Sentence examples for sweeping gently from inspiring English sources

But it is also the perfect place just to read a novel — by the fire, in the quiet, with no more than the sibilant sea in the background, and the high Pacific winds sweeping gently over the trees.

— The craggy coast of the Long Island Sound breaks for a grassy slope sweeping gently into a powdery beach and a clearing overtaken by a sprawling old hospital, where it looks as though humanity has surrendered, allowing nature to reclaim its turf.

Apply facial cleansing scrub using an upwards, circular sweeping; gently massaging into the skin.

A bardic melody unfolds, and the violins add a downward-sweeping, gently sobbing pattern.

"Simply breathtaking, its proportions and gently sweeping curves are wonderfully representative of France's prewar design themes".

My father collected flies for it; he had a way of gently sweeping the air with his open hand and then closing it on the insects.

"No matter what they tell you – women, we are always alone". That's a cry that echoes through writer/director Alfonso Cuarón's gently sweeping, awards-tipped epic, his first Mexican-based movie since 2001's Y Tu Mamá También.

When Bill Shaffer, an architect in Westport, renovated his house to incorporate an office, he also added a gently sweeping, flat-arch wall made from three kinds of granite fieldstone to the new front of his house.

The Hour of Bewilderbeast arrived in June 2000, an odd junction in rock music: Britpop had become bloated, rich and lazy, and as it reluctantly handed the baton over to the shambolic indie-pop stars and garage-rock revivalists – the Strokes and the Libertines – who skulked on the horizon, there was a new acoustic movement gently sweeping the UK.

During your visit you may spot the groundskeeper watering the plants and gently sweeping the stairs – his family has been caring for the temple for more than 20 generations.

Supply gently sweeping away newly fallen leaves.