Sentence examples for sweep the table from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON — To hear Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey describe it, Democrats are going to sweep the table in the Senate races next year.

The conventional wisdom is that a candidate must do well enough in the contests that take place in January — starting with Iowa and New Hampshire — to roll into Feb. 5 with enough force to sweep the table.

They haven't swept the table, but it looks like they would".

But a rumour swept the table that there was a dog T-shirt in a bag with "a number in the 50s".

A few weeks before the election, Sylvia Manzano, a senior analyst at Latino Decisions, an independent polling firm, projected that Romney would not be able to win unless he somehow swept the table of battleground states.

But a rumor swept the table that there was a dog T-shirt in a bag with "a number in the 50s.' So various people have been posing with her 50-something numbered bag as a joke.

If my family sits down to dinner without potatoes, my father's plate may be full but his eyes sweep the cluttered table.

After the first course, a purée of butternut squash with orbs of finger lime, a bit of muscovado sugar, a flake of coconut and a sliver of Fresno pepper, all of which you suck from a glass tube, my guest and I were asked to sweep the leaves off the table.

The rapporteur from the ENVI Committee called this 'a deceitful attempt to sweep the text from the table' [ 19].

"It's kind of like a loss you want to sweep under the table.

Just lower the table and sweep the room.