Sentence examples for sweeping at from inspiring English sources

He hauls one from outside off across the gloves of Tendulkar and down past his legs, and Michael Atherton starts stalking about the reverse sweep, then saying "I don't think anyone should be reverse sweeping at this stage of the game".

Soon after Stokes was lbw for 85 sweeping at the persevering Shakib.

She gives the clash its purest form early in the book, when Marcus, on a bet, takes a team of British horses out on a chariot ride, "sweeping at full gallop round the mile-wide curve of the woodshore.

The pounding Mississippi River had burst a 150-foot-wide hole in a levee, sending water gushing along a new path toward this small city and sweeping at least one empty house off its foundation.

That dispute is now sweeping at dramatic speed out of more liberal states on the coasts where gay marriage is increasingly the norm, into more conservative states in the heartlands.

But an innings of 56 from 85 balls, which ended when he was also caught behind sweeping, at Senanayake, will have done nothing to convince those who doubt his suitability for this form of the game.

It was in that state that he took his first job at a newspaper, sweeping floors at The Price News Advocate.

THE bad news was not unexpected: sweeping cutbacks at the State University of New York at Albany, prompted by sweeping cutbacks in state aid.

At age 16 he started sweeping floors at a small aerospace parts machine shop owned by an old Swiss tool and die maker.

The Italian studies major sweeping aisles at Wal-Mart.

THIS week: Sweeping changes at Deutsche Bank and HSBC and Iceland's capital controls are lifted, delicately.