, and discovered a great many unregistered mills.

Mr. Cuomo needs to do a sweep of the extraneous mandates before imposing a tax cap on local communities.

While there was no specific threat, Mr. Volpe said security officials did a sweep of the building as a precaution and found nothing.

Before ordering drinks, he said, he wanted to do a sweep of the room if any black people were around, he half-joked, he'd know them.

The agents walked him out of the library, two of them returning not long after in blue FBI jackets to do a sweep of the area where Ulbricht had been sitting.

A single user flagged hundreds of Facebook pages of drag queens (BI reports that a Secret user has claimed responsibility for this) for using fake names, and as part of standard operating procedure, Facebook did a sweep of the profiles without realizing the attack pattern against drag queens using drag names on their Facebook profiles.

The police officers asked the then-26-year-old if one of them could do a sweep of the premises.

Although a bomb-sniffing dog had done a sweep of the Rubbin' Buttz property that morning, it seemed White Appreciation Day was being celebrated without much fanfare or protest.

When officers conduct a "vertical patrol," they walk through and do a sweep of the hallways, stairwells, rooftops and landings, to ensure the building is safe and that no one is trespassing or engaging in criminal activity.