Sentence examples for it sweeps over from inspiring English sources
China's growing prosperity does not course through its society, it sweeps over it, obliterating evidence of an earlier, poorer era.China keeps detailed statistics on the stuff it adds to the skyline.
So it won't be as much of an event as it used to be, but it will, as presenter Kate Humble explained, allow the programme to "reflect the whole journey of autumn as it sweeps over Great Britain".
It sweeps over great swaths of China, from the north, where wild Dandong silk (more durable than the cultivated kind) is harvested, to a bankrupt rug factory near Hangzhou that the artists heroically revived, to Hong Kong, where they ended up settling, remarkably, for eight and a half years.
Depending on which side the batter is on, from a batter's view it will either look like the pitch will hit the batter then move over the plate, or look like a ball far outside until it sweeps over the plate towards them.
Mark Haddon - also in the running for a Costa - takes up the water imagery, and the tide of words, with a sex scene from A Spot of Bother which includes: "And it swept over her like surf sweeping over sand then falling back and sweeping up over the sand again and falling back.
It swept over national frontiers, and in 1804 the French were reported to be passionately in love with this light, gliding dance.
It packed winds of up to 145 mph when it swept over Haiti on Tuesday and then hit Cuba and the Bahamas.
This twister did serious damage as it swept over resorts, homes and condo buildings on Okaloosa Island at the beginning of the video.
In Sheffield, the tens of thousands who were dumped from the steel industry within a matter of months hadn't even considered unemployment until it swept over them.
I stood, concentrating on the baby's cry as it swept over me in waves, until at last I could see the corridor leading away into the darkness.
The winds at the eye wall of the hurricane were about 110 miles per hour, but it was the storm's size that made it dangerous, causing 50-foot waves as it swept over shallow gulf waters.
