Sentence examples for in a sweeping from inspiring English sources

But a pair of brothers who were hit men botched the job, prosecutors said in a sweeping indictment yesterday.

The ordeal culminated in a sweeping Supreme Court ruling penned by Justice Louis Brandeis that set the stage for the Miranda warning many years later.

He snapped his fingers in a sweeping gesture, like a lounge singer, to indicate that he wanted a scene to be a fraction of a second shorter.

Details of those dealings were reported this summer in a sweeping U.S. Senate probe.

Cut to wide shot: Hurley, a tiny insignificant leather blip in a sweeping mountainous forest scape.

Do you like any of these?" I motioned with my hand in a sweeping gesture toward the wall with shoes.

Visibly pregnant (the newcomer is due next spring), she looked wonderfully fit in a sweeping dark gray silk hostess gown.

We perform the search in a sweeping manner, increasing the search radius each time the sweep fails to find the object.

This thinking resulted in a sweeping reorientation of political commitments.

But, in a sweeping amnesty in 1999, he was released.

In 1986 a sweeping tax reform eliminated many exemptions.