Sentence examples for have swept back and forth from inspiring English sources
As long as there has been an earth, the moving masses of air that we call winds have swept back and forth across its surface.
On the Ukrainian-Slovakian border, a region across which the borders of empires have swept back and forth like windscreen wipers, I met office assistants who were fluent in Ukrainian, Slovakian, Hungarian and Russian as well as German or English; nobody found this remarkable.
I wrote afterward, "The whole town looked as though a tornado had swept back and forth over it for a week -- but this was not the work of mother nature".
It was, and remains, one of the most chilling things I've ever seen: Whole neighborhoods, the size of four football fields, looked as though a tornado had swept back and forth over them for a week — but this was not the work of Mother Nature.
The rest of the half was exciting but also undeniably desperate as long passages of play swept back and forth: when England had a couple of half-breaks by Mike Brown on the left wing they went unfinished.
Dredgers sweep back and forth, creating clam shell patterns in the sand that are clearly visible by satellite.
Wild galloping charges sweep back and forth across the plain as riders try to wrest the carcass from one another.
"John Henry Days" sweeps back and forth between characters and voices and eras to strike the universal theme of man versus machine.
