Sentence examples for sort of sweep from inspiring English sources

If you look at the entire sort of sweep of Hillary Clinton's career, what Hillary Clinton is interested in has always just been meritocracy and professional achievement, which she usually expresses in these kind of feminist, you know, the sort of feminist vocabulary.

"The old council, which we sort of swept away, was complacent, paternalistic and patronising," he says.

It's like the Wizard of Oz analogy: I was in black and white and then a tornado came and sort of swept me off".

For one thing, of course, it was only a year after astronauts had landed on the moon, and we were sort of swept up by the strong interest in man in space and its parallel, man in the ocean.

Sort of swept under the rug.

We were at RCA with The Judds and they sort of swept everything, pretty much dominated the duo category.

Before I started the band, I never paid any attention to the lyrics, I was always sort of swept away by beautiful melodies.

It was a 17-page sequence where Core comes to the village, finds a dead body in a nearby shack, and then is sort of swept up in this siege taking place across the village.

This tidal wave of photographs created diffidence among immigrants, who began to feel like they were being taken advantage of, sort of 'you've taken my picture, but nothing's changing.' Before, people paid less attention to this problem, and sort of swept it under the rug: I had to struggle first and foremost to search out stories and contacts".

But thanks to unlikely instrumentation and the occasional girl-group harmony, Los Campesinos! achieved a sort of orchestral sweep; here was a band in which each component mattered.

In Faisalabad, when for a short period the hyperactive Younis Khan took over the Pakistan captaincy while Inzamam-ul-Haq was off the field, he reminded watchers of a competitor in a sort of supermarket sweep, where his job was to make as many changes to his field as he could in the space of a single over.