Sentence examples for sweeping off from inspiring English sources

Normally, the sweeping off of a tall hat would suggest elegance, but not here.

I love the area of Manhattanville — we used to park our car up there — the winds sweeping off the river, the old warehouse buildings, the elevated subway line.

But first the confounding 20-miles-an-hour winds sweeping off the nearby hills would have to die down to allow the droplets to coalesce.

Word of the attack came just as the early evening session closed and most of the leaders were sweeping off to dinner, so there was little reaction.

"What you can deliver from sweeping off a few crumbs from the European top table is never going to satisfy those whose actual agenda is not a little tweak here or a little tweak there.

Which is to say, sweeping off the porch, along with all the other humdrum habits that follow throughout the day, seems simply like some kind of material effort to unravel the day before, some sort of ceremony to sameness.

On some impulse, plain exuberance, I suppose, the fellow jumped up and caught hold of a branch, and a storm of luminous water came pouring down on the two of them, and they laughed and took off running, the girl sweeping water off her hair and her dress as if she were a little bit disgusted, but she wasn't.

Even in the best of circumstances, trying to keep content off the web is a lot like sweeping sand off a beach.

No need to get it all off; leaving a thin layer is fine and sweeping it off would make a lot of dust.

If you want to make the girl feel special right away and get closer to sweeping her off her feet, then you have to make her see that you don't just see her as any ordinary person.

Sweeping crumbs off the tablecloth I pondered how many BLTs I'd eaten on British trains.