Sentence examples for had swept over from inspiring English sources
ROME — As night fell in Italy's Apennine Mountains on Thursday, prospects dimmed of finding survivors of an avalanche that had swept over a small resort hotel the previous night.
But all businesses were dark and silent today after officials recommended on Monday that residents evacuate in advance of the fire that had swept over a mountain and moved to about a mile from town.
After complex waves of conquest by peoples from the north and east had swept over the area, the Chinese again conquered it during the late 7th and early 8th centuries under the Tang dynasty (618 907), but it was always on the farthest frontier of Chinese control.
Only Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration can declare an official reason (it hasn't yet) but the airline said it went down while trying to land at the tail end of a typhoon that had swept over typhoon on July 23.
Within 18 hours, the meme had swept over Facebook and Reddit and Twitter, inspiring reproductions and an impassioned blog post on Detroit Jalopnik by local auto journalist Aaron Foley, who remarked that, "satire is indeed rooted in truth".
Since the April 2010 elections, a political tsunami has swept over the country.
OVER the past decade privatisation has been at the heart of the market reforms that have swept over Latin America.
As the recession has swept over states and cities, it has laid bare economic weakness and shoddy fiscal practices.
Slate is part of the wave of union-organizing that has swept over the digital-media industry over the past three years.
