Sentence examples for ordered to sweep from inspiring English sources

Another, a former salesman, was ordered to sweep a parking lot when he was on light duty after car accident.

Furious was detached from the 1st CS and ordered to sweep along the 56th parallel as far as 4° East and to return before dark.

Considering it unlikely that the dead men had been alone, O'Donnell assessed that the remainder of a Viet Cong squad was located somewhere further along the track and he subsequently requested artillery fire to block any escape, while 2 Platoon was ordered to sweep forward.

The romantic in every reader yearns for a new order to sweep aside the impediments of the old.

Third Platoon gathered in the southernmost compounds, with orders to sweep north and clear the entire village.

Pierre is convinced that some kind of uprising will be needed in order to sweep away corruption and mismanagement at the highest levels in Petersburg.

A kind of spherical sequence is introduced in order to sweep all the surfaces of the sphere.

After all, commissions courts and investigators long ago established that various government agencies and officials fudged or withheld facts during World War II in order to sweep all people of Japanese descent — American-born citizens as well as immigrants — out of California and parts of three other Western states.

A handsome wolf enlists the aid of his shy but eloquent cousin in order to sweep a lady pig off her hooves in "Barnyard Madness With the Three Little Pigs," a down-home, cornfed, "Cyrano de Bergerac -meets-"The Three Little Pigs" musical romp for children at the Santa Monica Playhouse.

You want it flat because you are going to sweep across the sensor from one side to the next in about 3 to 4 passes, moving over about the width of the pad with each pass, in order to sweep the whole surface.

South Dakota was then assigned to escort the aircraft carrier as part of Task Force TFF) 16; joined by TF 17 soon after, the combined fleet now known as TF 61 was ordered to "make a sweep of the Santa Cruz Islands and then move southwest to block any Japanese forces approaching Guadalcanal".