Sentence examples for sweeps of from inspiring English sources

Kamila Shamsie's new novel deals with vast sweeps of history.

"There are two sweeps of genocide in my family.

The grand sweeps of the past are maps of power.

I want sweeps of it, in my barnyard next year.

Six months later, they become vast sweeps of forsaken territory.

Inspectors make periodic sweeps of areas that are the most heavily traveled by pedestrians.

Besides the reservation requirement, Amtrak plans to conduct security sweeps of all trains before their departures.

Muslim groups have cautioned police against conducting random sweeps of Muslim neighborhoods.

Huge sweeps of straggly, undistinguished shrubs that grew unnoticed in unkempt fields are suddenly, gloriously, ornamental.

He explained this to us with wide sweeps of the flashlight.

XKeyscore seems to draw on the N.S.A.'s other databases and its sweeps of Internet traffic.