Sentence examples for sudden sweeping from inspiring English sources

A thick drizzle from the sky, like a curtain's sudden sweeping.

Dressed in black pants and a polo-neck top, she moves with sinuous intensity to Mr. McAleer's moody text ("ill omens are everywhere"), fusing staccato, mime-like gesture and twitchy flat-footed swivels with sudden sweeping plunges into deep arabesques, occasionally crashing into a mound of shredded paper.

First sentence: "A thick drizzle from the sky, like a curtain's sudden sweeping".

But New York -- driven by an urgent desire to lower rates and an abiding faith in the free market -- opted for sudden, sweeping change.

Yet a June 1 front-page article unfairly portrays a process that pursued sudden, sweeping changes and that cast aside warnings and the need for consumer protections.

The rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, also known as ISIS, has been geographically disorienting: it has made sudden, sweeping moves into Northern Iraq, threatened the Turkish border, and put out videos, shot in indeterminate stretches of desert, in which hostages are mocked and killed.

Although that flock was briefly scattered by a sudden shower sweeping across the Hudson, once the rain passed, it quickly regrouped.

As the chart above shows, the 2008 economic crisis looks a bit like a sudden storm sweeping across a pond; there were two smaller subsequent squalls but all eventually became calm again.

Leningrad Affair, (1948 50), in the history of the Soviet Union, a sudden and sweeping purge of Communist Party and government officials in Leningrad and the surrounding region.

Conservatives learned that even with a majority, sudden or sweeping change is often difficult to achieve.

During this initial bias sweeping, a sudden abrupt decrease in oxide conductance was observed, which is known as soft breakdown or electroforming process.