Sentence examples for sweep things from inspiring English sources

"We don't sweep things under the carpet.

We all sweep things under the carpet".

There's no excuse for permitting a system to allow commanders to sweep things under the rug and allow threats of retaliation.

"She alone recognizes that atonement is necessary," while the others — the guilt-ridden Klytämnestra and Elektra's sister, Chrysothemis, who longs for a normal life — "sweep things under the carpet".

Megabyzus contends, on the other hand, that democracy is a kind of mob rule, and "there is nothing more stupid or given to brutality … the approach of the general populace is that of a river swollen with winter rain: they rush blindly forward and sweep things before them".

"We're not going to sweep things under the rug.

In England there was a no-blame/excuse culture where you swept things under the carpet," said one player.

He was dancing on rooftops, that chimney sweep thing.

Let's not go back to the days when there was a conspiracy of silence among men to sweep these things under the rug.

(At the end of a day, he would often sweep the things on his desk — newspaper clippings, old letters, half a sandwich — into a carton, label it "T.C.," for time capsule, date it, and store it).

(At the end of a day, he would often sweep the things on his desk newspaper clippings, old letters, half a sandwich into a carton, label it "T.C.," for time capsule, date it, and store it).