Sentence examples for sweeps like from inspiring English sources

The actor, who starred as Bert in the Disney classic alongside Julie Andrews, was at The Grove when a flash mob (made up of dancers dressed as chimney sweeps, like Bert) began performing by the fountain in the mall's lower level.

American generals also hope to keep the rebels off-balance, with persistent sweeps like the one last month in the countryside south of Baghdad.

The idiom changes from person to person – soft and gracious, incisively graphic, densely concrete or painted in loose bravura sweeps like the modernism Goya presages.

"Sweeps" like the one at Hays, in which black-uniformed riot squads are said to have handcuffed, slapped and otherwise abused inmates, are apparently no longer being carried out.

Interviews with law enforcement officials, prosecutors and, perhaps the best authority on the subject — those arrested in previous sweeps, like Mr. Botti — reveal a culture of corruption so ingrained that it has become impossible to resist when the envelope appears.

He has shepherded sheep around this flagpole, to the sound of church bells; he has filmed the city's itinerant workers queuing in its shadow, as it sweeps like a sundial through the long day.

Chart-like data can be converted to a sweep-like format.

Thus, a sweep-like effect would be expected as the chromosome becomes established in a population, lowering variability within breakpoint regions (Navarro et al. 2000).

Thus, ω increases with increasing LD within each of the two groups and decreasing LD between the two groups (i.e., the larger the value of the statistic the more "sweep-like"' the underlying pattern).

The CLRT calculates the likelihood of the local site frequency spectrum (SFS) at a specific location in the genome under two models: 1) the background SFS calculated across the entire region and 2) a one-parameter model that induces a characteristic sweep-like skew in the background SFS.

The breathless, sweeps-like cable television coverage that greeted the former Texas congressman's first campaign events stunned and frustrated many Democratic operatives — particularly women — who viewed it as an example of the double standard at work in the historically diverse presidential field.