Sentence examples for sweeping events from inspiring English sources

I experience the sensation of "thriving" not so much because of grand visions and sweeping events, but more as an accumulation of micro-moments and choices I make every day.

McKibben responded with a deeply researched jeremiad, in which he set out to popularize the alarming and still largely unfamiliar facts about climate change and to sharpen awareness of what they implied for the future of the planet and humankind: Changes in our world which can affect us can happen in our lifetime not just changes like wars but bigger and more sweeping events.

Sweeping social events reinforced the positive view of male friendship.

Where the original Australian version of the show employs a classic TV reset button, sweeping the events of any given episode – arrests, murders, and so on – under the rug and into the past, Daly's adaptation finds Forrest's real life in tatters.

The tour returned to Riverside for the final race of the season where Richmond won his second race, sweeping both events at the track.

The three Americans were openly talking about sweeping this event after the United States trials.

He won three gold medals at the Athens Games in 2004, sweeping the backstroke events.

He won three gold medals at the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004, sweeping the backstroke events.

His speech surveyed the turbulent current events sweeping the region, country by country, and pledged that America would promote and support movements for reform.

Since sweeping both backstroke events in Athens, Peirsol has lost his 200 world title and world record to another American, Ryan Lochte.

And though Jones has been the world's dominant breaststroker throughout this four-year Olympic cycle, Soni, a 21-year-old from Plainsboro, N.J., peaked at the right time to keep Jones from sweeping the breaststroke events.