Sentence examples for sweep periodically from inspiring English sources

From its location, on the dusty outskirts of Darfur's largest town, Nyala, one may surmise it refers to the blinding haboob dust-storms that sweep periodically across much of Sudan.

But its location, on the dusty outskirts of Darfur's largest town, Nyala, makes the reference to the blinding haboob dust-storms that sweep periodically across much of Sudan somehow appropriate.

The state had been conducting sweeps periodically for the last 12 years, but in 1998 tax collectors began working with individual towns.

And it's not easy to stay here in this liminal state; it requires intense effort, even manic singleness of mind to resist the angels that sweep through periodically to lure souls on to the level beyond.

The kitchen is open to view, and it's fun to watch the pie makers pat down the dough and maneuver the long-handled wooden paddles and copper brooms (the farina that dusts the bottom of the pies turns to ash and must be swept away periodically).

The dancers periodically sweep across the stage as one, just as the lights sweep overhead like the advancing bar of a copy machine.

Andy Warhol, "straddling the border between eccentricity and pathology," the authors write, would periodically sweep everything — cash, artwork, apple cores — off his desk and into a cardboard box.

The federal government says that it is safe, and many experts believe that it could reduce or even eliminate the food scares that periodically sweep through American society.

This is probably how almost all the pandemic strains that periodically sweep the world first arise... Since the flu is always changing, the World Health Organization has had to set up a far-flung international surveillance network.

Some in the government believe the depleted grasslands may be contributing to the dust storms that periodically sweep across the northern steppes and then flow down toward big cities like Beijing.

Aimed squarely at getting dancefloors moving, the genre is known for the dance crazes that periodically sweep it, among them the Gully Creeper performed by the sprinter Usain Bolt following his 2008 Olympic victories.