Sentence examples for swept from inspiring English sources

In Iowa, rescue crews were searching for 17-year-old Logan Blake, who was swept away in a Cedar Rapids storm drain Monday night.

Carswell's success had led to comparisons with the SDP / Liberal Alliance which swept to a series of byelection successes in the early 1980s.

After the protest movement that swept the capital in 2011-12, exthoughtught was paid to the idea of what to do with the movement and its most charismatic leader, Alexei Navalny, a Muscovite who said he wanted to stand for mayor.

In the biggest upset in the men's draw so far, the Frenchman swept to victory on a tide of local sentiment, Tsonga battering his way to a quarter-final appointment with Kei Nishikori, the world No5.

The fortress wasn't just swept away – the hill it sat on went, too.

I wanted to just let myself be swept up in it.

They swept forward from all angles to make Argentina 2010 look like Brazil 2014.

Labour was defeated from the left in Scotland, where a party standing on a progressive anti-austerity platform swept the board.

Like a freak storm, the eurozone crisis has swept over this land, leaving despair and destruction in its wake: almost no household has not felt the effects of wage and pension cuts (slashed by an average 40%), soaring taxes and unemployment that at 26.7% is the highest in the EU and unprecedented in Greece's post-war history.

But Jonathas restored Elche's lead when he beat Rayo's central defenders and swept the ball home.

So I prefer this place" – his arm swept in the filthy vista of the rubbish tip – "to my farm".