Sentence examples for might sweep from inspiring English sources

You never know when a tidal wave might sweep you out to sea.

Some of the justices seemed concerned about how broadly such a ruling might sweep.

The sea might sweep up on the shore again in a sudden aggressive embrace.

For a moment in 1998 it seemed as if a people-power movement might sweep him to office.

If it moved too slowly or was pinned down, it might sweep the region bare and starve.

The army aborted the country's first multi-party parliamentary election in 1992 for fear that Islamists might sweep the board.

Should it fail to cross the threshold of 10% of the vote needed to enter parliament, AK might then sweep up most of the seats in the mainly Kurdish south-east.

Mr. Kostunica rode to power on a tidal wave of Serbian rage at the Milosevic regime, and this wave might well sweep him away if he allows Mr. Milosevic to retire gracefully.

In an article for the Spectator, Hannan wrote: "It is theoretically conceivable that, if he got nothing from the EU, he might pivot, sweep the country and lead Britain to a prosperous global future [outside the EU].

He is not, for instance, in favour of tearing down the Berlin Wall altogether, arguing that a plague of drugs and AIDS might then sweep into East Germany.Mr Modrow was this week putting together a new government, aiming to include in it some representatives of newly assertive parties like the Liberal Democrats, which hitherto have been mere appendages of the communist party.

They also reasoned that the complicated penis ornaments might help sweep away other males' sperm during mating.