Sentence examples for it has swept from inspiring English sources

"The tragedy of American civilization is that it has swept away WASP morality and put nothing in its place," Auchincloss wrote in a 1980 short story, "The Fabbri Tape".

As it has swept through corporate America, the Internet has brought along its infantry of young things, from hard-core programmers (any computer language learnt more than a decade ago is obsolete, as are many of those who learnt it) to the young generalists to whom thinking in web terms is second nature.

Instead, it has swept prostitution under the carpet".

On balance it has swept away barriers to internal trade and the free movement of people.

It has swept across the world killing at least 300 people and infecting thousands more.

"It has swept aside the pay review body's recommendations and ignored the union's call for a fair deal.

At its peak in the early 1970s it had swept 11% of the Yugoslav labor force into western Europe, and those workers sent home hard-money remittances that amounted to 30% of Yugoslavia's exports.

For instance, Nanosolar, which is developing novel techniques for making thin-film photovoltaic cells, announced in August it had swept up $300 million in additional funding, bringing its six-year start-up kitty to more than $500 million.

It had swept aside all proposals for mediation until events had gained irreversible momentum.

Everyone said that "Argo " was going to win — it had swept the Guild awards, whose members are probably all in the Academy — and everyone was right.

Rutgers entered the day in last place, one game behind the Pirates in the West Division, but held the tie breaker because it had swept the Pirates.