Sentence examples for sweeping understatement from inspiring English sources

To call Mr. Kelleher's ascent among Republicans improbable would be a sweeping understatement, even to him.

Sweeping down gesture.

"It is so sweeping.

Anger is sweeping America.

Albany needs sweeping change.

Probably nothing sweeping.

CUE sweeping strings.

The view is sweeping.

Featuring an ivory silk Chantilly lace-appliquéd bodice, sweeping silk gazar skirts, a high lace collar and long, narrow, lace sleeves, and with a train measuring a relatively restrained eight feet long, it was, at first sight, the height of understatement, whispering of Austerity Britain and, quite touchingly, Queen Elizabeth II's own Norman Hartnell-designed wedding garb.

"It is sweeping your movement.

TORONTO — The charges are sweeping.