Sentence examples for sweeping in from from inspiring English sources

After an air campaign on Friday, the north's ground forces staged a full-scale invasion of Abyei on Saturday night, with artillery, dozens of tanks and thousands of soldiers sweeping in from several directions.

Bend's appealingly dry climate (it lies east of the Cascade Mountains, which catch most of the rain clouds sweeping in from the Pacific), its small-town feel and its mix of leisure activities (skiing, golf, tennis, mountain-biking) have made it a magnet for California residents fed up with traffic.

A sandstorm sweeping in from the mainland aggravated the situation March 22.

But a wind sweeping in from nowhere blows his white words back and back into the past.

Tim Albery is standing on the shingle of Aldeburgh beach, bracing himself against the stiff north-easterly wind sweeping in from the sea.

As a result of the powerful winds sweeping in from the western plains, the pine trees on Georgian Bay bend permanently to the east.

What is clear is that the poachers have been sweeping in on horseback from Chad or Sudan.

He pulled hard on the restaurant door, forcing it open, and stumbled with his tattered flowers into the dark realm between the door and the velvet drapes that had been hung to keep the cold from sweeping in over diners at the front of the room.

It made me realise that maybe I too could become a property tycoon one day, sweeping in to snatch cash from the shaking hands of my fearful, cowering tenants.

When the I-V curves of the device were measured in reducing atmosphere (H2/Ar), the rectifying property was not obtained by sweeping in the large voltage range (from − 3 to 3 V) as shown in Additional file 2: Figure S2(a).

Since the monsoon began in June, sweeping south from Assam in the north-east, more than 400 have died and 5m have been affected in India.