Sentence examples for sweep lying from inspiring English sources

But you know that Steinbrenner, receiving the worst possible present on his 74th birthday, won't take the Mets' sweep lying down.

Little did we know that we were violating Section 153.01 of the New York City health code, which states that "no person shall litter, sweep, lay or throw any ashes, refuse or rubbish on any street or public space".

It was either stripped off and swept away or is lying under the hull, crushed and buried under sand which flowed back into the crater, partially refilling it.

Sleeps four, £655 a week in July/August, £615 low season, 01237 426289, sugarandloaf.com Private forest: POWYS Named after the birds that sweep overhead, Red Kite Barn lies in a private forest north of Builth Wells in mid-Wales, surrounded by rolling hills.

"Any paper left lying around was swept up," he said.

His description of the "rags of silver cloud spinning across the sky, and the sea of grey-green thornscrub lying off in sweeps and rising in terraces and the white dust streaming off the salt pans" drew me both to the place and in no small way to the profession of travel writing itself.

The Express Tribune newspaper visited Rawalpindi's Sharoon Colony where hundreds of homes were submerged: one resident saw his home swept away with the furniture lying in a nearby pond.

The strength of any narrative that sweeps across generations lies in the evocativeness of the people and the universality of their stories: what they've lived through tells us where we may be going.

She quickly skipped around where I'd been sitting and did a sweep for anything I might have left lying around, chuckling to herself.

Sweep the floor if you see crumbs lying about.

Inside the hospital, overflow patients draped in dirty red blankets were lying in the hallways as she swept by.