Sentence examples for great sweep from inspiring English sources
The war ended with General Sherman's great sweep south, and here too the railways were crucial.
Surely in the great sweep of the world's cuisines there must be other options.
This is a vision of great sweep and imagination: comprehensive, prophetic, evangelical.
It's a fabulous spot: a great sweep of clean sand backed by cave-riddled cliffs.
He offered the great sweep, the great surge, the great rush of love.
Perhaps Benn's mind was too focused on the great sweep of history to know or care about these simmering rivalries.
Color blocks can also make a modernist statement, as in the great sweeps of cloth at Jil Sander.
Fortey, who was a senior paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London until his retirement in 2006, is comfortable with great sweeps of time.
EL MIRADOR, Guatemala — Great sweeps of Guatemalan rain forest, once the cradle of one of the world's great civilizations, are being razed to clear land for cattle-ranching drug barons.
In its wider, lower valley of Strathspey, it swings between great sweeps of terraces and finally enters the sea by a shifting mouth across a shingle spit between Buckie and Lossiemouth.
Mr. Cady made no little plans and conceived a massive complex similar to the first part, but in movie-style Romanesque, with great sweeps of pink granite dotted with turrets, tourelles and other castlelike features.
