Sentence examples for it swept through from inspiring English sources

The group transfixed the world with its ultraviolent ideology, as it swept through Syria and Iraq in a frenzy of bloodshed and destruction.

So the Earth itself is like a spaceprobe that has recorded its own journey as it swept through the galaxy on the coat tails of the Sun.

Isis declared an Islamic caliphate in regions under its control in Iraq and Syria after it swept through much of the Sunni Arab heartland north of Baghdad in June and then stormed minority Christian and Yazidi Kurdish areas.

Cheating was a known, somewhat accepted norm; little wonder that it swept through five separate schools.

The storm caused massive destruction and claimed thousands of lives as it swept through the Philippines.

The moon, the researchers said, was generating electrical currents as it swept through Jupiter's powerful field.

"The bad news is that it swept through Summerhaven," Mr. Morrison said.

It swept through all those ethnic communities that until the 1930s had been treated as not quite American.

It sweeps through the "exclusive economic zones" asserted under UNCLOS by Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam.

This happens when a new version of a gene confers such a survival advantage that it sweeps through the population.

If you throw a stick from the bridge it sweeps through one river, bouncing across the wide flat stones, the surprisingly clear white water, and into another, out of sight into the shade of trees.