Sentence examples for sweep off from inspiring English sources

My first job is to sweep off the docks.

I'm a firm believer that you sweep off your own porch first".

TL was told by his African department head (who admired Amin) that he had no right to sweep off to Britain when his own country needed science graduates.

People here admire much about America and welcomed me into their homes, but there is also anger that the tear gas shells that they sweep off the streets each morning are made by a Pennsylvania company, NonLethal Technologies.

After Odile and Siegfried first meet, they sweep off together into the wings, but Ms. Mearns pauses in an imperious arabesque so suspenseful that it makes you impatient for her return.

The vices of mankind are active and able ministers of depopulation...but should they fail in this war of extermination, sickly seasons, epidemic, pestilence and plague advance in terrific array, and sweep off their thousands and ten thousands.

It was too dark in these storage places to see well, but a man could run his hand over these piles of meat and sweep off handfuls of the dried dung of rats.

Bell had made 40 when he was hit on the pad trying to sweep off-spinner Nathan McCullum, who persuaded his captain and brother to call for a review, but the impact was outside the line of off-stump.

Rogers was particularly harsh on Tim Linley and Zander de Bruyn before he was bowled trying to sweep off-spinner Gareth Batty to end an innings which in total lasted more than seven hours and contained 20 fours and two sixes from 307 balls.

He was bowled through his legs after yorking himself in an attempt to play a reverse-sweep off Joel Paris.

"I was unfortunate to have hit the ball into my helmet," he said after being caught at short leg after top-edging a paddle-sweep off Australia's off-spinner Nathan Hauritz to depart for 69.